Soil salinity and sodicity in a shrimp farming coastal area of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Environmental Geology

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1739-1746

  Tho, Nguyen ^a   Vromant, N ^b   Hung, Nguyen Thanh ^a   Hens, L ^c  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^b Vlaamse Vereniging Voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking en Technische Bijstand   (Belgium)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Mekong Delta; Shrimp culture; Soil salinity; Soil sodicity; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; CROPS; CULTIVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; RAIN; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ROTATIONAL SYSTEMS; SHRIMP CULTURE; SOIL SALINITY; SOIL SODICITY;

SOILS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COASTAL ZONE; CRUSTACEAN; DRY SEASON; RAINFALL; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SODICITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL DEGRADATION; TOPSOIL;

ASIA; CAI NUOC; EURASIA; MEKONG DELTA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 44349085268     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-007-0951-z     Document Type: Article

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