Rejoinder to Comments on Minasny et al., 2017 Soil carbon 4 per mille Geoderma 292, 59–86

Geoderma

Volumn 309, Issue , 2018, Pages 124-129

  Minasny, Budiman ^a   Arrouays, Dominique ^b   McBratney, Alex B ^a   Angers, Denis A ^c   Chambers, Adam ^d   Chaplot, Vincent ^e   Chen, Zueng Sang ^f   Cheng, Kun ^g   Das, Bhabani S ^h   Field, Damien J ^a   Gimona, Alessandro ⁱ   Hedley, Carolyn ^j   Hong, Suk Young ^k   Mandal, Biswapati ^l   Malone, Brendan P ^a   Marchant, Ben P ^m   Martin, Manuel ^b   McConkey, Brian G ^b   Mulder, Vera Leatitia ⁿ   O'Rourke, Sharon ^o   Richer de Forges, Anne C ^b   Odeh, Inakwu ^a   Padarian, José ^a   Paustian, Keith ^p   Pan, Genxing ^g   Poggio, Laura ⁱ   Savin, Igor ^q   Stolbovoy, Vladimir ^r   Stockmann, Uta ^a   Sulaeman, Yiyi ^s   Tsui, Chun Chih ^f   Vågen, Tor Gunnar ^t   van Wesemael, Bas ^u   Winowiecki, Leigh ^t   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Centre de recherche d'Orléans   (France)

^c SWIFT CURRENT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^d USDA NRCS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^f NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

ⁱ SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^j LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^k National Institute of Animal Science   (South Korea)

^l BIDHAN CHANDRA KRISHI VISWAVIDYALAYA   (India)

^m BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^o UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^p Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^q PEOPLES FRIENDSHIP UNIVERSITY OF RUSSIA   (Russian Federation)

^r DOKUCHAEV SOIL SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^s INDONESIAN AGENCY FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Indonesia)

^t WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^u UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

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EID: 85021304417     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.05.026     Document Type: Letter

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