Soil Quality Indicators Response to Land Use and Soil Management Systems in Northern Ethiopia's Catchment

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 438-448

  Tesfahunegn, Gebreyesus Brhane ^a,b  

^a AKSUM UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Land use system; Mai Negus catchment; Northern Ethiopia; Soil management system; Soil quality indicator

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; CARBON; CATCHMENTS; CONSERVATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); LAND USE; ORGANIC CARBON; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RUNOFF;

CATION EXCHANGE CAPACITIES; ETHIOPIA; LAND-USE SYSTEMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; SOIL QUALITY INDICATORS; SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT;

SOILS;

ERAGROSTIS TEF; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; VICIA FABA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84957676496     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2245     Document Type: Article

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