SIDASS project: Part 3. The optimum and the range of water content for tillage - Further developments

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-37

  Dexter, A R ^a   Czyz, E A ^a   Birkas M ^b   Diaz Pereira, E ^c   Dumitru, E ^d   Enache, R ^d   Fleige, H ^e   Horn, R ^e   Rajkaj, K ^f   De La Rosa, D ^c   Simota, C ^d  

^a STATE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

^d Res Inst Soil Sci and Agrochem   (Romania)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^f Research Institute for Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry Hungarian Academy of Sciences   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Pedo transfer functions; Soil physical quality; Van Genuchten equation; Water retention curve

Indexed keywords

CLAY; COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EROSION; ITERATIVE METHODS; SOILS; SPREADSHEETS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; WATER;

ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL EROSION; SOIL PROPERTIES; TILLAGE;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; TILLAGE; WATER CONTENT;

APOGON BRACHYGRAMMUS;

EID: 20244388288     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2005.01.005     Document Type: Article

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