The role of soil organic matter in maintaining soil quality in continuous cropping systems

DW Reeves - Soil and Tillage research, 1997 - Elsevier
Maintenance and improvement of soil quality in continuous cropping systems is critical to
sustaining agricultural productivity and environmental quality for future generations. This …

Soil dry aggregate stability and wind erodible fraction in a semiarid environment of Argentina

JC Colazo, DE Buschiazzo - Geoderma, 2010 - Elsevier
The size and stability of soil aggregates are primary factors that affect the soil susceptibility
to wind erosion. Relationships among several soil properties and both the wind erodible …

The impact of agriculture on soil texture due to wind erosion

JC Colazo, D Buschiazzo - Land Degradation & Development, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Wind erosion produces textural changes on topsoil of semiarid and arid environments;
however, the selection of particles on different textured soils is unclear. Our objectives were …

Carbon and nitrogen pools of southern high plains cropland and grassland soils

KF Bronson, TM Zobeck, TT Chua… - Soil Science Society …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Soil C and N have long been recognized as important indicators of soil productivity. The
current low levels of soil C and N of cropland soils have led to interest in sequestering C with …

The environmental benefits and costs of conservation tillage

ND Uri, JD Atwood, J Sanabria - Environmental Geology, 1999 - Springer
Every production practice, including conservation tillage, has positive or negative
environmental consequences that may involve air, land, water, and/or the health and …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of conservation tillage on total and aggregated soil organic carbon in the Andes

M Quintero, NB Comerford - Open Journal of Soil Science, 2013 - scirp.org
Many Andisols of the Andes have been disturbed by traditional potato-based rotation
agriculture disrupting soil structure, water retention capacity and organic matter content. This …

Runoff, erosion, and soil quality characteristics of a former Conservation Reserve Program site

JE Gilley, JW Doran, DL Karlen… - Journal of Soil and Water …, 1997 - jswconline.org
No-till and moldboard plow tillage systems were established on a former Conservation
Reserve Program (CRP) site in southwest Iowa. Runoff rates from simulated rainfall events …

Soil organic matter recovery on conservation reserve program fields in southeastern Wyoming

MD Robles, IC Burke - Soil Science Society of America Journal, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Soil C and N changes following cessation of cultivation in semiarid soils is not well
understood. We hypothesized that returning cultivated fields in southeastern Wyoming to …

An evaluation of the economic benefits and costs of conservation tillage

ND Uri - Environmental Geology, 2000 - Springer
The economic benefits of the adoption of conservation tillage depend on site-specific factors
including soil characteristics, local climatic conditions, cropping patterns, and other attributes …

The environmental benefits and costs of conservation tillage

ND Uri, JD Atwood, J Sanabria - Science of the Total Environment, 1998 - Elsevier
Every production practice, including conservation tillage, has positive or negative
environmental consequences that may involve air, land, water and/or the health and …