Articles | Volume 1, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-1-695-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-1-695-2015
Original research article
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10 Dec 2015
Original research article |  | 10 Dec 2015

Local versus field scale soil heterogeneity characterization – a challenge for representative sampling in pollution studies

Z. Kardanpour, O. S. Jacobsen, and K. H. Esbensen

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