An inflatable minirhizotron system for stony soils

Plant and Soil

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 255-260

  López, Bernat ^a,b   Sabaté, Santiago ^a,b   Gracia, Carlos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CREAF   (Spain)

Author keywords

fine roots; methodology; minirhizotron; stony soils

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029800258     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00009335     Document Type: Article

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