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Conservation agriculture and ecosystem services: An overview
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The potential and limitations of conservation agriculture for low productivity, small-scale farming systems in Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia is discussed in this article. But, the authors highlight some research priorities for ecosystem services in conservational agriculture.About:
This article is published in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment.The article was published on 2014-04-01. It has received 658 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Conservation agriculture & Soil quality.read more
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Bio-tillage: A new perspective for sustainable agriculture
Zhongbin Zhang,Xinhua Peng +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed bio-tillage, which is defined as improving soil structure with plant roots to boost the growth of crops, in order to improve soil structure and water and air conductivity by forming biopores.
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Ensuring planetary survival: the centrality of organic carbon in balancing the multifunctional nature of soils
Peter M. Kopittke,Asmeret Asefaw Berhe,Yolima Carrillo,Timothy R. Cavagnaro,Deli Chen,Qing-Lin Chen,Mercedes Román Dobarco,Feike A. Dijkstra,Damien J. Field,Mike Grundy,Ji-Zheng He,Frances C. Hoyle,Ingrid Kögel-Knabner,Shu Kee Lam,Petra Marschner,Cristina Maria Eiroa Martinez,Alex B. McBratney,E. McDonald‐Madden,Neal W. Menzies,Luke M. Mosley,Carsten W. Mueller,Daniel Murphy,Uffe N. Nielsen,Anthony G. O'Donnell,Elise Pendall,Jennifer Pett-Ridge,Cornelia Rumpel,Iain M. Young,Budiman Minasny +28 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors examine how land-use change for biomass provision has decreased the ability of soils to regulate the carbon pool and thereby contribute profoundly to climate change, to cycle the nutrients that sustain plant growth and ecosystem health, to protect the soil biodiversity upon which many other functions depend, and to cycle Earth's freshwater supplies.
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Combining land-sparing and land-sharing in European landscapes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review land-sparing and land-sharing measures with a focus on European landscapes and highlight that the best biodiversity outcomes and potentially smallest ecological-economic trade-offs result from landscape management that combines measures like agri-environment schemes and organic farming with small field sizes and high crop diversity to enhance spatial and temporal resource complementarity for associated species.
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Conservation agriculture affects arthropod community composition in a rainfed maize–wheat system in central Mexico
TL;DR: This first report of the effects of CA on arthropods in this long-term trial indicates that CA in central Mexico may contribute to conservation of certain arthropod predators and biological control of insect pests.
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The Effects of Tillage and Straw Incorporation on Soil Organic Carbon Status, Rice Crop Productivity, and Sustainability in the Rice-Wheat Cropping System of Eastern China
Muhammad Sohail Memon,Jun Guo,A. A. Tagar,Nazia Perveen,Changying Ji,Shamim Ara Memon,Noreena Memon +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a two-year field experiment was conducted to investigate the impact of different percentages of straw incorporation and conventional tillage methods on crop yield, soil organic carbon (SOC), total nitrogen (TN), and soil carbon storage (SCS) in rice-wheat cropping systems.
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Soil carbon sequestration impacts on global climate change and food security.
TL;DR: In this article, the carbon sink capacity of the world’s agricultural and degraded soils is 50 to 66% of the historic carbon loss of 42 to 78 gigatons of carbon.
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Stabilization mechanisms of soil organic matter: Implications for C-saturation of soils
TL;DR: The relationship between soil structure and the ability of soil to stabilize soil organic matter (SOM) is a key element in soil C dynamics that has either been overlooked or treated in a cursory fashion when developing SOM models as discussed by the authors.
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Defining and classifying ecosystem services for decision making
TL;DR: The concept of ecosystem services has become an important model for linking the functioning of ecosystems to human welfare Understanding this link is critical for a wide-range of decision-making contexts.
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Ecosystems and human well-being: a framework for assessment
TL;DR: The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) as discussed by the authors is a conceptual framework for analysis and decision-making of ecosystems and human well-being that was developed through interactions among the experts involved in the MA as well as stakeholders who will use its findings.