Soil water storage, drainage, and leaching in four irrigated cotton-based cropping systems sown in a Vertosol with subsoil sodicity

Soil Research

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 652-663

  Hulugalle, N R ^a   Weaver, T B ^a   Finlay, L A ^a  

^a Australian Cotton Research Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

Haplustert; hydrology; permanent bed; rotation; salinity; stubble retention; Vertisol

Indexed keywords

HAPLUSTERT; PERMANENT BED; SALINITY; STUBBLE RETENTIONS; VERTISOLS;

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; LEACHING; MAGNESIUM; ROTATION; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE;

COTTON;

CHEMICAL MASS BALANCE; COTTON; CROP ROTATION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LEACHATE; LEACHING; MOISTURE CONTENT; MONOCULTURE; RETENTION; RISK FACTOR; SALINITY; SODICITY; SOIL DRAINAGE; SOIL WATER; STUBBLE; SUBSOIL; VERTISOL; WATER STORAGE; WHEAT;

AUSTRALIA;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; VICIA; VICIA BENGHALENSIS;

EID: 84873376593     PISSN: 1838675X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SR12199     Document Type: Article

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