Soil water availability for plants as quantified by conventional available water, least limiting water range and integral water capacity

Plant and Soil

Volumn 335, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 229-244

  Asgarzadeh, Hossein ^a   Mosaddeghi, Mohammad Reza ^b   Mahboubi, Ali Akbar ^a   Nosrati, Akram ^a   Dexter, Anthony Roger ^c  

^a BU ALI SINA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c STATE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Integral water capacity; Least limiting water range; Soil available water content; Soil mechanical resistance; Soil physical quality; Soil water retention

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; BULK DENSITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POROSITY; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL WATER; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER RETENTION;

HAMADAN; IRAN;

EID: 77956875676     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-010-0410-6     Document Type: Article

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