Soil nitrogen and nitrogen-use efficiency under long-term no-till practice

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2251-2261

  Dalal, Ram C ^a,b   Wang, Weijin ^a   Allen, Diane E ^a   Reeves, Steven ^a   Menzies, Neal W ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY; CEREAL GRAINS; CROP RESIDUE; CROP RESIDUE MANAGEMENT; CROPPING SYSTEMS; ECOLOGICAL BENCHMARKS; GRASSLAND ECOSYSTEMS; HIGH RATE; HORDEUM VULGARE; LAND-USE CHANGE; LOW RATES; N FERTILIZATION; N FERTILIZERS; NITROGEN-USE EFFICIENCY; NO-TILL; REDUCED SOILS; ROOT BIOMASS; SOIL DISTURBANCES; SOIL NITROGEN; TILLAGE PRACTICES; VERTISOLS; WHEAT (TRITICUM AESTIVUM L.);

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURAL WASTES; CROPS; ECOSYSTEMS; EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BARLEY; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP RESIDUE; CROPPING PRACTICE; CULTIVATION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GRASSLAND; LAND USE CHANGE; NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL PROFILE; SUSTAINABILITY; VERTISOL; ZERO TILLAGE;

EID: 83055178173     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2010.0398     Document Type: Article

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