Costing yield loss from acidity, sodicity and dryland salinity to Australian agriculture

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 417-433

  Hajkowicz, Stefan ^a   Young, M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acidity; Australia; Cost; Economics; Salinity; Sodicity

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; COSTS; ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOILS;

SODICITY; SOIL CONSTRAINTS; YIELD LOSS;

AGRICULTURE;

ACIDITY; CROP YIELD; GRASSLAND; SALINITY; SODICITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 27144554195     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.670     Document Type: Article

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