Zone tillage impacts on organic carbon of a clay loam in southwestern Ontario

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1083-1089

  Shi, Xiuhuan ^a,b,c   Yang, Xueming ^a   Drury, Craig F ^a   Reynolds, W Daniel ^a   McLaughlin, Neil B ^d   Welacky, Tom W ^a   Zhang, Xiaoping ^b  

^a HARROW RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d OTTAWA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; CLAY LOAM SOILS; CLAY LOAMS; CORN (ZEA MAYS L.); CORN YIELDS; FINE-TEXTURED SOILS; HUMID CLIMATES; MOLDBOARD PLOWS; NO-TILL; ONTARIO; ONTARIO , CANADA; PENETRATION RESISTANCES; SOIL MASS; SOIL ORGANIC C; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL SURFACES; SUBSURFACE SOIL; SURFACE SOIL; TILLAGE IMPACTS; TILLAGE TREATMENT;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATOLOGY; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL MOISTURE;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY;

BULK DENSITY; CLAY LOAM; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT; TILLAGE;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 83055185450     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2010.0319     Document Type: Article

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