Soil health and sustainability: Managing the biotic component of soil quality

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 3-11

  Doran, John W ^a   Zeiss, Michael R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b 3 Nguyen Gia Thieu   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Ecosystem functions; Soil health; Soil quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033852272     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-1393(00)00067-6     Document Type: Article

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