Water resources: Agricultural and environmental issues

BioScience

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 909-918

  Pimentel, David ^a   Berger, Bonnie ^a   Filiberto, David ^a   Newton, Michelle ^a   Wolfe, Benjamin ^a   Karabinakis, Elizabeth ^a   Clark, Steven ^a   Poon, Elaine ^a   Abbett, Elizabeth ^a   Nandagopal, Sudha ^a  

^a Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Environmental policy; Water resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 5444271969     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0909:WRAAEI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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