Performance of grass strips for sediment control in Okinawa

Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 291-297

  Shiono, Takahiro ^a   Yamamoto, Nobuyuki ^b   Haraguchi, Noburo ^a   Yoshinaga, Anshun ^c  

^a NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR KYUSHU OKINAWA REGION   (Japan)

^b Okinawa General Bureau   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Centipede grass; Kunigami Maji soil; Reddish fine sediment

Indexed keywords

EREMOCHLOA; EREMOCHLOA OPHIUROIDES;

EID: 36749020184     PISSN: 00213551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6090/jarq.41.291     Document Type: Article

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