Response of soil properties and microbial communities to agriculture: Implications for primary productivity and soil health indicators

Agricultural intensification is placing tremendous pressure on the soil’s capacity to maintain its functions leading to large-scale ecosystem degradation and loss of productivity in the long term. Therefore, there is an urgent need to find early-indicators of soil health degradation in response to a...

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Main Authors: Pankaj Trivedi, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Ian Anderson, Brajesh Singh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2016.00990/full