Cui, Zhengjun Yan, Bin Gao, Yuhong Wu, Bing Wang, Yifan Xie, Yaping Xu, Peng Wang, Haidi Wen, Ming Wang, Yingze
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Frontiers in Plant Science
Crop production and water productivity may be impacted by diverse crop rotation and management practices. A field study was conducted from 2017-2020 in the Loess Plateau to evaluate the effects of crop rotation sequences on pre-planting and post-harvest soil water storage (SWS), annualized crop yield, water use, and water productivity. Crops in rot...
Lapierre, Jared Machado, Pedro Vitor Ferrari Debruyn, Zachary Brown, Shannon E. Jordan, Sean Berg, Aaron Biswas, Asim Henry, Hugh A. L. Wagner-Riddle, Claudia
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Frontiers in Environmental Science
Leaching of nitrate (NO3 −)—a reactive nitrogen form with impacts on ecosystem health—increases during the non-growing season (NGS) of agricultural soils under cold climates. Cover crops are effective at reducing NGS NO3 − leaching, but this benefit may be altered with less snow cover inducing more soil freezing under warmer winters. Our objective ...
Haarhoff, Stephanus J. Swanepoel, Pieter A.
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Frontiers in Plant Science
Increased tolerance to competition for soil resources of modern maize (Zea mays L.) hybrids increases soil resource use efficiency and yield. Yet little information is available on the relationship between maize population density and yield under no-tillage in semi-arid environments. A 2-year field trial was conducted in South Africa during the 201...
Pečan, Urša Kastelec, Damijana Pintar, Marina
Correct soil water content measurement is important for various environmental and agricultural applications. The aim of thisstudy was to evaluate the performance of two commercially available dielectric sensors, the SM150T (Delta-T Devices) and TRIME-Pico 32(IMKO). We evaluated the manufacturer’s calibration functions and the two-point calibration ...
Wang, Mengyu Lu, Nan An, Nannan Fu, Bojie
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Frontiers in Environmental Science
The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) is crucial for understanding the processes of ecological restoration in semi-arid regions. However, partitioning the relative influence of various biodiversity attributes, namely taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity, on EMF during secondary succession is still...
DeVincentis, Alyssa Solis, Samuel Sandoval Rice, Sloane Zaccaria, Daniele Snyder, Richard L Maskey, Mahesh L Gomes, Anna Gaudin, Amélie Mitchell, Jeffrey P
As fresh water supplies become more unreliable, variable and expensive, the water-related implications of sustainable agriculture practices such as cover cropping are drawing increasing attention from California's agricultural communities. However, the adoption of winter cover cropping remains limited among specialty crop growers who face uncertain...
Gessler, Arthur Bächli, Lukas Rouholahnejad Freund, Elham Treydte, Kerstin Schaub, Marcus Haeni, Matthias Weiler, Markus Seeger, Stefan Marshall, John Hug, Christian
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The New phytologist
The intensity and frequency of droughts events are projected to increase in future with expected adverse effects for forests. Thus, information on the dynamics of tree water uptake from different soil layers during and after drought is crucial. We applied an in situ water isotopologue monitoring system to determine the oxygen isotope composition in...
Gies, T.J.A. Bos, A.P.
Deze brochure zoomt in op maatregelen die de veehouders willen nemen. Het is hun aanbod aan de samenleving, dat als basis kan dienen om gezamenlijk afspraken te maken voor het gebied. De voorgenomen maatregelen zijn het resultaat van een driedaags ontwerpatelier waaraan 15 melkveehouders, het agrarisch Collectief Alblasserwaard/Vijfheerenlanden en ...
program rice, on cgiar research
The Smart-Valleys approach has been successfully piloted in Cote d’Ivoire. Overall, the Smart-Valleys approach increased soil moisture by 53% and reduced weed biomass by 20%. Rice yield was increased by 37% and the yield gap was reduced by 23% compared to the non-developed site.
Vodnik, Katarina
Z dobro pripravljenim načrtom vzorčenja smo pridobili dodatne informacije o heterogenosti volumske gostote tal na oranih tleh. Izbrali smo osem njiv na območju Celja, kjer je od zadnje obdelave pretekel najmanj en mesec. Talni tip je psevdoglej, na eni njivi delno hipoglej. Vse vzorce tal v posameznem letu smo odvzeli isti dan, pri čemer smo predpo...
