Soil-plant interaction monitoring: Small scale example of an apple orchard in Trentino, North-Eastern Italy

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 543, Issue , 2016, Pages 851-861

  Cassiani, Giorgio ^a   Boaga, Jacopo ^a   Rossi, Matteo ^a   Putti, Mario ^a   Fadda, Giuseppe ^a   Majone, Bruno ^b   Bellin, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hydrogeophysics; Irrigation experiments; Root activity; Vadose zone

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; FARMS; FRUITS; IRRIGATION; ORCHARDS; SOFTWARE TESTING; SOILS; TOMOGRAPHY;

CONTROLLED IRRIGATIONS; ELECTRICAL TOMOGRAPHY; HYDROGEOPHYSICS; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; REPEATED MEASUREMENTS; ROOT ACTIVITIES; VADOSE ZONE; WATER REDISTRIBUTION;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IRRIGATION; MOISTURE CONTENT; ORCHARD; ROOT; SALINITY; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SUBSOIL; VADOSE ZONE; WATER EXCHANGE;

APPLE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGY; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); ITALY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; ORCHARD; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SOIL PLANT INTERACTION; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER TRANSPORT;

ITALY; TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE; TRENTO;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 84926177976     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.03.113     Document Type: Article

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