Long-term Agro-ecosystem Research in the Central Mississippi River Basin, USA: Introduction, Establishment, and Overview
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Little documentation of the watershed as a whole has been published, and only limited site descriptions have been collected into internal documents. One abstract described background information prior to the early 1990’s (Hjelmfelt et al., 1990). Alberts et al. (1993) and Ward et al. (1993; 1994) described the collection of water quality data that started during 1991-1992. Sadler et al. (2006) provided the first comprehensive documentation of the research infrastructure. Lerch et al. (2008) gave an overview of related research in the encompassing Salt River Basin. The series of papers introduced here serves to complete the documentation.
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Long-term agroecosystem research in the central Mississippi river basin: introduction, establishment, and overview.
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