Soil and crop response to stover removal from rainfed and irrigated corn

GCB Bioenergy

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 219-230

  Kenney, Ian ^a   Blanco Canqui, Humberto ^b   Presley, Deann R ^a   Rice, Charles W ^a   Janssen, Keith ^c   Olson, Brian ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Irrigation; Soil aggregation; Soil carbon; Stover removal; Water erosion

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; CROPS; CULTIVATION; EROSION; IRRIGATION; SEDIMENTS; SILT; SOIL MOISTURE;

AGGREGATE STABILITY; CORN (ZEA MAYS L.); MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; SOIL AGGREGATION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE REGIMES; WATER EROSION;

SOILS;

BIOFUEL; CROP PRODUCTION; IRRIGATION; MAIZE; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL WATER; WATER CONTENT; WATER EROSION;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84923076596     PISSN: 17571693     EISSN: 17571707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12128     Document Type: Article

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