Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment

Papers
(The TQCC of Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment is 16. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Combining entomopathogenic Pseudomonas bacteria, nematodes and fungi for biological control of a below-ground insect pest155
Crop rotation and green manure type enhance organic carbon fractions and reduce soil arsenic content148
Experimental insecticide applications change tomato pollinator assemblages and do not increase fruit production121
The value of biotic pollination and dense forest for fruit set of Arabica coffee: A global assessment120
Plastic film-mulched ridges and straw-mulched furrows increase soil carbon sequestration and net ecosystem economic benefit in a wheat-maize rotation111
Quantifying soil organic carbon’s critical role in cereal productivity losses under annualized crop rotations111
Management intensive grazing on New England dairy farms enhances soil nitrogen stocks and elevates soil nitrous oxide emissions without increasing soil carbon101
Increasing N use efficiency while decreasing gaseous N losses in a non-tilled wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) crop using a double inhibitor98
Great and fast increase in soil CH4 uptake after reforestation in karst cropland area is linked to the environmental and microbial factors96
Effects of intercropping on composition and molecular diversity of soil dissolved organic matter in apple orchards: Different roles of bacteria and fungi93
Diversified crop rotation: Synergistically enhancing peanut yield and soil organic carbon stability93
Nitrate losses in subsurface drainage and nitrous oxide emissions from a winter camelina relay cropping system reveal challenges to sustainable intensification91
Increase of soil organic carbon stock by iron slag-based silicate fertilizer application in paddy soils90
Effect of long-term tillage and residue managements on weed flora and its impact on winter wheat development79
Ameliorating C and N balance without loss of productivity by applying mulching measures in rainfed areas78
Do voluntary sustainability standards reduce primary forest loss? A global analysis for food commodities75
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Nitrous oxide emission factors for cattle dung and urine deposited onto tropical pastures: A review of field-based studies68
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Flowering plants in open tomato greenhouses enhance pest suppression in conventional systems and reveal resource saturation for natural enemies in organic systems66
A global synthesis on the rational management practices for enhancing phosphorus use efficiency in agricultural systems64
Management strategies for reducing phosphorus levels in saltwater-intruded agricultural fields62
Biochar-amended poultry mortality composting to increase compost temperatures, reduce ammonia emissions, and decrease leachate’s chemical oxygen demand61
The planting years of vineyards alters the carbon fixation pathways by soil autotrophic microorganism60
Agricultural extensification enhances functional diversity but not phylogenetic diversity in Mediterranean olive groves: A case study with ant and bird communities59
No wild bees? Don't worry! Non-bee flower visitors are still hard at work: The edge effect, landscape, and local characteristics determine taxonomic and functional diversity in apple orchards58
Seasonal and annual methane and nitrous oxide emissions affected by tillage and cover crops in flood-irrigated rice58
Land cover and climate drive shifts in Bombus assemblage composition57
Intercropping in rainfed Mediterranean olive groves contributes to improving soil quality and soil organic carbon storage57
Nitrous oxide emissions dynamics in Indian agricultural landscapes: Revised emission rates and new insights57
Habitat availability and climate warming drive changes in the distribution of grassland grasshoppers57
Soil organic carbon and nitrogen fractions as affected by straw and nitrogen management on the North China Plain57
Pasture age impacts soil fungal composition while bacteria respond to soil chemistry56
Effects of patch-burn grazing and rotational grazing on grassland bird abundance, species richness, and diversity in native grassland pastures of the Midsouth USA55
Using the paddy eco-ditch wetland system to reduce nitrogen non-point source pollution discharge from paddies: A consecutive six-year study in the Yunnan Plateau, China55
Pyric herbivory increases soil microbial diversity but has a site-dependent effect on soil mesofauna in the mid-term54
Impact assessment of soil salinity on crop production in Uzbekistan and its global significance54
Long-term cover crop management effects on soil properties in dryland cropping systems54
Soil microbial composition, diversity, and network stability in intercropping versus monoculture responded differently to drought53
Temperature response of soil respiration decreases with latitude and elevation in abandoned croplands52
Root exudate-mediated plant–microbiome interactions determine plant health during disease infection51
How diverse are sun-grown coffee plantations? Local and landscape heterogeneity drives Andean rove beetle diversity51
Management intensity and landscape configuration affect the potential for woody plant regeneration in coffee agroforestry51
Quantifying N leaching losses as a function of N balance: A path to sustainable food supply chains50
