The relationship between surface fractal dimension and soil water content at permanent wilting point

Geoderma

Volumn 151, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 224-232

  Ghanbarian Alavijeh, B ^a   Millan H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b University of Granma   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Permanent wilting point; Soil Quality Index; Soil water retention curve; Soils; Surface fractal dimension

Indexed keywords

CLAY CONTENT; CLAY PARTICLES; DATA SETS; FIELD DATA; FRACTAL GEOMETRY; FRACTAL METHODS; GEOMETRICAL STRUCTURE; GOODNESS OF FIT; GRENOBLE; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; LOGARITHMIC FUNCTIONS; PERMANENT WILTING POINT; PERMANENT WILTING POINTS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PLANT SURVIVAL; PORE-SOLID INTERFACES; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SOIL QUALITY INDEX; SOIL SAMPLE; SOIL WATER; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SOIL WATER RETENTION; SOIL WATER RETENTION CURVE; SOIL WATER RETENTION CURVES; SURFACE FRACTAL DIMENSION; SURFACE FRACTAL DIMENSIONS; UNSATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; UNSATURATED SOIL; WATER FILM; WILLIAMS;

CLAY MINERALS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; PHASE INTERFACES; SOIL MOISTURE; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER CONTENT;

SOIL SURVEYS;

MEASUREMENT METHOD; RETENTION; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL WATER; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 67349113402     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.04.014     Document Type: Article

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