Fractal mass-size scaling of wetting soil aggregates

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 182, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 317-322

  Guber, A K ^a   Pachepsky, Ya A ^b   Levkovsky, E V ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregates shrinkage; Fractals; Scaling; Soil aggregate porosity

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; CHARACTERIZATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FRACTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER; WETTING;

FRACTAL DIMENSION; MASS FRACTALS; SOIL AGGREGATES; SOIL STRUCTURE;

SOILS;

AGGREGATE SIZE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL STRUCTURE; WETTING;

EID: 13444291745     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2004.04.008     Document Type: Article

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