Improvement of soil aggregate stability by repeated applications of organic amendments to a cultivated silty loam soil

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 382-389

  Annabi, M ^a,b,d   Le Bissonnais, Y ^c   Le Villio Poitrenaud, M ^b   Houot, S ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b Veolia Environnement Recherche et Innovation   (France)

^c UMR LISAH   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Aggregate stability; Carbon content; Cohesion; Compost; Long term field experiment; Manure

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE STABILITY; BIODEGRADATION; COHESION; COMPOST; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MANURE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SAMPLING; SILTY LOAM; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; WATER EROSION;

EID: 84155186603     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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