Management intensity - not biodiversity - the driver of ecosystem services in a long-term row crop experiment

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 138, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 242-248

  Snapp, Sieglinde S ^a   Gentry, Lowell E ^a   Harwood, Richard ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop diversity; Nitrogen cycle; Organic; Soil carbon; Sustainable agriculture

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CROP YIELD; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD QUALITY; LYSIMETER; NITROGEN CYCLE; PROTEIN; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; SERVICE PROVISION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL NITROGEN; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER QUALITY;

MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77955086272     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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