A novel soil wetting technique for measuring wet stable aggregates

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 141, Issue , 2014, Pages 19-24

  Sun, T ^a   Chen, Q ^a,b   Chen, Y ^a   Cruse, R M ^d   Li, X F ^a   Song, C Y ^a   Kravchenko, Y S ^c   Zhang, X Y ^a  

^a NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LIFE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Measurement; Soil organic matter; Soil wet stable aggregates; Stability; Tillage system

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MEASUREMENTS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; STABILITY; WETTING;

AGGREGATE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; AGGREGATE STABILITY; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; STABLE AGGREGATES; TILLAGE SYSTEM;

AGGREGATES;

AGGREGATE SIZE; AGGREGATE STABILITY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL QUALITY; TILLAGE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WETTING-DRYING CYCLE;

EID: 84898943268     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2014.03.009     Document Type: Article

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