Review of Current Status and Research Approaches to Nitrogen Pollution in Farmlands

Agricultural Sciences in China

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 843-849

  NIE, Sheng wei ^a   GAO, Wang sheng ^a   CHEN, Yuan quan ^a   SUI, Peng ^a   Eneji, A Egrinya ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; farmlands; methods; N pollution; review

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650729041     PISSN: 16712927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1671-2927(08)60286-2     Document Type: Article

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