Identification of the important environmental factors influencing natural vegetation succession following cropland abandonment on the Loess Plateau, China.

PeerJ · 2020 · PMC7668204 · PMID 33240658

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Likewise, it was observed that most of the investigated soil nutrient variables and soil texture-related variables improved with the vegetation succession while soil water in the surface layers showed a decreasing trend.

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