Applied and Environmental Soil Science
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 219379, 14 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/219379
Research Article
Tillage Effects on Spatiotemporal Variability of Particulate Organic Matter
1Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
2Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Received 19 December 2008; Revised 29 April 2009; Accepted 20 August 2009
Academic Editor: Oliver Dilly
Copyright © 2009 Juhwan Lee et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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