Estimating the size of the inert organic matter pool from total soil organic carbon content for use in the Rothamsted carbon model

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 8-9, 1998, Pages 1207-1211

  Falloon, Pete ^a   Smith, Pete ^a   Coleman, Kevin ^a   Marshall, Stewart ^b  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC MATTER; SIZE; SOIL;

EID: 0032146639     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-0717(97)00256-3     Document Type: Article

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