Rangeland Use Change to Agriculture Has Different Effects on Soil Organic Matter Fractions Depending on the Type of Cultivation

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 175-180

  Zandi, Leila ^a   Erfanzadeh, Reza ^a   Joneidi Jafari, Hamed ^b  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KURDISTAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

land use change; Middle East; natural ecosystem; total nitrogen; total organic matter

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; AGRICULTURE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FARMS; LAND USE; NITROGEN; ORCHARDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOILS;

LAND-USE CHANGE; MIDDLE EAST; NATURAL ECOSYSTEM; TOTAL NITROGEN; TOTAL ORGANIC MATTER;

CULTIVATION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CROP PRODUCTION; CULTIVATION; LAND USE CHANGE; ORCHARD; RANGELAND; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

MIDDLE EAST;

PISUM SATIVUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84994496778     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2589     Document Type: Article

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