Effect of dissolved organic matter (DOM) on greenhouse gas emissions in rice varieties50
Patterns of denitrifier communities assembly and co-occurrence network regulate N2O emissions in soils with long-term contrasting tillage histories50
Agroforestry with contour planting of grass contributes to terrace formation and conservation of soil and nutrients on sloping land50
Response of soil organic carbon fractions to cover cropping: A meta-analysis of agroecosystems49
Trade-off between carbon sequestration and water loss for vegetation greening in China49
Effects of earthworm (Metaphire guillelmi) density on soil macropore and soil water content in typical Anthrosol soil49
Weed suppression and maize yield influenced by cover crop mixture diversity and tillage48
Identifying the best fertilization practices by many-objective optimization to mitigate nitrous oxide emissions from tea field in the subtropics in Central China48
Management practices and seasonality affect stingless bee colony growth, foraging activity, and pollen diet in coffee agroecosystems47
Apple trees utilize 3–5% of root biomass in the weathered rock layer to absorb 33–34% of their transpiration water consumption47
Forest land-use increases soil organic carbon quality but not its structural or thermal stability in a hedgerow system47
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Mammals in cacao agroforests: Implications of management intensification in two contrasting landscapes47
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Twenty years of nitrous oxide emissions research in Australian agriculture: A review46
Irrigation modulates entomopathogenic nematode community and its soil food web in olive groves under different agricultural managements46
Combining organic fertilisation and perennial crops in the rotation enhances arthropod communities46
N and P addition increase soil respiration but decrease contribution of heterotrophic respiration in semiarid grassland46
Increasing water-use efficiency in rice fields threatens an endangered waterbird46
Rationale for field-specific on-farm precision experimentation45
Soil health assessment in the Yangtze River Delta of China: Method development and application in orchards45
Ungulates alter plant cover without consistent effect on soil ecosystem functioning45
Responses of carbon and microbial community structure to soil nitrogen status vary between maize and potato residue decomposition45
Seasonal effects reveal potential mitigation strategies to reduce N2O emission and N leaching from grassland swards of differing composition (grass monoculture, grass/clover and multispecies)44
Undervine groundcover substantially increases shallow but not deep soil carbon in a temperate vineyard43
Peanut–cotton intercropping to enhance soil ecosystem multifunctionality: Roles of microbial keystone taxa, assembly processes, and C-cycling profiles43
Alfalfa-livestock system promotes the accumulation of soil organic carbon in a semi-arid marginal land43
Moderate sheep grazing increases arthropod biomass and habitat use by steppe birds43
Grazing and applications of nitrogen and phosphorus effects on herbage production and greenhouse gas emissions of pasture in an arid region43
Corrigendum to “A synthesis of the effect of regenerative agriculture on soil carbon sequestration in Southeast Asian croplands” [Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 349 (2023) 108450]42
Viral abundance and lysogenic fraction respond dynamically to cover-crop burn down and vary with conservation soil management practices42
Pastures under dry climate can be cold spots for soil nitrous oxide emissions from grazing cattle excreta42
Erratum to “What makes ditches and ponds more efficient in nitrogen control?” [Agri. Ecosyst. Environ. 314 (2021) 107409]42
Ground cover presence in organic olive orchards affects the interaction of natural enemies against Prays oleae, promoting an effective egg predation42
Ammonia volatilization from urea in alfalfa field with different nitrogen application rates, methods and timing42
The value of two agri-environment scheme habitats for pollinators: Annually cultivated margins for arable plants and floristically enhanced grass margins42
Soil health indicator responses to three years of cover crop and crop rotation in a northern semi-arid region, the Canadian prairies41
Dryland cover crop soil health benefits are maintained with grazing in the U.S. High and Central Plains41
N2O emissions from soils under short-term straw return in a wheat-corn rotation system are associated with changes in the abundance of functional microbes41
Environmental factors and crop management that affect Delia antiqua damage in onion fields41
Spatial arrangement of intercropping impacts natural enemy abundance and aphid predation in an intensive farming system41
Mitigation of ammonia volatilization on farm using an N stabilizer – A demonstration in Quzhou, North China Plain41
Intensification differentially affects the delivery of multiple ecosystem services in subtropical and temperate grasslands41
Microbial effects of prolonged nitrogen fertilization and straw mulching on soil N2O emissions using metagenomic sequencing40
Plastic shed production intensified secondary soil salinization in perennial fruit production systems40
Cover crops and N fertilization affect soil ammonia volatilization and N2O emission by regulating the soil labile carbon and nitrogen fractions40
