Tillage effects on topsoil structural quality assessed using X-ray CT, soil cores and visual soil evaluation

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 128, Issue , 2013, Pages 104-109

  Garbout, A ^a   Munkholm, L J ^a   Hansen, S B ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Soil structural quality; Tillage; Visual soil evaluation; X ray CT

Indexed keywords

BRANCH LENGTH; BULK DENSITY; BULK DENSITY MEASUREMENT; CORE METHOD; CT IMAGE; DEGREE OF ANISOTROPY; DIRECT DRILLING; FIELD EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DATA; MACRO PORES; MEDICAL X-RAYS; ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT; PORE NETWORKS; ROOT GROWTH; SANDY LOAMS; SOIL CORES; SOIL EVALUATION; SOIL POROSITY; SOIL STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL QUALITIES; STRUCTURAL STABILITIES; TILLAGE; TILLAGE EFFECTS; TILLAGE TREATMENT; TOP-SOIL LAYER; VISUAL ASSESSMENTS; VISUAL EVALUATION; WATER TRANSPORT; X RAY CT IMAGES; X-RAY CT;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; STABILITY; X RAYS;

SOILS;

BULK DENSITY; COMPACTION; CONSOLIDATION; MACROPORE; PORE SPACE; SANDY LOAM; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL STRUCTURE; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; TILLAGE; TOMOGRAPHY; TOPSOIL; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

DENMARK;

EID: 84871427217     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2012.11.003     Document Type: Article

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