Data management for monitoring forest soils in Europe for the Biosoil project

Soil Use and Management

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-65

  Lacarce, E ^a   Le Bas, C ^a   Cousin, J L ^b   Pesty, B ^b   Toutain, B ^a   Houston Durrant, T ^c   Montanarella, L ^c  

^a Info Sols Unit   (France)

^b IFN   (France)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biosoil; Databases; Monitoring; Quality assurance quality control

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOREST SOIL; MONITORING; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 60749137672     PISSN: 02660032     EISSN: 14752743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-2743.2009.00194.x     Document Type: Article

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