Effect of cover crop management on organic matter production and soil fertility in an Abies fraseri plantation

Agriculture & Biology

• Abies fraseri 100%
• aboveground biomass 8%
• biomass 5%
• biomass production 7%
• calcium 5%
• Christmas trees 26%
• cover crops 67%
• crop management 68%
• cropping systems 16%
• degradation 5%
• Eastern United States 11%
• green manures 10%
• intercropping 9%
• Lolium perenne 9%
• magnesium 7%
• Medicago sativa 9%
• Midwestern United States 11%
• mineralization 8%
• minerals 13%
• monitoring 5%
• nitrogen 25%
• nitrogen content 8%
• nutrient uptake 8%
• nutrients 10%
• organic soils 19%
• phosphorus 6%
• plantations 51%
• potassium 6%
• production technology 7%
• rye 8%
• soil 8%
• soil fertility 56%
• soil minerals 22%
• soil organic carbon 9%
• soil organic matter 57%
• soil profiles 9%
• total nitrogen 8%
• Trifolium repens 18%
• vegetation 6%