Cation Exchange and Reducing Capacities as Criteria for Compost Quality

Biological Agriculture and Horticulture

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 187-197

  Jokova, Maria ^a   Kostov, Ognian ^a   Van Cleemput, Oswald ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE   (Bulgaria)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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EID: 16944366519     PISSN: 01448765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01448765.1997.9754809     Document Type: Article

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