Spatial variability of water repellency in pine forest soil

Soil and Water Research

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages S123-S129

  Orfánus, Tomáš ^a   Bedrna, Zoltán ^b   Lichner, L'Ubomír ^a   Hallett, Paul D ^c   Kňava, Karol ^a   Sebíň, Michal ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^c SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infiltration; Sorptivity; Spatial variability; Water repellency; WDPT test

Indexed keywords

EID: 65549149370     PISSN: 18015395     EISSN: 18059384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17221/11/2008-swr     Document Type: Article

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