Derivation and validation of pedotransfer functions for estimating soil water retention curve using a variety of soil data

Soil Use and Management

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 68-74

  Dashtaki, S Ghorbani ^a   Homaee, M ^b   Khodaverdiloo, H ^c  

^a SHAHREKORD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c URMIA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Geometric mean diameter; Pedotransfer function; Retention curve; Rosetta package; Soil hydraulic functions

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; INDEX METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE PREPARATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL TEXTURE; SOIL WATER; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 77950126817     PISSN: 02660032     EISSN: 14752743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-2743.2009.00254.x     Document Type: Article

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