Effects of five years conservation tillage for hedging against drought, stabilizing maize yield, and improving soil environment in the drylands of northern China

• Zizheng Deng,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Resources and Environment, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Jingzhong, Shanxi, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4396-2213

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• Mingjing Huang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 13653650538@163.com (MH); zwping@126.com (WZ)

  Affiliations Shanxi Institute of Organic Dryland Farming, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, State Key Laboratory of Integrative Sustainable Dryland Agriculture (in preparation), Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

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• Wuping Zhang ,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 13653650538@163.com (MH); zwping@126.com (WZ)

  Affiliation College of Software, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Jingzhong, Shanxi, China

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• Guofang Wang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Resources and Environment, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Jingzhong, Shanxi, China

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• Xuefang Huang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Shanxi Institute of Organic Dryland Farming, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, State Key Laboratory of Integrative Sustainable Dryland Agriculture (in preparation), Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

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• Gaimei Liang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Shanxi Institute of Organic Dryland Farming, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, State Key Laboratory of Integrative Sustainable Dryland Agriculture (in preparation), Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

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• Nana Li

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Shanxi Institute of Organic Dryland Farming, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, State Key Laboratory of Integrative Sustainable Dryland Agriculture (in preparation), Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

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