Earthworms influenced by reduced tillage, conventional tillage and energy forest in Swedish agricultural field experiments

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section B: Soil and Plant Science

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 235-244

  Lagerlöf, Jan ^a   Pålsson, Olof ^a   Arvidsson, Johan ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ecological groups of earthworms; energy forest plantation; field sampling methods; Salix; soil cultivation

Indexed keywords

ALLOLOBOPHORA CHLOROTICA; LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS; SALIX; SALIX VIMINALIS;

EID: 84859297764     PISSN: 09064710     EISSN: 16511913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09064710.2011.602717     Document Type: Article

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