An index for quantifying the trade-off between drainage and productivity in tree-crop mixtures

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 53, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 187-199

  Stirzaker, R J ^a   Lefroy, E C ^a   Ellis, T W ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Competition; Complementarity; Re charge; Salinity; Tree belts

Indexed keywords

CROP PRODUCTION; DRAINAGE; SALINITY; TRADE-OFF; TREE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0037016906     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3774(01)00164-0     Document Type: Article

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