Nitrogen transformation rates and nutrient availability under conventional plough and conservation tillage

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 124, Issue , 2012, Pages 144-152

  Gomez Rey M X ^a,b   Couto Vazquez A ^a   Gonzalez Prieto S J ^a  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones Agrobiológicas de Galicia del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Gross N fluxes; Macro nutrients; Micro nutrients; Minimum tillage; Net N fluxes; No tillage

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOILS; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; GROSS N MINERALIZATION; HUMID REGIONS; ISOTOPE DILUTION TECHNIQUE; LONG-TERM CONSERVATION; MACRO-NUTRIENTS; MICRO-NUTRIENTS; MINIMUM TILLAGE; N TRANSFORMATION RATES; NITRIFYING ACTIVITY; NITROGEN TRANSFORMATIONS; NO TILLAGE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; SOIL CO; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL LAYER; TILLAGE PRACTICES; TILLAGE SYSTEM;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; CULTIVATION; ISOTOPES; LEACHING; MANGANESE; NITRIFICATION; SODIUM; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS;

NUTRIENTS;

AGRONOMY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSERVATION TILLAGE; CROP ROTATION; FORAGE; GRASS; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; IMMOBILIZATION; LEACHING; MAIZE; MINERALIZATION; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; ORGANIC CARBON; PLOWING; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; TRANSFORMATION;

ITALY;

LOLIUM MULTIFLORUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84862503027     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2012.05.010     Document Type: Article

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