Soil carbon dynamics as affected by long-term contrasting cropping systems and tillages under semiarid Mediterranean climate

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 73, Issue , 2014, Pages 140-147

  Laudicina, Vito Armando ^a   Novara, Agata ^a   Gristina, Luciano ^a   Badalucco, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbon stock; Field CO2 flux; Labile carbon pools; Tillage; Wheat monoculture; Wheat faba rotation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884963421     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2013.09.002     Document Type: Article

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