Index of soil aggregates stability as linear function value of transition matrix elements

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 121-130

  Niewczas, Jerzy ^a   Witkowska Walczak, Barbara ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGROPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Soil aggregation; Stability index; Transition matrix; Weights

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY;

SOIL AGGREGATES;

SOILS;

AGGREGATE STABILITY; INDEX METHOD; SOIL AGGREGATE; WATER; WEIGHT;

EID: 0037378542     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-1987(02)00155-1     Document Type: Article

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