Citation: Dhanya Praveen, Ramachandran Andimuthu, K. Palanivelu. The urgent call for land degradation vulnerability assessment for conserving land quality in the purview of climate change: Perspective from South Indian Coast[J]. AIMS Agriculture and Food, 2016, 1(3): 330-341. doi: 10.3934/agrfood.2016.3.330
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