Comparisons of soil surface sealing methods to reduce fumigant emission loss

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1480-1487

  Gao, Suduan ^a   Hanson, Bradley D ^a   Qin, Ruijun ^a   Wang, Dong ^a   Yates, Scott R ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b U S SALINITY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; APPLICATION RATES; BARE SOILS; CALIFORNIA; DAIRY MANURES; DYNAMIC FLUX CHAMBER; EMISSION REDUCTION; FIELD DATA; FIELD OPERATION; FIELD PLOT; FUMIGANT EMISSION; GLUE JOINT; REGULATORY AGENCIES; SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY; SANDY LOAM SOILS; SOIL FUMIGANTS; SOIL PROFILES; SOIL SURFACES; SURFACE SOIL; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION;

EXPERIMENTS; FUMIGATION; HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENES; MANURES;

SOILS;

1,3 DICHLOROPROPNENE(1,3 DEXTRO); FUMIGANT; POLYETHYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MANURE; MATERIALS; NONHUMAN; PEST CONTROL; SANDY LOAM; SOIL FUMIGATION; SURFACE SOIL; UNITED STATES; VIRTUALLY IMPERMEABLE FILM; WATER TREATMENT; AIR POLLUTANT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FUMIGATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; SOIL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; FUMIGATION; SOIL;

EID: 80053077461     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: 15372537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2009.0422     Document Type: Article

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