Articles | Volume 2, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-83-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-83-2016
Original research article
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29 Feb 2016
Original research article |  | 29 Feb 2016

Soil properties and not inputs control carbon : nitrogen : phosphorus ratios in cropped soils in the long term

Emmanuel Frossard, Nina Buchmann, Else K. Bünemann, Delwende I. Kiba, François Lompo, Astrid Oberson, Federica Tamburini, and Ouakoltio Y. A. Traoré

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