Influence of prairie restoration on CT-measured soil pore characteristics

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 219-228

  Udawatta, Ranjith P ^a   Anderson, Stephen H ^a   Gantzer, Clark J ^a   Garrett, Harold E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PORE SIZE;

PRAIRIE RESTORATION; SOIL CORES; SOIL PROPERTIES;

SOILS;

SOIL WATER;

ARTICLE; BULK DENSITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORN; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POROSITY; PRAIRIE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOYBEAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MISSOURI; POROSITY; SOIL; SOYBEANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WATER MOVEMENTS; ZEA MAYS;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 38349088394     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2007.0227     Document Type: Article

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