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Soil fertility

Cultivation effects on the carbon and nitrogen dynamics at depth in oasis farmlands of the Southern Tarim Basin, China

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Pages 287-294 | Received 18 Apr 2014, Accepted 02 Nov 2014, Published online: 26 Nov 2014

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