Factors influencing soil aggregation and particulate organic matter responses to bioenergy crops across a topographic gradient

Geoderma

Volumn 255-256, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-11

  Ontl, Todd A ^a   Cambardella, Cynthia A ^b   Schulte, Lisa A ^a   Kolka, Randall K ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Bioenergy; Carbon; Organic matter; Physical protection; Soil

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; AGGREGATES; BIOFUELS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; CARBON; CROPS; DIGITAL STORAGE; LAKES; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); TEXTURES;

BIO-ENERGY; HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPES; LANDSCAPE POSITIONS; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTERS; PHYSICAL PROTECTION; ROOT CHARACTERISTICS; SOIL AGGREGATION; TOPOGRAPHIC GRADIENTS;

SOILS;

BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; BIOENERGY; ENERGY CROP; GRASS; MACROAGGREGATE; MAIZE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; ROOT SYSTEM; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL TEXTURE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

IOWA; UNITED STATES;

PANICUM VIRGATUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84928318564     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2015.04.016     Document Type: Article

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