Soil aggregate stability under different landscapes and vegetation types in a semiarid area in northeastern syria

Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 229-240

  Shinjo, Hitoshi ^a   Fujita, Haruhiro ^b   Gintzburger, Gus ^c   Kosaki, Takashi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE DRY AREAS ICARDA   (Syrian Arab Republic)

Author keywords

Aggregate stability; Landscape; Rangeland; Semiarid; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034068818     PISSN: 00380768     EISSN: 17470765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00380768.2000.10408778     Document Type: Article

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