Organic Farming Affects C and N in Soils Under Olive Groves in Mediterranean Areas

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 800-806

  Parras Alcántara, Luis ^a   Díaz Jaimes, Luisa ^a,b   Lozano García, Beatriz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b Agricultural Research Institute INIA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

C:N ratio; Conventional tillage; Olive groves; Soil organic carbon and nitrogen stocks; Stratification ratio

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRONOMY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; NITROGEN; SOIL QUALITY;

C:N RATIO; CONVENTIONAL TILLAGE; OLIVE GROVE; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON AND NITROGEN; STRATIFICATION RATIOS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

EID: 84946471591     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2231     Document Type: Article

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