Articles | Volume 8, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-683-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-683-2017
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20 Jun 2017
Research article |  | 20 Jun 2017

Assessing and analysing the impact of land take pressures on arable land

Ece Aksoy, Mirko Gregor, Christoph Schröder, Manuel Löhnertz, and Geertrui Louwagie

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