Exploiting heterogeneity of soil organic matter in rangelands: Benefits for carbon sequestration

The Potential of U.S. Grazing Lands to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 121-138

  Bird, S B ^a   Herrick, J E ^a   Wander, M M ^b  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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