Conversion of home garden agroforestry to crop fields reduced soil carbon and nitrogen stocks in Southern Ethiopia

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 251-264

  Kim, Dong Gill ^a   Terefe, Berhanu ^a   Girma, Shimelis ^a   Kedir, Haji ^a   Morkie, Nebi ^a   Woldie, Tefera Mengistu ^a,b  

^a HAWASSA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b Ministry of Environment and Forest   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Home garden; Land use change; Mono cropping; Soil nitrogen; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGROFORESTRY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CROPPING PRACTICE; HOME GARDEN; LAND USE CHANGE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ETHIOPIA; WONDO GENET;

CATHA EDULIS; SACCHARUM;

EID: 84944620921     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-015-9851-5     Document Type: Article

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