Estimating water retention and availability in Nigerian soils from their saturation percentage

Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis

Volumn 29, Issue 7-8, 1998, Pages 913-922

  Mbagwu, J S C ^a   Mbah, C N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATURATION; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER RETENTION;

NIGERIA;

EID: 0031840049     PISSN: 00103624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00103629809369995     Document Type: Article

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