Nitrous oxide emissions from the nitrogen cycle in livestock agriculture: Estimation and mitigation

Nitrous Oxide and Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 107-142

  de Klein, Cecile ^a   Eckard, Richard ^b   van der Weerden, Tony ^a  

^a AGRESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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