Are landscape complexity and farm specialisation related to land-use intensity of annual crop fields?

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 105, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 87-99

  Roschewitz, Indra ^a   Thies, Carsten ^a   Tscharntke, Teja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cereal fields; Conservation; Grassland; Lower Saxony (Germany); Nitrogen fertilisation; Pesticide use

Indexed keywords

ARABLE LAND; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; LOWER SAXONY; WORLD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 9644255732     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2004.05.010     Document Type: Article

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