Functional diversity of soil microbial communities in response to tillage and crop residue retention in an eroded Loess soil

Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 311-321

  Yang, Q ^a,b   Wang, X ^a,b   Shen, Y ^a,b   Philp, J N M ^c  

^a State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro ecosystems   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

functional diversity; Loess Plateau; microbial community; no tillage; residue retention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881649938     PISSN: 00380768     EISSN: 17470765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00380768.2013.775004     Document Type: Article

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