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| 29 Feb 2016
Soil properties and not inputs control carbon : nitrogen : phosphorus ratios in cropped soils in the long term
Emmanuel Frossard
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Group of Plant Nutrition, Institute of Agricultural
Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Nina Buchmann
Group of Grassland Sciences, Institute of Agricultural
Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Else K. Bünemann
Group of Plant Nutrition, Institute of Agricultural
Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Delwende I. Kiba
Group of Plant Nutrition, Institute of Agricultural
Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
INERA, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
François Lompo
INERA, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Astrid Oberson
Group of Plant Nutrition, Institute of Agricultural
Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Federica Tamburini
Group of Plant Nutrition, Institute of Agricultural
Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Ouakoltio Y. A. Traoré
Group of Plant Nutrition, Institute of Agricultural
Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
INERA, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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