Integrated crop-livestock systems: Strategies to achieve synergy between agricultural production and environmental quality

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 190, Issue , 2014, Pages 4-8

  Lemaire, Gilles ^a   Franzluebbers, Alan ^b   Carvalho, Paulo César de Faccio ^c   Dedieu, Benoît ^d  

^a French Natl Inst Agr Res INRA   (France)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biogeochemical cycles; Carbon and nitrogen coupling; Crop livestock systems; Ecological intensification; Landscape ecology

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; FOOD PRODUCTION; MIXED FARMING; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 84901821962     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2013.08.009     Document Type: Article

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