Estimating the Contribution of Sampling, Sample Pretreatment, and Analysis in the Total Uncertainty Budget of Agricultural Soil pH and Organic Carbon Monitoring

Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 984-1002

  Tirez, Kristof ^a   Vanhoof, Chris ^a   Hofman, Siegfried ^a   Deproost, Petra ^b   Swerts, Martine ^b   Salomez, Joost ^b  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^b Environment Nature and Energy Department ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Monitoring procedure; soil organic carbon (SOC); soil pH; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; ANALYTICAL METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; ORGANIC CARBON; PH; SAMPLING; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 84897386060     PISSN: 00103624     EISSN: 15322416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00103624.2013.867056     Document Type: Article

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