Effects of terracing slope cropland on soil quality in Hilly Region of Loess Plateau

Nongye Gongcheng Xuebao/Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 310-316

  Xue, Sha ^a,b   Liu, Guobin ^a,b   Zhang, Chao ^a,b   Fan, Liangxin ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

Author keywords

Land consolidation; Loess hilly region; Soil quality; Terrace on slope cropland

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; FIRST YEAR; LAND CONSOLIDATION; LOESS HILLY REGION; LOESS PLATEAU; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; SOIL DISTURBANCES; SOIL EROSION; SOIL PHYSICAL PROPERTY; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL QUALITY INDEX; TERRACE ON SLOPE CROPLAND;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; EROSION; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); LANDFORMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SOILS;

EID: 79959767483     PISSN: 10026819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-6819.2011.04.054     Document Type: Article

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