Cover crop effects on maize drought stress and yield40
Grazing exclusion modulates the effects of different components of plant diversity on biomass production in semiarid rangeland40
Is green manure a viable substitute for inorganic fertilizer to improve grain yields and advance carbon neutrality in paddy agriculture?39
General trends of different inter-row vegetation management affecting vine vigor and grape quality across European vineyards39
Identifying areas where biodiversity is at risk from potential cocoa expansion in the Congo Basin39
Organic amendments increase crop yield while mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from the perspective of carbon fees in a soybean-wheat system39
Impact of plastic mulching and residue return on maize yield and soil organic carbon storage in irrigated dryland areas under climate change39
Fallow replacement cover crops impact soil water and nitrogen dynamics in a semi-arid sub-tropical environment39
A global analysis of agricultural productivity and water resource consumption changes over cropland expansion regions39
Grazing exclusion-induced alterations of soil microbial biogeographic pattern and co-occurrence network across a Tibetan elevation gradient39
Deficit irrigation and organic amendments can reduce dietary arsenic risk from rice: Introducing machine learning-based prediction models from field data38
The location and vegetation physiognomy of ecological infrastructures determine bat activity in Mediterranean floodplain landscapes38
Trees in temperate alley-cropping systems develop deep fine roots 5 years after plantation: What are the consequences on soil resources?38
Direct and indirect effects of agricultural expansion and landscape fragmentation processes on natural habitats38
Highly diverse flower strips promote natural enemies more in annual field crops: A review and meta-analysis37
Climate and geochemistry interactions at different altitudes influence soil organic carbon turnover times in alpine grasslands37
Partitioning eddy covariance CO2 fluxes into ecosystem respiration and gross primary productivity through a new hybrid four sub-deep neural network37
Configurational landscape heterogeneity: Crop-fallow boundaries enhance the taxonomic diversity of carabid beetles and spiders37
Greenhouse gas emissions, nitrogen dynamics and barley productivity as impacted by biosolids applications37
Effects of winter grazing and N addition on soil phosphorus fractions in an alpine grassland on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau36
Patterns and determinants of nitrification and denitrification potentials across 24 rice paddy soils in subtropical China36
Vegetation restoration changed the soil aggregate stability and aggregate carbon stabilization pathway according to δ13C signatures36
Agricultural management intensity determines the strength of weed seed predation36
Legume-based crop diversification with optimal nitrogen fertilization benefits subsequent wheat yield and soil quality36
Ungulate herbivores promote contrasting modifications of soil properties and organic carbon stabilization in a grazed grassland versus rewilded woodland environment36
Effect of cover cropping on soil organic matter characteristics: Insights from a five-year field experiment in Nebraska36
Beneficial ‘inefficiencies’ of western ranching: Flood-irrigated hay production sustains wetland systems by mimicking historic hydrologic processes36
Soil carbon stocks and water stable aggregates under annual and perennial biofuel crops in central Ohio36
Nutrient and sediment retention by riparian vegetated buffer strips: Impacts of buffer length, vegetation type, and season35
Comparative pollinator conservation potential of coffee agroforestry relative to coffee monoculture and tropical rainforest in the DR Congo35
Impact of soil thickness on productivity and nitrate leaching from sloping cropland in the upper Yangtze River Basin35
Perennial woodlands benefit parasitoid diversity, but annual flowering fallows enhance parasitism of wheat aphids in an agricultural landscape35
Pinus radiata as a dendro-remediation species against nitrate leaching in the New Zealand primary industrial areas: Current snapshot and prospects35
Determining the role of land resource, cropping and management practices in soil organic carbon status of rice-based cropping systems34
Soil biological response to multi-species cover crops in the Northern Great Plains34
Effects of landscape structure on abundance and family richness of hymenopteran parasitoids in the olive agroecosystem34
Historical and future dynamics of cropland soil organic carbon stocks in an intensive human-impacted area of southeastern China34
Soil physical properties in a natural highland grassland in southern Brazil subjected to a range of grazing heights34
Different grazers and grazing practices alter the growth, soil properties, and rhizosphere soil bacterial communities of Medicago ruthenica in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau grassland34
Critical role of native forest and savannah habitats in retaining neotropical pollinator diversity in highly mechanized agricultural landscapes34
Growing and non-growing season nitrous oxide emissions from a manured semiarid cropland soil under irrigation34
From small waterbodies to large multi-service providers: Assessing their ecological multifunctionality for terrestrial birds in Mediterranean agroecosystems34
