Is mechanical soil aeration a strategy to alleviate soil compaction and decrease phosphorus and suspended sediment losses from irrigated and rain-fed cattle-grazed pastures?

Soil Use and Management

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 376-384

  Curran Cournane, F ^a,b   McDowell, R W ^a   Littlejohn, R P ^a   Houlbrooke, D J ^a   Condron, L M ^b  

^a INVERMAY AGRICULTURAL CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Eutrophication; Grazing; Soil aeration; Surface runoff; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AERATION; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; CATTLE; COMPACTION; EUTROPHICATION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GRAZING; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFILTRATION; INSTALLATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; MACROPORE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PASTURE; PHOSPHORUS; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SILTY LOAM; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL TYPE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TOPSOIL; WATER QUALITY;

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EID: 80052022271     PISSN: 02660032     EISSN: 14752743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-2743.2011.00345.x     Document Type: Article

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