Articles | Volume 11, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-5103-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-5103-2014
Research article
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22 Sep 2014
Research article |  | 22 Sep 2014

Soil organic matter dynamics under different land use in grasslands in Inner Mongolia (northern China)

L. Zhao, W. Wu, X. Xu, and Y. Xu

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