"Grain for green" driven land use change and carbon sequestration on the Loess Plateau, China

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages 7039-

  Deng, Lei ^a,b   Shangguan, Zhou ping ^a,b   Sweeney, Sandra ^c  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^c BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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EID: 84922565615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07039     Document Type: Article

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