Integration of water, nutrient an carbon cycling under diverse annual perennial plant community systems in agricultural landscapes
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This study examined nutrient, water and carbon cycling processes and biodiversity patterns within replicated sub-watersheds that comprised different configurations of annual and perennial plant communities, ranging from conventional row crops to mixed annual and perennial systems to reconstructed native plant
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