Modeling apparent nitrogen mineralization under field conditions using regressions and artificial neural networks

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1159-1168

  Alvarez, Roberto ^a   Steinbach, Haydée S ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

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EID: 79960680846     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: 14350645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2010.0254     Document Type: Article

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