Development of pedotransfer functions for predicting the bulk density in the critical zone on the Loess Plateau, China

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 366-372

  Qiao, Jiangbo ^a   Zhu, Yuanjun ^a   Jia, Xiaoxu ^b   Huang, Laiming ^b   Shao, Ming’an ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Artificial neuron network; Bulk density; Multiple linear regression; Pedotransfer function

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BEDROCK; BULK DENSITY; CRITICAL FLOW; DRILLING; LOESS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL TEXTURE;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 85047662064     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: 16147480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-018-2040-1     Document Type: Article

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