Dual-scale micro-CT assessment of soil structure in a long-term fertilization experiment

Geoderma

Volumn 204-205, Issue , 2013, Pages 84-93

  Dal Ferro, N ^a   Charrier, P ^b   Morari, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Long term experiment; Pore size distribution; Soil organic carbon; X ray microtomography

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF ANISOTROPY; INSTRUMENTAL RESOLUTION; LONG-TERM EXPERIMENTS; LONG-TERM FERTILIZATION EXPERIMENTS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; X RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

AGGREGATES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA INTEGRATION; EXPERIMENTS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; MANURES; MORPHOLOGY; PORE SIZE;

SOILS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL STRUCTURE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ITALY;

EID: 84877913385     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.04.012     Document Type: Article

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