Nutrient and bulk density characteristics of soil profiles in six land use systems along topo-sequences in inland valley watersheds of ashanti region, ghana

Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 649-664

  Annan Afful, Ebenezer ^a,b   Iwashima, Noriko ^a   Kamidohzono, Akira ^a   Masunaga, Tsugiyuki ^a   Otoo, Ernest ^b   Asubonteng, Kwame Osafredu ^c   Kubota, Daisuke ^d   Wakatsuki, Toshiyuki ^e  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CSIR CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

^c CSIR Soil Research Institute   (Ghana)

^d CETABOL   (Bolivia)

^e KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bulk density; Geological fertilization; Inland valley watersheds; Iron stone layer; Topo sequence

Indexed keywords

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 10044281677     PISSN: 00380768     EISSN: 17470765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00380768.2004.10408522     Document Type: Article

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