Quantitative soil quality indexing of temperate arable management systems

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 150, Issue , 2015, Pages 57-67

  Askari, Mohammad Sadegh ^a   Holden, Nicholas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Conventional tillage; Crop rotation; Minimum tillage; Soil quality index; VESS

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; CROPS; FISH; NITROGEN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOILS;

CONVENTIONAL TILLAGE; CROP ROTATION; MINIMUM TILLAGE; SOIL QUALITY INDEX; VESS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

AGGREGATE SIZE; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ARABLE FARMING; CROP ROTATION; DATA SET; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL STRUCTURE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TILLAGE;

IRELAND;

EID: 84922126007     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2015.01.010     Document Type: Article

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