Soil quality differences in a row-crop watershed with agroforestry and grass buffers

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 829-838

  Weerasekara, Chathuri ^a   Udawatta, Ranjith P ^a   Jose, Shibu ^a   Kremer, Robert J ^a   Weerasekara, Chamara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Grass waterway; Soil enzyme; Water stable aggregates

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGROFORESTRY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GRASS; MAIZE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL QUALITY; SOYBEAN; WATERSHED;

MISSOURI; NOVELTY; UNITED STATES;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84957953153     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-016-9903-5     Document Type: Article

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