Soil functional zone management: A vehicle for enhancing production and soil ecosystem services in row-crop agroecosystems

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue FEB2016, 2016, Pages

  Williams, Alwyn ^a   Kane, Daniel A ^b   Ewing, Patrick M ^a   Atwood, Lesley W ^c   Jilling, Andrea ^c   Li, Meng ^d   Lou, Yi ^d   Davis, Adam S ^e   Grandy, A Stuart ^c   Huerd, Sheri C ^a   Hunter, Mitchell C ^f   Koide, Roger T ^g   Mortensen, David A ^f   Smith, Richard G ^c   Snapp, Sieglinde S ^b   Spokas, Kurt A ^e   Yannarell, Anthony C ^d   Jordan, Nicholas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop yield; Ecosystem services; Precision tillage; Soil biodiversity; Soil management; Temporal intensification; Trade offs; Zonal tillage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958540854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00065     Document Type: Article

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