Soil Quality of a Mature Alley Cropping Agroforestry System in Temperate North America

Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis

Volumn 45, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 2539-2551

  Udawatta, Ranjith P ^a   Kremer, Robert J ^a   Nelson, Kelly A ^a   Jose, Shibu ^a   Bardhan, Sougata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Claypan soils; corn soybean; enzymes; maple; total carbon

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; ALLEY CROPPING; CROP ROTATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MAIZE; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL QUALITY; SOYBEAN; ZERO TILLAGE;

MISSOURI; UNITED STATES;

ACER; GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84911367068     PISSN: 00103624     EISSN: 15322416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00103624.2014.932376     Document Type: Article

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