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Original Articles

Loss‐on‐Ignition in the Determination of Pools of Organic Carbon in Soils of Forests and Afforested Arable Fields

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Pages 1059-1075 | Received 09 Mar 2004, Accepted 30 Aug 2005, Published online: 05 Feb 2007

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