Quantification of tillage, plant cover, and cumulative rainfall effects on soil surface microrelief by statistical, geostatistical and fractal indices

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 575-590

  Paz Ferreiro, J ^a   Bertol, I ^b   Vidal Vazquez E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b SANTA CATARINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEREAL; CROP RESIDUE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FALLOW; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICS; GROWING SEASON; MAIZE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICRORELIEF; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; ROUGHNESS; SOIL SURFACE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TILLAGE; VEGETATION COVER;

AVENA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 49149128416     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-15-575-2008     Document Type: Article

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