Agriculture intensifies soil moisture decline in Northern China

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Liu, Yaling ^a,b,c   Pan, Zhihua ^a   Zhuang, Qianlai ^b,d   Miralles, Diego G ^e,f   Teuling, Adriaan J ^g   Zhang, Tonglin ^b   An, Pingli ^a   Dong, Zhiqiang ^a   Zhang, Jingting ^a   He, Di ^a   Wang, Liwei ^a   Pan, Xuebiao ^a   Bai, Wei ^h   Niyogi, Dev ^b,d  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^g WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h CHINA RURAL TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER; SOIL; WATER;

CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CROP; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; SEASON; SOIL;

CHINA; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FERTILIZERS; SEASONS; SOIL; WATER;

EID: 84953867186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11261     Document Type: Article

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