Forecasting Agriculturally Driven Global Environmental Change

By David Tilman, J. Fargione, Brian Wolff, Carla M. D'Antonio, A. Dobson, R. Howarth, D. Schindler, W. Schlesinger, Daniel Simberloff, D. Swackhamer. Science, 2001

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