Soil water flow dynamics in a managed cutover peat field, Quebec: Field and laboratory investigations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 3675-3683

  Schlotzhauer, Susanne M ^a   Price, Jonathan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEAT; SOIL WATER; WATER FLOW;

CANADA;

EID: 0033408497     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900126     Document Type: Article

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