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Practical Resources
Ecological properties of earthworm burrows in an organically managed grass-clover system
Organic Eprints. 2012
Scientific Results
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and organic farming
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2006) 113:17-35
Diversity of rhizobia in soybean [
Glycine max
(Vinton)] nodules varies under organic and conventional management
Applied Soil Ecology (2011) 50: 14-20
Does soil biota benefit from organic farming in complex vs. simple landscapes?
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2011) 141: 210-214
Functional Gene Differences in Soil Microbial Communities from Conventional, Low-Input, and Organic Farmlands
Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2013) 79: 1284-1292
Impact of long-term conventional and organic farming on the diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Oecologia (2004) 138: 575-583
Microbial community composition and carbon cycling within soil microenvironments of conventional, low-input, and organic cropping systems
Soil Biology and Biochemistry (2010) 43: 20-30
Molecular diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in onion roots from organic and conventional farming systems in the Netherlands
Mycorrhiza (2009) 19: 317-328
Positive effects of organic farming on below-ground mutualists: large-scale comparison of mycorrhizal fungal communities in agricultural soils
New Phytologist (2010) 186: 968-979
Pyrosequencing Reveals the Influence of Organic and Conventional Farming Systems on Bacterial Communities
PLoS ONE 7(12): e51897
Spatial scaling of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity is affected by farming practice
Environmental Microbiology (2011) 13: 241-249
Structure, functions and interguild relationships of the soil nematode assemblage in organic vegetable production
Applied Soil Ecology (2012) 61: 16-25
For more information on the effects of organic agriculture on soil biology, please see the
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