Arsenic release from paddy soils during monsoonflooding

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-59

  Roberts, Linda C ^a,b   Hug, Stephan J ^a   Dittmar, Jessica ^b   Voegelin, Andreas ^a,b   Kretzschmar, Ruben ^b   Wehrli, Bernhard ^a,b   Cirpka, Olaf A ^c   Saha, Ganesh C ^d   Ashraf Ali, M ^e   Badruzzaman, A Borhan M ^e  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d DHAKA UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

^e BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

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EID: 73449088748     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo723     Document Type: Article

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