Nitrogen balances at ecosystem, landscape, regional, and global scales

Nitrogen in Agricultural Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 731-758

  Groffman, Peter M ^a  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem scale; Global scale; Landscape scale; Nitrogen balance; Regional scale; Soil variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85103052335     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/agronmonogr49.c19     Document Type: Chapter

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