The concept and future prospects of soil health

2020/08/25 by Johannes Lehmann, Déborah Bossio, Deborah A. Bossio +3 · 41 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Agriculture #Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics #Soil Geostatistics and Mapping

paper · doi:10.1038/s43017-020-0080-8

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