Articles | Volume 6, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-6-515-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-6-515-2015
Research article
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21 May 2015
Research article |  | 21 May 2015

Evaluation of soil fertility in the succession of karst rocky desertification using principal component analysis

L. W. Xie, J. Zhong, F. F. Chen, F. X. Cao, J. J. Li, and L. C. Wu

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