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Biogeochemistry and landscape fertility

Informally Refereed
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Abstract

Choosing sustainable and efficient practices to manage urban and community landscapes can be made a little easier by understanding how the natural environment functions. Nobody regularly fertilizes rural or wild forests yet they can be healthy and diverse natural communities. Yet in the urban and community landscape, fertilization is one of the most common practices.

Citation

Smith, Kevin T. 2010. Biogeochemistry and landscape fertility. The Landsculptor, February: 43-45.