Measurement of soil water content in a peat-vermiculite medium using Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR): A laboratory and field evaluation

Tree Planters' Notes

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 88-93

  Lambany, Gil ^a   Robidas, Line ^b   Ballester, Pierre ^b  

^a Dir de la Rech Forestière   (Canada)

^b NONE

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