Preface Modeling soil system: Complexity under your feet

Biogeosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3139-3142

  De Bartolo, S ^a   Otten, W ^b   Cheng, Q ^c   Tarquis, A M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d CEIGRAM   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 80755125294     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-8-3139-2011     Document Type: Review

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