Using Moran's I and geostatistics to identify spatial patterns of soil nutrients in two different long-term phosphorus-application plots

Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science

Volumn 174, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 785-798

  Fu, Weijun ^a,b,c   Zhao, Keli ^a   Zhang, Chaosheng ^b   Tunney, Hubert ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c TEAGASC   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; GIS; Moran's I; Soil nutrients; Spatial cluster

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053193626     PISSN: 14368730     EISSN: 15222624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jpln.201000422     Document Type: Article

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