Effects of long-term cropping regimes on soil carbon sequestration and aggregate composition in rainfed farmland of Northeast China

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 118, Issue , 2012, Pages 132-138

  Kou, T J ^a,b   Zhu, P ^c   Huang, S ^d   Peng, X X ^d   Song, Z W ^a   Deng, A X ^a   Gao, H J ^c   Peng, C ^c   Zhang, W J ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b HENAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c JILIN ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Conservational farming; Cropping system; Cumulic Hapludoll; Food security; Soil quality

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATIONAL FARMING; CROPPING SYSTEMS; CUMULIC HAPLUDOLL; FOOD SECURITY; SOIL QUALITY;

AGGREGATES; AMINO ACIDS; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS; EXPERIMENTS; FARMS; FERTILIZERS; FOOD SUPPLY; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); MANURES; NITROGEN FIXATION; ORGANIC CARBON; ROTATION; SILT;

SOIL SURVEYS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CROP ROTATION; CROP YIELD; CROPPING PRACTICE; FOOD SECURITY; MAIZE; MANURE; MOLLISOL; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL QUALITY; SOYBEAN; TOPSOIL;

CHINA;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84155164902     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2011.10.018     Document Type: Article

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