Managing soils and ecosystems for mitigating anthropogenic carbon emissions and advancing global food security

BioScience

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 708-721

  Lal, Rattan ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; environment quality; food security; soil management

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957958203     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2010.60.9.8     Document Type: Article

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