Influence of slope on physical soil disturbance due to farm tractor forwarding in a Hyrcanian forest of Northern Iran

IForest

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 342-348

  Jourgholami, Meghdad ^a   Soltanpour, Shoukuh ^a   Abari, Maryam Etehadi ^a   Zenner, Eric K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Farm tractor; Forwarding operation; Penetration resistance; Soil compaction; Total porosity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904297227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19717458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3832/ifor1141-007     Document Type: Article

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