Modelling trade-offs between ecosystem services and agricultural production in Western Australia

iEMSs 2012 - Managing Resources of a Limited Planet: Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2202-2210

  Kragt, Marit E ^a,b   Robertson, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agriculture; APSIM; Conservation practices; Ecosystem services

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894157097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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