Svensk, Mia Pittarello, Marco Mariotte, Pierre Nota, Ginevra Schneider, Manuel K. Frund, David Dubois, Sébastien Allan, Eric Probo, Massimiliano
Published in
Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems
During the last decades, Alnus viridis has expanded over former montane pastures and meadows, due to land use and abandonment. This nitrogen-fixing woody species has triggered negative agro-environmental impacts, such as nitrogen (N) leaching, soil acidification and a reduced biodiversity. The aim of this study was to estimate the N translocation f...
Berendt, Jacqueline Jurasinski, Gerald Wrage-Mönnig, Nicole
Published in
Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems
In recent years, many peatlands in Europe have been rewetted for nature conservation and global warming mitigation. However, the effects on emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O) have been found to be highly variable and driving factors are poorly understood. Therefore, we measured N2O fluxes every two weeks over three years on pairs o...
Ruf, Thorsten Emmerling, Christoph
Published in
Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems
Abstract Cup plant cultivation as feedstock for anaerobic digestion has become an emerging topic in European Agriculture. Although there is a gap in methane yields between cup plant and the benchmark crop silage maize, cup plant as a perennial crop provides several ecological advantages. Amongst others, studies have proven its potential for carbon ...
Holland, J. E. White, P. J. Thauvin, J. -N. Jordan-Meille, L. Haefele, S. M. Thomas, C. L. Goulding, K. W. T. McGrath, S. P.
Published in
Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems
Liming has widespread and significant impacts on soil processes and crop responses. The aim of this study was to describe the relationships between exchangeable cation concentrations in soil and the relative yield of spring barley. The hypothesis was that yield is restricted by the concentration of a single exchangeable cation in the soil. For simp...
Pasley, Heather R. Camberato, James J. Cairns, Jill E. Zaman-Allah, Mainassara Das, Biswanath Vyn, Tony J.
Published in
Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems
Sub-Saharan Africa is facing food security challenges due, in part, to decades of soil nitrogen (N) depletion. Applying N fertilizer could increase crop yields and replenish soil N pools. From 2010 to 2015, field experiments conducted in Embu and Kiboko, Kenya and Harare, Zimbabwe investigated yield and N uptake response of six maize ( Zea mays L.)...
Saiki, Makoto Nguyen, Thi Phuong Mai Shindo, Junko Nishida, Kei
Published in
Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems
Flowing irrigation which drains a large volume of water is one of agricultural techniques for ensuring rice quality. In this study, the nitrogen input and output were characterised in paddy fields under flowing irrigation based on observation in Central Japan, and the estimated nitrogen loadings were compared to the reported values in traditional p...
Pasley, Heather R Cairns, Jill E Camberato, James J Vyn, Tony J
Published in
Nutrient cycling in agroecosystems
Low fertilizer application rates for several decades have depleted soil nutrients in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and contributed to relatively stagnant maize (Zea mays L.) yields. As maize is a staple crop, nutrient depletion has resulted in major food insecurity. While one potential solution is to apply more nitrogen (N) fertilizer, previous studies ...
Henryson, Kajsa Hansson, Per-Anders Kätterer, Thomas Tidåker, Pernilla Sundberg, Cecilia
Published in
Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems
Nitrogen (N) fertilisation has positive and negative effects on the environmental impact of crop cultivation. The mechanisms governing these effects are highly site-dependent, a factor often ignored in assessments of the environmental impact of crop cultivation. By assessing outputs of crop rotations using a life cycle approach, this study explored...
Luo, Shasha Wang, Shaojie Yao, Pengwei Guo, Dan Li, Xiujun Li, Shiqing Tian, Chunjie
Published in
Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems
Film mulching and N fertilization can affect soil physicochemical properties, thereby improving plant growth, and may in turn affect soil microbial communities. Therefore, a 2-year field experiment was conducted to research the effects of film mulching and N fertilization on soil microbial communities. The four main treatments were N0F0, N0F1, N1F0...
Casal, Laurène Durand, Patrick Akkal-Corfini, Nouraya Benhamou, Cyril Laurent, François Salmon-Monviola, Jordy Ferrant, Sylvain Probst, Anne Probst, Jean-Luc Vertès, Françoise
...
Published in
Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems
Optimizing management practices at the plot scale is sometimes not sufficient to reach water framework directive objectives for nitrate pollution. Land management measures involving targeted setting aside of croplands is a promising solution, but its efficiency depends on the local context. We used a distributed agro-hydrological model to compare m...
