Soil quality changes under continuous cropping for seventeen seasons of an Alfisol in western Nigeria

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 259-274

  Lal, R ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL MANAGEMENT; TILLAGE;

NIGERIA;

EID: 0031794165     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-145X(199805/06)9:3<259::AID-LDR290>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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