Effects of contrasting soil management regimes on total and labile soil organic carbon fractions in a loess soil in China

Geoderma

Volumn 177-178, Issue , 2012, Pages 49-56

  Yang, Xueyun ^a   Ren, Weidong ^a   Sun, Benhua ^a   Zhang, Shulan ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Light fraction organic carbon; Long term experiment; Microbial biomass carbon; Permanganate oxidizable carbon; Soil particulate organic carbon

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS; CROPPING SYSTEMS; LABILE C FRACTIONS; LIGHT FRACTION; LOESS SOILS; LONG-TERM EXPERIMENT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MICROBIAL BIOMASS CARBON; MINERAL NUTRIENTS; NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT; ORGANIC AMENDMENTS; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; SENSITIVE INDICATOR; SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON POOLS; SOIL QUALITY; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

AGRONOMY; CARBON; EXPERIMENTS; FERTILIZERS; LAKES; MANURES; NUTRIENTS; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM;

SOILS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FRACTIONATION; NITROGEN; OXIDATION; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL QUALITY;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84862795902     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.01.033     Document Type: Article

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