Soil inoculation steers restoration of terrestrial Ecosystems

Nature Plants

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Wubs, E R Jasper ^a,b   Van Der Putten, Wim H ^a,b   Bosch, Machiel ^c   Bezemer, T Martijn ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Vereniging Natuurmonumenten   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; GRASSLAND; MICROBIOLOGY; NETHERLANDS;

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND REMEDIATION; GRASSLAND; NETHERLANDS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84985942475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NPLANTS.2016.107     Document Type: Article

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