Ridge-furrow and plastic-mulching tillage enhances maize-soil interactions: Opportunities and challenges in a semiarid agroecosystem

Field Crops Research

Volumn 126, Issue , 2012, Pages 181-188

  Zhou, Li Min ^a   Jin, Sheng Li ^b   Liu, Chang An ^a   Xiong, You Cai ^a   Si, Jian Ting ^a   Li, Xiao Gang ^a   Gan, Yan Tai ^c   Li, Feng Min ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Agriculture Extension Service Center of Yuzhong County   (China)

^c AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Double ridges and furrows; Plastic film mulch; Semiarid Loess Plateau; Soil microbial biomass C; Soil nutrients; Soil organic C

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; BIOMASS; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; CROPPING PRACTICE; DRYLAND FARMING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MAIZE; MULCHING; PHOSPHORUS; PLASTIC; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SOWING; TILLAGE;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 82255195385     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2011.10.010     Document Type: Article

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