Application of soil quality indices to assess the status of agricultural soils irrigated with treated wastewaters

Solid Earth

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 119-127

  Morugan Coronado A ^a   Arcenegui, V ^a   Garcia Orenes F ^a   Mataix Solera, J ^a   Mataix Beneyto, J ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOILS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; SEMI-ARID REGION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER CONTENTS; SOIL QUALITY INDEX; TREATED WASTEWATER; UNDISTURBED SOILS;

ARID REGIONS; IRRIGATION; QUALITY CONTROL; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; IRRIGATION; ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL QUALITY; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SPAIN;

EID: 84892657404     PISSN: 18699510     EISSN: 18699529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/se-4-119-2013     Document Type: Article

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