On the way towards conservation tillage-soil moisture and mineral nitrogen in a long-term field experiment in Germany

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 115-116, Issue , 2011, Pages 80-87

  Gruber, Sabine ^a   Möhring, Jens ^a   Claupein, Wilhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Leaching; NH4; No till; NO3; Soil disturbance; Soil water

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; CHISEL PLOUGH; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; CROP ROTATION; FERTILISATION; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GERMANY; MINERAL NITROGEN; MINERALISATION; NH4; NITRATE LEACHING; NITROGEN LEACHING; NITROGEN MINERALISATION; NO TILL; PLANT PROTECTION; SOIL DISTURBANCE; SOIL DISTURBANCES; SOIL MINERAL NITROGEN; SOIL TILLAGE; SOIL WATER; SOIL WATER CONTENT; TEMPERATE CLIMATE; TILLAGE SYSTEM; TILLAGE TREATMENT; WET SEASON;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; CLIMATOLOGY; CROPS; EXPERIMENTS; LEACHING; MINERALOGY; NITROGEN; SILICATE MINERALS; SOIL MOISTURE; VALUE ENGINEERING;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; CATCH CROP; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; CROP ROTATION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GRAVIMETRY; LEACHING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MINERAL; MINERALIZATION; MOISTURE CONTENT; PLOWING; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL NITROGEN;

GERMANY;

EID: 80052960721     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2011.07.001     Document Type: Article

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