Estimations of soil fertility in physically degraded agricultural soils  through selective accounting of fine earth and gravel fractions

Nagaraja, Mavinakoppa S.; Bhardwaj, Ajay Kumar; Reddy, G. V. Prabhakara; Srinivasamurthy, Chilakunda A.; Kumar, Sandeep

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-897-2016

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Estimations of soil fertility in physically degraded agricultural soils through selective accounting of fine earth and gravel fractions

Mavinakoppa S. Nagaraja, Ajay Kumar Bhardwaj, G. V. Prabhakara Reddy, Chilakunda A. Srinivasamurthy, and Sandeep Kumar

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