Soil carbon efflux and sequestration as a function of relative availability of inorganic N pools in dry tropical agroecosystem

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-6

  Srivastava, Pratap ^a   Raghubanshi, Akhilesh Singh ^a   Singh, Rishikesh ^a   Tripathi, Sachchida Nand ^b  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Dry tropical agroecosystem; Organic amendment; Soil ammonium N:nitrate N ratio; Soil moisture content; Soil temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937202497     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2015.04.019     Document Type: Article

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