Tillage and N-fertilizer influences on selected organic carbon fractions in a North Dakota silty clay soil

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 134, Issue , 2013, Pages 213-222

  Awale, Rakesh ^a   Chatterjee, Amitava ^a   Franzen, David ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse particulate organic matter; Conservation tillage; Microbial biomass carbon; Mineralizable carbon; Permanganate oxidizable carbon; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

COARSE PARTICULATES; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; INCUBATION PERIODS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MICROBIAL BIOMASS CARBON; ORGANIC CARBON FRACTION; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; THREE-FIELD EXPERIMENTS;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AMINO ACIDS; CARBON; CLAY; FERTILIZERS; NITROGEN FIXATION; SOIL CONSERVATION;

AGRICULTURE;

BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSERVATION TILLAGE; CORRELATION; CROP ROTATION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FRACTIONATION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MINERALIZATION; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; SILTY CLAY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TILLAGE;

FARGO; NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884397800     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2013.08.006     Document Type: Article

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