Establishing a minimum dataset for soil quality assessment based on soil properties and land-use changes

Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2715-2724

  Li, Guilin ^a,b   Chen, Jie ^a   Sun, Zhiying ^a,b   Tan, Manzhi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

land use change; minimum dataset; soil quality assessment; statistical technique; temporal scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547839699     PISSN: 18722032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1872-2032(07)60059-6     Document Type: Article

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