'Without bamboo, the land dies': Nutrient cycling and biogeochemistry of a Javanese bamboo talun-kebun system

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 91, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 155-173

  Mailly, D ^a   Christanty, L ^b   Kimmins, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Indonesia; Shifting cultivation

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; BAMBOO; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CROP ROTATION; NUTRIENT CYCLING; TALUN-KEBUN SYSTEM;

INDONESIA, WEST JAVA;

EUPHORBIACEAE; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; POACEAE;

EID: 0030617090     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(96)03893-5     Document Type: Article

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