Changes in land use alter soil quality and aggregate stability in the highlands of northern Ethiopia

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Delelegn, Yoseph T ^a   Purahong, Witoon ^b   Blazevic, Amila ^a   Yitaferu, Birru ^c   Wubet, Tesfaye ^b   Göransson, Hans ^a   Godbold, Douglas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c ARARI Amhara Regional Agricultural Research Institute   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; CROPLAND; ETHIOPIA; EUCALYPTUS; FOREST; GRASSLAND; MYCORRHIZA; NONHUMAN; PLANTATION; SOIL QUALITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY;

EID: 85031899536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-14128-y     Document Type: Article

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