Global changes in soil stocks of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulphur as influenced by long-term agricultural production

Global Change Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 2509-2519

  Kopittke, Peter M ^a   Dalal, Ram C ^a   Finn, Damien ^a   Menzies, Neal W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

conventional cropping; land use change; no till; organic agriculture; organic amendment; pasture; soil stocks

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CARBON CYCLE; CROPPING PRACTICE; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND USE CHANGE; MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; PASTURE; PHOSPHORUS CYCLE; SULFUR CYCLE; ZERO TILLAGE;

CARBON; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL; SULFUR;

AGRICULTURE; CHEMISTRY; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; META ANALYSIS; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL; SULFUR;

EID: 84991087294     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13513     Document Type: Article

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