Soil microbial diversity and ecosystem functioning in smallholder African agroecosystems

In this dissertation I assess the effect of fertilizer-based efforts to increase crop yields on smallholder African farms (the African Green Revolution) on the diversity and functional capacity of soil microbial communities and the ecosystem processes they regulate. In the introduction I provide a b...

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Main Author: Wood, Stephen Andrew
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7916/D8902335