Morphological characterisation of weathered earthworm casts by 2D-image analysis

Biology and Fertility of Soils

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 845-849

  Bottinelli, N ^a,b,c   Jouquet, P ^d,e   Tran, T Duc ^d   Hallaire, V ^a,b  

^a UMR SAS   (France)

^b AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

^c Centre INRA de Nancy   (France)

^d IRD SFRI   (Viet Nam)

^e UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

2D image analysis; Pore space characterisation; Shape of soil aggregates

Indexed keywords

EARTHWORM; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PORE SPACE; RAINFALL; SOIL AGGREGATE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

AMYNTHAS;

EID: 84867679365     PISSN: 01782762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00374-012-0674-5     Document Type: Article

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