Inability of Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (NIRS) to identify belowground earthworm casts in no-tillage soil

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 70, Issue , 2013, Pages 57-61

  Bottinelli, N ^a   Capowiez, Y ^b   Hallaire, V ^c,d   Ranger, J ^a   Jouquet, P ^e  

^a Centre INRA de Nancy   (France)

^b Domaine Saint Paul   (France)

^c UMR SAS   (France)

^d AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Control reference soil; Drilosphere; Earthworm casts; Soil spatial organisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878181600     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2013.04.006     Document Type: Article

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