Tensile strength and organic carbon of soil aggregates under long-term no tillage in semiarid Aragon (NE Spain)

Geoderma

Volumn 189-190, Issue , 2012, Pages 423-430

  Blanco Moure, Nuria ^a   Angurel, Luis A ^b   Moret Fernández, David ^a   López, M Victoria ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aggregate strength; Conservation tillage; Dryland cereal farming; Rupture energy; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE STRENGTH; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; DRYLAND; RUPTURE ENERGY; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON;

AGGLOMERATION; AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRONOMY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; TENSILE STRENGTH; WATER RESOURCES;

AGGREGATES;

AGGREGATE SIZE; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CEREAL; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; DRYLAND FARMING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; ORGANIC CARBON; RUPTURE; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL STRUCTURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; ZERO TILLAGE;

ARAGON; SPAIN;

EID: 84865057425     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.05.015     Document Type: Article

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