The PSF model of soil structure: A multiscale approach

Scaling Methods in Soil Physics

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-18

  Perrier, E M A ^a   Bird, N R A ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b SILSOE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

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