Reducing the Nitrogen Load to the Baltic Sea by Increasing the Efficiency of Recycling within the Agricultural System: Experience of Ecological Agriculture in Sweden and Finland

Landbauforschung Volkenrode

Volumn 50, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 95-102

  Granstedt, Artur ^a  

^a The Biodynamic Research Institute   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agro ecosystem; Baltic Sea; Ecological agriculture; Farming system; Nitrogen surplus; Nutrient balance; Nutrient leaching; Nutrient recycling efficiency; Organic farming

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011127860     PISSN: 04586859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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