Soil bulk density pedotransfer functions of the humus horizon in arable soils

Geoderma

Volumn 163, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 74-82

  Suuster, Elsa ^a   Ritz, Christian ^b   Roostalu, Hugo ^a   Reintam, Endla ^a   Kõlli, Raimo ^a   Astover, Alar ^a  

^a ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Mixed model; Organic carbon; Prediction quality; Sampling depth; Soil bulk density; Water content

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ARABLE SOILS; DATA SETS; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; INPUT VARIABLES; LINEAR MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MIXED MODELS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTIONS; PREDICTION ACCURACY; PREDICTION MODEL; PREDICTION QUALITY; PREDICTIVE MODELS; REGRESSION MODEL; SITE PRODUCTIVITY; SOIL BULK DENSITY; SOIL COMPACTION; SOIL CONDITIONS; SOIL MONITORING; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL SAMPLING;

FORECASTING; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORGANIC CARBON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; WATER CONTENT;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; BULK DENSITY; COMPACTION; HUMUS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC CARBON; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; PREDICTION; SAMPLING; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL SURVEY; SOIL WATER;

ESTONIA;

EID: 79955967493     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2011.04.005     Document Type: Article

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