How scalable is sustainable intensification?

Nature Plants

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Gunton, Richard M ^a   Firbank, Leslie G ^a   Inman, Alex ^b   Winter, D Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATERING SERVICE; CROP; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS;

EID: 84979235694     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NPLANTS.2016.65     Document Type: Note

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