Charcoal making in the Brazilian Amazon: Economic aspects of production and carbon conversion efficiencies of kilns

Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 411-422

  Swami, S N ^a   Steiner, C ^b   Teixeira, W G ^a   Lehmann, J ^c  

^a EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^b University of Georgia   (United States)

^c Cornell University ^*  (United States)

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EID: 84880266677     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9031-8_23     Document Type: Chapter

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