A long-term nitrogen fertilizer gradient has little effect on soil organic matter in a high-intensity maize production system

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1339-1350

  Brown, Kimberly H ^a   Bach, Elizabeth M ^a   Drijber, Rhae A ^b   Hofmockel, Kirsten S ^a   Jeske, Elizabeth S ^b   Sawyer, John E ^a   Castellano, Michael J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CROP PRODUCTION; CROP RESIDUE; FERTILIZER; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; MAIZE; NITROGEN; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ZEA MAYS;

CARBON; FERTILIZER; NITROGEN; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; CROP; MAIZE; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; CARBON; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FERTILIZERS; IOWA; NITROGEN; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84896722082     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12519     Document Type: Article

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