Environmental impacts of nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in grassland systems

Outlook on Agriculture

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 117-127

  Watson, Catherine J ^a   Foy, R H ^a  

^a AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

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