Soil quality assessment and long-term field observation with emphasis on biological soil characteristics

Biodiversity in Agricultural Production Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 399-424

  Oberholzer, Hans Rudolf ^a   Höper, Heinrich ^b  

^a Swiss Federal Research Station of Agroecology and Agriculture   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Soil Technology Bremen   (Germany)

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