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2.5: Sources

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    Allison, F.E. 1973. Soil Organic Matter and Its Role in Crop Production. Scientific Publishing Co.: Amsterdam, Netherlands.

    Brady, N.C. and R.R. Weil. 2008. The Nature and Properties of Soils, 14th ed. Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ.

    Follett, R.F., J.W.B. Stewart and C.V. Cole, eds. 1987. Soil Fertility and Organic Matter as Critical Components of Production Systems. Special Publication No. 19. Soil Science Society of America: Madison, WI.

    Lal, R. 2008. Sequestration of atmospheric CO2 in global carbon pools. Energy & Environmental Science 1.

    Lehmann, J., D.C. Kern, B. Glaser and W.I. Woods, eds. 2003. Amazonian Dark Earths: Origin, Properties, Management. Kluwer Academic Publishing: Dordrecht, Netherlands.

    Lehmann, J. and M. Rondon. 2006. Bio-char soil management on highly weathered soils in the humid tropics. In Biological Approaches to Sustainable Soil Systems, ed. N. Uphoff et al., pp. 517–530. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL.

    Lucas, R.E., J.B. Holtman and J.L. Connor. 1977. Soil carbon dynamics and cropping practices. In Agriculture and Energy, ed. W. Lockeretz, pp. 333–451. Academic Press: New York, NY. (See this source for the Michigan study on the relationship between soil organic matter levels and crop-yield potential.)

    Manlay, R.J., C. Feller and M.J. Swift. 2007. Historical evolution of soil organic matter concepts and their relationships with the fertility and sustainability of cropping systems. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 119: 217–233.

    Oliveira Nunes, R., G. Abrahão Domiciano, W. Sousa Alves, A. Claudia A. Melo, Fábio Cesar, S. Nogueira, L. Pasqualoto Canellas and F. Lopes Olivares. 2019. Evaluation of the effects of humic acids on maize root architecture by label-free proteomics analysis. Scientific Reports (NatureReports) 9, Article number: 12019. Accessed Sept. 14, 2019, at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-48509-2.

    Oshins, C. and L. Drinkwater. 1999. An Introduction to Soil Health. An unpublished slide set.

    Powers, R.F. and K. Van Cleve. 1991. Long-term ecological research in temperate and boreal forest ecosystems. Agronomy Journal 83: 11–24. (This reference compares the relative amounts of carbon in soils with that in plants.)

    Stevenson, F.J. 1986. Cycles of Soil: Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Sulfur, Micronutrients. John Wiley & Sons: New York, NY. (This reference compares the amount of carbon in soils with that in plants.)

    Strickling, E. 1975. Crop sequences and tillage in efficient crop production. Abstracts of the 1975 Northeast Branch American Society Agronomy Meetings: 20–29. (See this source for the Maryland experiment relating soil organic matter to corn yield.)

    Tate, R.L., III. 1987. Soil Organic Matter: Biological and Ecological Effects. John Wiley & Sons: New York, NY.

    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 2019. Inventory of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and sinks. EPA 430-R-19-001. Available at www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-sinks.Weil, R. and F. Magdoff. 2004. Significance of soil organic matter to soil quality and health. In Soil Organic Matter in Sustainable Agriculture, ed. F. Magdoff and R. Weil, pp. 1–43. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL.


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