Management and soil-quality effects on fertilizer-use efficiency and leaching

Agriculture & Biology

• leaching 91%
• soil quality 87%
• particulate organic matter 78%
• fertilizers 71%
• no-tillage 56%
• macropore flow 36%
• cropping systems 35%
• corn 35%
• nitrogen fertilizers 34%
• soil 28%
• Mollisols 28%
• soybeans 27%
• farms 25%
• biomass 23%
• conventional tillage 20%
• application rate 18%
• soil organic matter 17%
• Glycine max 17%
• Zea mays 15%
• urea 14%
• greenhouses 13%
• crops 10%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• soil quality 100%
• leaching 71%
• zero tillage 51%
• particulate organic matter 45%
• maize 35%
• cropping practice 26%
• farm 22%
• effect 22%
• moisture 20%
• crop 19%
• Mollisol 19%
• soil 17%
• biomass 16%
• macropore 15%
• urea 13%
• organic matter 8%
• rate 8%
• index 6%