Effects of tillage on contents of organic carbon, nitrogen, water-stable aggregates and light fraction for four different long-term trials

Geoderma

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 368-377

  Andruschkewitsch, Rouven ^a   Geisseler, Daniel ^a   Koch, Heinz Josef ^b   Ludwig, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b Institute of Sugar Beet Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRONOMY; CROPS; LINEAR REGRESSION; ORGANIC CARBON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS; SUGAR BEETS;

AGGREGATE CONTENTS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CONVENTIONAL TILLAGE; STEPWISE MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION; TILLAGE TREATMENT; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; WATER STABLE AGGREGATES; WATER-STABLE MACRO-AGGREGATES;

AGRICULTURE;

BIOMASS; CORRELATION; CROP ROTATION; CROP YIELD; FRACTIONATION; PLOWING; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL TEXTURE; SUGAR BEET; TILLAGE; ZERO TILLAGE;

GERMANY;

BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84869104971     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.07.005     Document Type: Article

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