Comparison of Three Water Erosion Prediction Methods (137Cs, WEPP, USLE) in South-East Brazilian Sugarcane Production

Journal of Agriculture in the Tropics and Subtropics

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 107-118

  Sparovek, G ^a,d   Bacchi, O O S ^a   Schnug, E ^b   Ranieri, S B L ^a   De Maria, I C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Inst of Plant Nutr and Soil Sci   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO AGRONÔMICO   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

137Cs; Brazil; Erosion prediction; Sugarcane; USLE; WEPP

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347561675     PISSN: 00413186     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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