Factors underlying yield variability in two California rice fields

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1481-1494

  Roel, Alvaro ^a   Plant, Richard E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Univ of California   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN AGROPECUARIA INIA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROPS; ECOLOGY; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREES (CART); CLUSTER PATTERNS;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 4544318337     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2004.1481     Document Type: Article

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