Temporal dynamics of soil hydraulic properties and the water-conducting porosity under different tillage

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 89-98

  Schwen, Andreas ^a   Bodner, Gernot ^a   Scholl, Peter ^a   Buchan, Graeme D ^b   Loiskandl, Willibald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Hydraulic properties; Soil tillage; Temporal variability; Tension infiltrometer; Water conducting porosity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES; ESTIMATED PARAMETER; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; IMPACT FACTOR; INFLUENCE FACTORS; MACROPORES; MESO-PORES; MESOPORE; MODEL PARAMETERS; NO TILLAGE; PORE NETWORKS; PORE RADIUS; ROOT DEVELOPMENT; SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SILT LOAM SOILS; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SOIL STRUCTURE; SOIL TILLAGE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL STABILITY; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TENSION INFILTROMETER; TENSION INFILTROMETERS; WATER FLOWS; WETTING/DRYING CYCLES;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; BIOACTIVITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POROSITY; SILT;

AGRICULTURE;

CULTIVATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFILTROMETER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POROSITY; SILTY LOAM; SOIL STRUCTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TENSION; TILLAGE; TORTUOSITY; WATER FLOW;

EID: 79954610438     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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