CT-measured macropores as affected by agroforestry and grass buffers for grazed pasture systems

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-65

  Kumar, Sandeep ^a   Anderson, Stephen H ^a   Udawatta, Ranjith P ^a   Gantzer, Clark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Agroforestry buffer (AgB); Computed tomography (CT); Continuously grazed pasture (CG); Grass buffer (GB); Macroporosity; Mesoporosity; Rotationally grazed pasture (RG)

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; BUFFER ZONE; BULK DENSITY; GRASS; GRAZING; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMAGE; MACROPORE; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PASTURE; SCANNER; SILTY LOAM; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL WATER; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

EID: 77952322844     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-009-9264-4     Document Type: Article

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