An index of weed size for assessing the soil productivity of ancient crop fields

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-22

  Bogaard, A ^a   Hodgson, J G ^a   Wilson, P J ^a   Band, S R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crop husbandry; CSR strategy; Functional attributes; Soil productivity; Weed ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 21944443402     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01393414     Document Type: Article

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