Relationship between soil moisture and vegetation activity in the Mongolian steppe

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages 29-32

  Nandintsetseg, B ^a   Shinoda, M ^a   Kimura, R ^a   Ibaraki, Y ^b  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 77954821753     PISSN: 13496476     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2010-008     Document Type: Article

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