Estimating the Soil Hydraulic Functions of Some Olive Orchards: Soil Management Implications for Water Saving in Soils of Salento Peninsula (Southern Italy)

Estimating the Soil Hydraulic Functions of Some Olive Orchards: Soil Management Implications for Water Saving in Soils of Salento Peninsula (Southern Italy)

Saving water resources in agriculture is a topic of current research in Mediterranean environments, and rational soil management can allow such purposes. The Beerkan Estimation of Soil Transfer parameters (BEST) procedure was applied in five olive orchards of Salento peninsula (southern Italy) to es...

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Main Authors: Mirko Castellini, Anna Maria Stellacci, Marcello Mastrangelo, Francesco Caputo, Luisa Maria Manici
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-01-01
Series:Agronomy
Subjects:
soil tillage
olive orchard
best procedure
soil water retention curve
bulk density
air capacity
plant available water capacity
relative field capacity
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/10/2/177

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