A meta-analysis of global cropland soil carbon changes due to cover cropping

2020/01/27 by Jinshi Jian, Xuan Du, Mark S. Reiter +1 · 535 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Agroforestry #Agronomy #Biology #Biomass (ecology) #Cover crop #Crop #Ecology #Environmental science #Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology #Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics #Soil carbon #Soil erosion and sediment transport #Soil quality #Soil science #Soil water #Temperate climate

paper · open access · doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.107735

published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry 143, 107735 (Elsevier BV)

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