Planting density and sowing proportions of maize-soybean intercrops affected competitive interactions and water-use efficiencies on the Loess Plateau, China

European Journal of Agronomy

Volumn 72, Issue , 2016, Pages 70-79

  Ren, Yuanyuan ^a,b   Liu, Jiajia ^c   Wang, Zhiliang ^d   Zhang, Suiqi ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Competition dynamics; Intercropping; Leaf area index; Relative growth efficiency; Water equivalent ratio

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FIELD METHOD; GROWTH RATE; HARVESTING; INTERCROPPING; LEAF AREA INDEX; MAIZE; PLANTATION; SOWING; SOYBEAN; WATER UPTAKE;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84944937756     PISSN: 11610301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eja.2015.10.001     Document Type: Article

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