Analysis of spatial relationships between soil and crop variables in a durum wheat field using a multivariate geostatistical approach

European Journal of Agronomy

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 331-342

  Casa, Raffaele ^a   Castrignanò, Annamaria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b Istituto Sperimentale Agronomico   (Italy)

Author keywords

Durum wheat; Factor kriging analysis; Geostatistics; Yield components

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NDVI; SOIL PROPERTY; WHEAT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LAZIO; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VITERBO;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM;

EID: 39049112064     PISSN: 11610301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eja.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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