Comments on "J. Vera et al., Soil water balance trial involving capacitance and neutron probe measurements" [Agric. Water Manage. 96 (2009) 905-911]

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 182-184

  Evett, Steven R ^a   Schwartz, Robert C ^a  

^a USDA ARS Conservation and Production Research Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitance sensor; Crop water use; Neutron moisture meter; Soil water content

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349974805     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2009.07.015     Document Type: Letter

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