Soil organic carbon dynamics in a dryland cereal cropping system of the Loess Plateau under long-term nitrogen fertilizer applications

Plant and Soil

Volumn 353, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 321-332

  Guo, Shengli ^a,b   Wu, Jinshui ^c   Coleman, Kevin ^d   Zhu, Hanhua ^b   Li, Yong ^c   Liu, Wenzhao ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C input; Long term N fertilization; RothC; Soil aggregation; Soil organic carbon; Turnover time

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE SIZE; AGGREGATION; AGRICULTURAL EMISSION; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CEREAL; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DRYLAND FARMING; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FOOD SECURITY; ORGANIC CARBON; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SUSTAINABILITY; TOPSOIL; TURNOVER; WHEAT;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84858335061     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-011-1034-1     Document Type: Article

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