X Fan, X Wu, J Zhou, L Wan - Geoderma, 2024 - Elsevier
Soil aggregate mechanical properties are of vital importance for plant growth, tillage and soil erosion, and strongly conditioned by the amount and type of cementing agents that differ …
G Kayser, M Graf‐Rosenfellner… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Soil structural traits provide links between soil structure and ecosystem functioning. The size and stability of soil aggregates are assumed to provide information on aggregate formation …
LA Pires Barbosa, HH Gerke - Available at SSRN 3998891, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
Planes of weakness (ie cracks) existing in the soil matrix propagate creating fracture surfaces and fragmenting the clod into smaller clods. The fracture topography (ie roughness) …