Conventional tillage decreases the abundance and biomass of earthworms and alters their community structure in a global meta‐analysis

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  2017

• Venue

  Global Change Biology

• Publication date

  2017-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/gcb.13744PMID 28464547
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