Irrigation depth far exceeds water uptake depth in an oasis cropland in the middle reaches of Heihe River Basin

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Yang, Bin ^a,b   Wen, Xuefa ^a   Sun, Xiaomin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

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EID: 84944404189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep15206     Document Type: Article

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