Management impact on compaction in forest soils

The Potential of U.S. Forest Soils to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 239-256

  Lal, Rattan ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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