Salinity status of the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami affected agricultural lands in northeast Japan

As Japan has abundant annual rainfall (1,000 to 2,500 mm), soil salinity of agricultural lands has rarely been a major problem. Following the 2011 earthquake in the Pacific, large stretches of land along the coast in northeast Japan were devastated by a powerful tsunami. Saltwater damage of agricult...

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Main Authors: Kingshuk Roy, Katsuhiro Sasada, Eiichi Kohno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2014-06-01
Series:International Soil and Water Conservation Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095633915300058