Plant-available soil water capacity: estimation methods and implications

The plant-available water capacity of the soil is defined as the water content between field capacity and wilting point, and has wide practical application in planning the land use. In a representative profile of the Cerrado Oxisol, methods for estimating the wilting point were studied and compared,...

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Main Authors: Bruno Montoani Silva, Érika Andressa da Silva, Geraldo César de Oliveira, Mozart Martins Ferreira, Milson Evaldo Serafim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo 2014-04-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-06832014000200011&lng=en&tlng=en