An overview of soil quality;Uma visão sobre qualidade do solo

Revista Brasileira de Ciencia do Solo

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 743-755

  Vezzani, Fabiane Machado ^a   Mielniczuk, João ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Energy flow; Non equilibrium thermodynamics; Order states; Systemic approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 72649103389     PISSN: 01000683     EISSN: 18069657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0100-06832009000400001     Document Type: Article

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