CT-measured pore characteristics of surface and subsurface soils influenced by agroforestry and grass buffers

Geoderma

Volumn 145, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 381-389

  Udawatta, Ranjith P ^a   Anderson, Stephen H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Corn soybean rotation; Fractal dimension; Hydraulic conductivity; Macroporosity; Mesoporosity; Soil pores

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CROPS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; FORESTRY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; AGRO FORESTRY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT); MACRO PORES; MESO PORES; PORE CHARACTERISTICS; ROW CROP; SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SOIL POROSITY; SOIL PROFILING; SOIL PROPERTIES; SUB SURFACE SOILS;

SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGROFORESTRY; BUFFER ZONE; CROP; CROP ROTATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GRASS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MACROPORE; MAIZE; POROSITY; SILTY LOAM; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL WATER; SOYBEAN; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER RETENTION; ZERO TILLAGE;

AGRICULTURE; DIAGNOSIS; FARM CROPS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PLANTS; PORES; POROSITY; RADIOGRAPHY; SOIL; TRANSFORMERS;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 45449095178     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2008.04.004     Document Type: Article

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