Articles | Volume 13, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-527-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-527-2016
Research article
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28 Jan 2016
Research article |  | 28 Jan 2016

Soil carbon sequestration by three perennial legume pastures is greater in deeper soil layers than in the surface soil

X.-K. Guan, N. C. Turner, L. Song, Y.-J. Gu, T.-C. Wang, and F.-M. Li

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