An algorithm for calculating the least limiting water range of soils

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1210-1215

  Leao, Tairone Paiva ^a   Da Silva, Alvaro Pires ^b   Perfect, Ed ^a   Tormena, Cassio Antonio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LEAST LIMITING WATER RANGE (LLWR); PLANT GROWTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS SYSTEM (SAS); WATER POTENTIAL;

SOILS;

DATA PROCESSING; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 23744463216     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2004.0229     Document Type: Article

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