Agroforestry and grass buffer effects on soil quality parameters for grazed pasture and row-crop systems

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 125-132

  Paudel, Bodh R ^a   Udawatta, Ranjith P ^a   Anderson, Stephen H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Cottonwood; Depth effect; Soil enzyme activities; Soil nitrogen; Water stable aggregates

Indexed keywords

POPULUS;

EID: 79956060296     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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