Water-stable aggregates and their organic carbon distribution after five years of chemical fertilizer and manure treatments on eroded farmland of Chinese Mollisols

Canadian Journal of Soil Science

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 551-557

  Sui, Yue yu ^a   Jiao, Xiao guang ^b   Liu, Xiao bing ^a,d   Zhang, Xing yi ^a   Ding, Guang wei ^c  

^a NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^b HEILONGJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Aggregate associated carbon; Black soil; Cattle manure; Simulated soil erosion; Water stable aggregate

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE SIZE; AGGREGATE STABILITY; AGRICULTURAL LAND; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; MANURE; MOLLISOL; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL EROSION; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL QUALITY; TOPSOIL;

CHINA;

BOS;

EID: 84877143723     PISSN: 00084271     EISSN: 19181841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4141/CJSS2010-005     Document Type: Article

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