Inventory of methane and nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils of India and their global warming potential

Current Science

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 317-324

  Bhatia, Arti ^a   Pathak, H ^a   Aggarwal, P K ^a  

^a INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

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