Stratification and storage of soil organic carbon and nitrogen as affected by tillage practices in the North China Plain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Zhao, Xin ^a   Xue, Jian Fu ^a   Zhang, Xiang Qian ^a   Kong, Fan Lei ^a,b   Chen, Fu ^a   Lal, Rattan ^c   Zhang, Hai Lin ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARBON; SOIL;

ARTICLE; BULK DENSITY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHINA; MAIZE; NO TILLAGE; NONHUMAN; PLOW TILLAGE; ROTARY TILLAGE; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL QUALITY; STORAGE; SURFACE SOIL; TILLAGE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; AGRICULTURE; CHEMISTRY; SOIL; WHEAT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; CHINA; NITROGEN; SOIL; TRITICUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84937011078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128873     Document Type: Article

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