Soil fertility and its significance to crop productivity and sustainability in typical agroecosystem: A summary of long-term fertilizer experiments in China

Plant and Soil

Volumn 381, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 13-23

  Shang, Qingyin ^a,b   Ling, Ning ^a   Feng, Xumeng ^a   Yang, Xiuxia ^a,b   Wu, Pingping ^a   Zou, Jianwen ^a   Shen, Qirong ^a   Guo, Shiwei ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JIANGXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Crop productivity; Long term fertilizer; Maize; Rice; Soil fertility; Wheat; Yield stability

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MAIZE; RICE; SOIL FERTILITY;

CHINA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84904394168     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-014-2089-6     Document Type: Article

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