The use of visual soil assessment schemes to evaluate surface structure in a soil monitoring program

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 127, Issue , 2013, Pages 3-12

  Murphy, Brian W ^a   Crawford, Mark H ^a   Duncan, David A ^b   McKenzie, David C ^c   Koen, Terry B ^a  

^a OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^b Sustainable Soil Management   (Australia)

^c McKenzie Soil Management Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Self mulching; Sodicity; Soil monitoring; Soil structure; Visual soil assessment

Indexed keywords

SELF-MULCHING; SODICITY; SOIL ASSESSMENT; SOIL MONITORING; SOIL STRUCTURE;

AGRONOMY;

SOILS;

CLAY LOAM; MULCHING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SODIC SOIL; SODICITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL STRUCTURE; SOIL TEXTURE; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TOPSOIL; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84872273288     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2012.06.003     Document Type: Article

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