Interactions between tillage and earthworms in agroecosystems

Soil Tillage in Agroecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 229-260

  Shuster, W D ^a   Edwards, C A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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AGRICULTURAL WASTES; AGRONOMY; CROPS; CULTIVATION; LAND USE; SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND USE; AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM; AGRO-ECOSYSTEMS; CROP PRODUCTION; FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS; PLANT PRODUCTION; SOIL ECOSYSTEMS; SOIL MANAGEMENT;

ECOSYSTEMS;

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