Soil Biodiversity and the Environment

Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Volumn 40, Issue , 2015, Pages 63-90

  Nielsen, Uffe N ^a   Wall, Diana H ^b   Six, Johan ^c  

^a WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Ecosystem function; Global change; Land use; Management practices

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; LAND USE; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; GLOBAL CHANGE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 84946826693     PISSN: 15435938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-102014-021257     Document Type: Article

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