Relationships Between Soil Nitrogen Availability Indices, Yield, and Nitrogen Accumulation of Wheat
Fran Walley*,a,
Thomas Yatesa,
Jan-Willem van Groenigenb and
Chris van Kesselc
a Dep. of Soil Science, 51 Campus Drive, Univ. of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, S7N 5A8
b Dep. of Water and Environment, Alterra, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, the Netherlands
c Dep. of Agronomy and Range Science, Univ. of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616

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Fig. 1. Correlations between aboveground N accumulation in the crop and soil properties, elevation, yield, and N accumulation across the landscape.
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Fig. 2. Experimental and modeled crossvariograms of the soil N availability indices and aboveground N accumulation in the crop.
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Copyright © 2002 by the Soil Science Society of America.