Soils of the mediterranean region, their characteristics, management and sustainable use

Sustainable Land Management: Learning from the Past for the Future

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 125-142

  Zdruli, Pandi ^a   Kapur, Selim ^b   Çelik, Ismail ^b  

^a ISTITUTO AGRONOMICO MEDITERRANEO   (Italy)

^b CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Classification; Human pressures; Mediterranean; Soil descriptions; Use and management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889810662     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14782-1_4     Document Type: Chapter

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