Ecology-based agriculture and the next green revolution: Is modern agriculture exempt from the laws of ecology?

Sustainable Agroecosystem Management: Integrating Ecology, Economics, and Society

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 97-135

  Phelan, P Larry ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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