The Salinity of Motorway Soils. I. Variation in Time and Between Regions in the Salinity of Soils on Central Reserves
- 1 April 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Applied Ecology
- Vol. 23 (1), 251-267
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2403095
Abstract
(1) Sodium chloride is used as the standard de-icing agent on motorways in England at annual application rates varying from 2 to 20 tonnes per lane km. (2) The ...This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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