Long-term tillage systems impacts on soil C dynamics, soil resilience and agronomic productivity of a Brazilian Oxisol

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 136, Issue , 2014, Pages 38-50

  De Moraes Sá, João Carlos ^a   Tivet, Florent ^b   Lal, Rattan ^c   Briedis, Clever ^a   Hartman, Daiani Cruz ^a   dos Santos, Juliane Zuffo ^a   dos Santos, Josiane Burkner ^d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF PONTA GROSSA   (Brazil)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO AGRONÔMICO DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biomass C input; Labile and stable fractions; No till cropping systems; Resilience; Temporal changes; Yield

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS-C INPUT; CROPPING SYSTEMS; LABILE AND STABLE FRACTIONS; RESILIENCE; TEMPORAL CHANGE; YIELD;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRONOMY; AMINO ACIDS; CROPS; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); NITROGEN FIXATION; PRODUCTIVITY; RESTORATION; SOILS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGRONOMY; BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CROP ROTATION; DISTURBANCE; OXISOL; PRODUCTIVITY; RESILIENCE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL QUALITY; SOYBEAN; TILLAGE;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84886530384     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2013.09.010     Document Type: Article

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