Soils of inland valleys of West Africa: General fertility parameters

Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 71-80

  Issaka, Roland Nuhu ^a   Masunaga, Tsugiyuki ^a   Kosaki, Takashi ^a,b   Wakatsuki, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fertility parameters; Inland valleys; Intense leaching; Intense weathering; West Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011489077     PISSN: 00380768     EISSN: 17470765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00380768.1996.10414690     Document Type: Article

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