Least limiting water range and soil pore-size distribution related to soil organic carbon dynamics following zero and conventional tillage of a black soil in Northeast China

Journal of Agricultural Science

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 270-281

  Chen, X W ^a   Shi, X H ^b   Liang, A Z ^a   Zhang, X P ^a   Jia, S X ^a   Fan, R Q ^a,c   Wei, S C ^a,c  

^a NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; LIMITING FACTOR; MINERALIZATION; ORGANIC MATTER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL STRUCTURE; SOIL TYPE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TILLAGE;

CHINA;

EID: 84922207171     PISSN: 00218596     EISSN: 14695146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021859614000161     Document Type: Article

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