Harvested perennial grasslands provide ecological benchmarks for agricultural sustainability

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 137, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 3-12

  Glover, Jerry D ^a   Culman, Steve W ^b   DuPont, S Tianna ^c   Broussard, Whitney ^d   Young, Lauren ^e   Mangan, Margaret E ^f   Mai, John G ^a   Crews, Timothy E ^g   DeHaan, Lee R ^a   Buckley, Daniel H ^b   Ferris, Howard ^c   Turner, R Eugene ^d   Reynolds, Heather L ^e   Wyse, Donald L ^f  

^a THE LAND INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^g PRESCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Low input; Nematodes; Soil carbon; Soil food webs; Soil quality; Tallgrass prairie

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; BENCHMARKING; CROP YIELD; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FOOD WEB; HARVESTING; NEMATODE; PRAIRIE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL QUALITY; WHEAT;

KANSAS; UNITED STATES;

HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 77950059738     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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