Barley-pea intercropping: Effects on land productivity, carbon and nitrogen transformations

Field Crops Research

Volumn 166, Issue , 2014, Pages 18-25

  Chapagain, Tejendra ^a   Riseman, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Gross ecosystem photosynthesis; Intercropping; N transfer; Net ecosystem productivity

Indexed keywords

BARLEY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; INTERCROPPING; LEGUME; MONOCULTURE; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRODUCTIVITY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

HORDEUM; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 84904980721     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2014.06.014     Document Type: Article

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