Indicators of soil ecosystem services in conventional and organic arable fields along a gradient of landscape heterogeneity in southern Sweden

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 65, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-7

  Williams, Alwyn ^a   Hedlund, Katarina ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Carbon; Ecosystem services; Landscape complexity; Mycorrhizae; Soil microbial community

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873304189     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2012.12.019     Document Type: Article

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