Development of a method for estimating the likelihood of crack flow in Canadian agricultural soils at the landscape scale

Canadian Journal of Soil Science

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 129-149

  Dadfar, Humaira ^a   Allaire, Suzanne E ^b   De Jong, Reinder ^c   Van Bochove, Eric ^a   Denault, Jean Thomas ^a   Thériault, George ^a   Dechmi, Farida ^d  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c OTTAWA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^d Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón IA2   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agrichemicals; Contaminant transport; Macropore flow; Preferential flow; Risk assessment; Risk indicators

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; AGROCHEMICAL; CRACK; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUNOFF; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER BUDGET;

CANADA; MANITOBA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 77949800378     PISSN: 00084271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4141/CJSS09066     Document Type: Article

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