Soil biochemical properties and microbial resilience in agroforestry systems: Effects on wheat growth under controlled drought and flooding conditions

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 463-464, Issue , 2013, Pages 51-60

  Rivest, David ^a   Lorente, Miren ^a   Olivier, Alain ^b   Messier, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agroecosystems; Soil nutrients; Soil resilience; Soil respirometry; Water stress; Wheat growth

Indexed keywords

AGRO-ECOSYSTEMS; RESPIROMETRY; SOIL NUTRIENTS; SOIL RESILIENCES; WATER STRESS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; FLOODS; FORESTRY; NUTRIENTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PRODUCTIVITY; SOIL MOISTURE;

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

SOIL WATER;

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGROFORESTRY; SOIL NUTRIENT;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; AGROFORESTRY; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOODING; FLOWERING; GRAIN YIELD; GREENHOUSE; METABOLISM; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL MICROFLORA; TREE; WATER STRESS; WEIGHT; WHEAT;

AGROECOSYSTEMS; SOIL NUTRIENTS; SOIL RESILIENCE; SOIL RESPIROMETRY; WATER STRESS; WHEAT GROWTH;

DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; FLOODS; FORESTRY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES; TRITICUM;

DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; FARM CROPS; FLOODS; FORESTRY; GRAIN; MOISTURE; NUTRIENTS; PLANTS; PRODUCTIVITY; SOIL;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84879495103     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.05.071     Document Type: Article

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