Degradation and resilience of soils

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 352, Issue 1356, 1997, Pages 997-1010

  Lal, R ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAND DEGRADATION; NATURAL RESOURCES; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL REHABILITATION; SOIL RESILIENCE;

EID: 0030871795     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1997.0078     Document Type: Article

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