The carbon footprint of maize production as affected by nitrogen fertilizer and maize-legume rotations

Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-31

  Ma, B L ^a   Liang, B C ^b   Biswas, Dilip K ^a   Morrison, Malcolm J ^a   McLaughlin, Neil B ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon footprint; Fertilizer; Greenhouse gas emission; Long term study; Maize; Nitrogen; Rotation

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP ROTATION; CROP YIELD; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; LEGUME; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MAIZE; MONOCULTURE; SOYBEAN;

NORTH AMERICA;

GLYCINE MAX; MEDICAGO SATIVA; TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84867097049     PISSN: 13851314     EISSN: 15730867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10705-012-9522-0     Document Type: Article

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