Articles | Volume 5, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-5-351-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-5-351-2019
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10 Dec 2019
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Base cations in the soil bank: non-exchangeable pools may sustain centuries of net loss to forestry and leaching

Nicholas P. Rosenstock, Johan Stendahl, Gregory van der Heijden, Lars Lundin, Eric McGivney, Kevin Bishop, and Stefan Löfgren

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