Long-term manuring and fertilizer effects on depletion of soil organic carbon stocks under pearl millet-cluster bean-castor rotation in Western India

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 173-183

  Srinivasarao, Ch ^a   Venkateswarlu, B ^a   Lal, R ^b   Singh, A K ^c   Kundu, S ^a   Vittal, K P R ^d   Patel, J J ^e   Patel, M M ^e  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR DRYLAND AGRICULTURE   (India)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIAN COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH   (India)

^d ICAR NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ABIOTIC STRESS MANAGEMENT   (India)

^e All India Coordinated Research Project on Dryland Agriculture Sardar Krushinagar   (India)

Author keywords

Carbon pools; Carbon sequestration; FYM; India; Semi arid tropics; Soil amendments; Soil organic carbon; Sustainable yield index

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; GEMS; LAKES; LOADING; MANURES; PRODUCTIVITY; SOILS;

CARBON POOL; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FYM; INDIA; SEMI ARID; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SUSTAINABLE YIELD INDICES;

FERTILIZERS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP ROTATION; CROP YIELD; ENTISOL; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; MANURE; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

INDIA;

CYAMOPSIS TETRAGONOLOBA; PENNISETUM GLAUCUM;

EID: 84897957757     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.1158     Document Type: Article

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