Pore morphology changes under tillage and no-tillage practices

Geoderma

Volumn 142, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 226-236

  Hubert, Fabien ^a   Hallaire, Vincent ^b   Sardini, Paul ^a   Caner, Laurent ^a   Heddadj, Djilali ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

^c Chambre d'agriculture de Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

Image analysis; No tillage; Pore shape; Reduced tillage; Representative elementary area

Indexed keywords

CROPS; ELONGATION; FERTILIZERS; GEOLOGY; POROSITY;

NO TILLAGE; PORE SHAPE; REDUCED TILLAGE; REPRESENTATIVE ELEMENTARY AREA;

SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; MACROPORE; MAIZE; SILTY SOIL; SOIL STRUCTURE; TYPOLOGY; ZERO TILLAGE;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 34848813176     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2007.08.017     Document Type: Article

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