Delineating site-specific quality-based management zones for a tobacco field

Soil Science

Volumn 176, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 206-212

  Jiang, Hou Long ^a   Liu, Guo Shun ^a   Wang, Rui ^b   Liu, Shu Duan ^c   Han, Fu Gen ^a   Yang, Yong Feng ^a   Ye, Xie Feng ^a   Zhang, Qiu Ju ^a   Wang, Xue Jing ^a   Wang, Zhen Hai ^c   Hu, Hong Chao ^d  

^a HENAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Enshi Tobacco Company of Hubei Province   (China)

^c Nanyang Tobacco Company   (China)

^d Pingdingshan Tobacco Company   (China)

Author keywords

geostatistics; Management zone; spatial variability; stepwise multiple regression analysis; tobacco field

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GEOSTATISTICS; HETEROGENEITY; LIMITING FACTOR; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL PROPERTY; TOBACCO;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 79955101309     PISSN: 0038075X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SS.0b013e3182121453     Document Type: Article

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