Nitrogen dynamics and nutrient budgets in four orchard groundcover management systems

HortScience

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1184-1193

  Atucha, Amaya ^a   Merwin, Ian A ^a   Purohit, Chandra K ^b   Brown, Michael G ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Sutharon Ki Bari Guwar   (India)

Author keywords

Nitrate leaching; Nitrate runoff; Nutrient cycling; Orchard sustainability; Soil management

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051997292     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.46.8.1184     Document Type: Article

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