Water-related physical attributes of organic soils

Organic Soils and Peat Materials for Sustainable Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 33-66

  Brandyk, Tomasz ^a   Szatylowicz, Jan ^a   Oleszczuk, Ryszard ^a   Gnatowski, Tomasz ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SHRINKAGE; SOIL MOISTURE;

CHARACTERISTIC CURVE; MOISTURE DISTRIBUTION; MOISTURE RETENTION; PEDO-TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; SHRINKAGE GEOMETRY; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; UNSATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; WATER RETENTION CHARACTERISTICS;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

EID: 85056969239     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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