Soil Tillage for Sustainable Nutrient Management

Soil cultivation has a large impact on factors governing plant nutrient dynamics. From practical experience farmers have known for a long time that soil cultivation causes increased mineralization of organic matter. This is particularly obvious when plowing in short-term leys and even more so when p...

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Published inSoil Tillage in Agroecosystems pp. 97 - 128
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United Kingdom CRC Press 2002
Taylor & Francis Group
Subjects
Agricultural science
Biodiversity
Soil science, sedimentology
Sustainable Nutrient Management
CRC Press LLC
Nitrate Leaching
Soil Cultivation
Nutrient Dynamics
Soil Tillage
Soil Organic Matter
Conservation Tillage
CT Plot
Net Mineralization
Clover Grass Sward
Soil Microbial Biomass Carbon
Soil Mineral
Nutrient Losses
Soil Mineral Nitrogen Contents
Surface Runoff
Nutrient Pools
CT Soil
CT
Crop Residues
SED
Tillage Regime
Chisel Plowing
Winter Wheat
NT Plot
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Summary:Soil cultivation has a large impact on factors governing plant nutrient dynamics. From practical experience farmers have known for a long time that soil cultivation causes increased mineralization of organic matter. This is particularly obvious when plowing in short-term leys and even more so when plowing in long-term leys orpermanent grassland. The opposite process, accumulation of organic matter and hence nutrients, as a result of reduced or no tillage, has been studied intensively only since the second half of the 20century, in conjunction with studies on reduced tillage.
ISBN:0849312280
9780849312281
DOI:10.1201/9781420040609-6