Soil sampling in oil palm plantations: a practical design that accounts for lateral variability at the tree scale

Plant and Soil

Volumn 394, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 421-429

  Nelson, Paul N ^a   Banabas, Murom ^b   Goodrick, Iain ^a   Webb, Michael J ^c   Huth, Neil I ^c   O’Grady, Damien ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PNG Oil Palm Research Association   (Papua New Guinea)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Elaeis guineensis (Jacq.); Sampling design; Soil analysis; Soil carbon; Spatial variability; Tree crop

Indexed keywords

CROP PLANT; DESIGN METHOD; MONOCOTYLEDON; PLANTATION; SAMPLING; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CARBON; SOIL PROPERTY; TRANSECT;

ELAEIS; ELAEIS GUINEENSIS;

EID: 84940435655     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: 15735036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-015-2490-9     Document Type: Article

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