Erosion and sedimentation effects on soil organic carbon redistribution in a complex landscape in Western Ecuador

Land-Use Change Impacts on Soil Processes: Tropical and Savannah Ecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 108-121

  Corre, Marife D ^a   Schoorl, Jeroen M ^b   De Koning, Free ^c   López Ulloa, Magdalena ^d   Veldkamp, Edzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Plan International Ecuador   (Ecuador)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMÉRICAS   (Ecuador)

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