Deep drainage and soil salt loads in the Queensland Murray-Darling Basin using soil chloride: Comparison of land uses

Soil Research

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 408-423

  Tolmie, P E ^a   Silburn, D M ^a,b   Biggs, A J W ^a,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^b EWATER COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

cracking clay; cropping; dryland salinity; native vegetation; pasture; steady state mass balance; transient mass balance

Indexed keywords

CROPPING; DRYLAND SALINITY; MASS BALANCE; NATIVE VEGETATION; PASTURE;

AGRICULTURE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; GROUNDWATER; LEACHING; RAIN; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; VEGETATION; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL;

CATCHMENTS;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CHLORIDE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRAINAGE; DRYLAND FARMING; LAND USE; MASS BALANCE; PASTURE; REGOLITH; RHIZOSPHERE; SALINITY; SAMPLING; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL TYPE; SOIL WATER POTENTIAL;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 79960372201     PISSN: 1838675X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SR10172     Document Type: Article

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