Compositional analysis for an unbiased measure of soil aggregation

Geoderma

Volumn 179-180, Issue , 2012, Pages 123-131

  Parent, Léon E ^a   de Almeida, Cinara X ^b   Hernandes, Amanda ^b   Egozcue, Juan J ^c   Gülser, Coskun ^d   Bolinder, Martin A ^a,e   Kätterer, Thomas ^e   Andrén, Olof ^e   Parent, Serge E ^a   Anctil, François ^a   Centurion, José F ^b   Natale, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Balances between aggregate size fractions; Compositional data; Data amalgamation; Fractal models; Isometric log ratios; Mean weight diameter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858711885     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.02.022     Document Type: Note

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