Transition from intensive tillage to no-till enhances carbon sequestration in microaggregates of surface soil in the North China Plain

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 146, Issue PA, 2015, Pages 26-31

  Du, Zhangliu ^a   Ren, Tusheng ^b   Hu, Chunsheng ^c   Zhang, Qingzhong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Density fractionation; Microaggregate; No till; Occluded light fraction

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; AGRICULTURE; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON; FLOTATION; ORGANIC CARBON; SOILS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DENSITY FRACTIONATIONS; LIGHT FRACTION; MICROAGGREGATE; NO-TILL; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTERS; PHYSICAL PROTECTION; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; MICROAGGREGATE; PLOWING; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; ZERO TILLAGE;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

EID: 85027937857     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2014.08.012     Document Type: Article

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