Calibration of a water content reflectometer and soil water dynamics for an agroforestry practice

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-75

  Udawatta, Ranjith P ^a   Anderson, Stephen H ^a   Motavalli, Peter P ^a   Garrett, Harold E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Corn soybean; CS615; CS616; Sensitivity analyses; Soil water sensors

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; CALIBRATION; CLAY; DIURNAL VARIATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MAIZE; REFLECTOMETRY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SILTY LOAM; SOIL WATER; SOYBEAN; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER CONTENT;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79954598410     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-010-9362-3     Document Type: Article

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