Soil carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions during the growing season from temperate maize-soybean intercrops

Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 394-400

  Dyer, Lisa ^a   Oelbermann, Maren ^b   Echarte, Laura ^c  

^a ClimateCHECK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentine Pampa; Complex agroecosystems; Global warming; Legumes; Pearson product moment correlation; Soil moisture and temperature

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84861663906     PISSN: 14368730     EISSN: 15222624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jpln.201100167     Document Type: Article

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