The use of porous ceramic cup water samplers to measure solute leaching on chalk soils

Soil Use and Management

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 156-162

  Williams, J R ^a   Lord, E I ^a  

^a ADAS BOXWORTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chalk soils; Leaching; Losses from soil; Measurement; Samplers; Solutes

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC CUP; CHALK SOIL; LEACHING; MATRIC SUCTION; SOIL WATER;

EID: 0030880073     PISSN: 02660032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-2743.1997.tb00578.x     Document Type: Article

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