Soil organic C and N dynamics as affected by 31 years cropping systems and fertilization in highland agroecosystems34
Nitrogen and carbon stocks in sandy soil cultivated with corn subjected to 17 years of animal manure and mineral fertilizer application33
Macrocyclic lactone residues in cattle dung result in a sharp decline in the population of dung beetles in the rangelands of northern China33
To what extent is fennel crop dependent on insect pollination?33
Invertebrate diversity is shaped by farm management, edge effects and landscape context in the Prairie Pothole Region of Canada32
Integrating poultry improves soil health and vegetable yield in organic, cover-cropped system32
Effects of land-use conversion from Masson pine forests to tea plantations on net ecosystem carbon and greenhouse gas budgets32
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Agricultural cultivation duration affects soil inorganic N turnover and supply capacity: Evidence in subtropical karst regions32
Can earthworms and root traits improve plant struvite-P uptake? A field mesocosm study32
Rice intercropping with water mimosa (Neptunia oleracea Lour.) can facilitate soil N utilization and alleviate apparent N loss32
Contrasting water quality in response to long-term nitrogen fertilization in rainfed and irrigated apple-producing regions on China’s Loess Plateau32
The response of grassland productivity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition in northern China32
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Land-use changes alter the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community composition and assembly in the ancient tea forest reserve32
Environmental and biotic filters interact to shape the coexistence of native and introduced bees in northern Patagonian forests32
Pollination services to squash insufficient despite abundant specialist bees31
In-situ retention of vegetable residues combined with calcium cyanamide or microbial consortium enhances overall soil quality and cucumber productivity in a long-term monoculture system31
Fungicide treatments drive changes in the diversity and species richness of tissue-resident bacteria in agrobiont cobweb-weaving and epigeic spiders31
Treed field borders net-export over 82,000 more hoverflies per km every week into canola crops than herbaceous field borders, regardless of mass-flowering crop bloom31
Insect excluding mesh enhances Spotted-wing Drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) control in tunneled raspberry with limited effects on natural enemy abundance31
Managed and wild bees contribute to alfalfa (Medicago sativa) pollination31
Replacing urea-N with Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus L.) mitigates CH4 and N2O emissions in rice paddy30
Response of soil fungal species, phylogenetic and functional diversity to diurnal asymmetric warming in an alpine agricultural ecosystem30
Diversification of an integrated crop-livestock system: Agroecological and food production assessment at farm scale30
Dominance of honey bees is negatively associated with wild bee diversity in commercial apple orchards regardless of management practices30
Conversion of degraded farmlands to orchards decreases groundwater recharge rates and nitrate gains in the thick loess deposits30
Optimal nitrogen management increased topsoil organic carbon stock and maintained whole soil inorganic carbon stock to increase soil carbon stock—A 15-year field evidence30
Assessment of greenhouse gases emissions, global warming potential and net ecosystem economic benefits from wheat field with reduced irrigation and nitrogen management in an arid region of China30
Biochar and vermicompost improve the soil properties and the yield and quality of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) grown in plastic shed soil continuously cropped for different years30
Enhancing the ecological services of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau’s grasslands through sustainable restoration and management in era of global change30
Rates of soil organic carbon change in cultivated and afforested sandy soils30
The enhancing effect of intercropping sugar beet with chicory on the deep root growth and nutrient uptake30
Rodent fertility in commercial orchards in relation to body mass and body condition30
Identification of a resource-efficient integrated crop management practice for the rice-wheat rotations in south Asian Indo-Gangetic Plains30
Rubber leaf fall phenomenon linked to increased temperature30
Phosphorus leaching in high-P soils under maize silage and interseeding cover crop system30
Combining reduced tillage and green manures minimized N2O emissions from organic cropping systems in a cool humid climate29
Pollination increases white and narrow-leaved lupin protein yields but not all crop visitors contribute to pollination29
Ecosystem-scale crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) gas exchange of a sisal (Agave sisalana) plantation29
Soil methane uptake is tightly linked to carbon dioxide emission in global upland ecosystems29
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Long-term effects of biochar on trace metals accumulation in rice grain: A 7-year field experiment29
Exploring the influence of cover crops with native plant species on soil and berry microbiota in a Moscatel Galego vineyard: Implications for sustainable viticulture29
Interactive effects of warming and managements on carbon fluxes in grasslands: A global meta-analysis29
Vegetation cover and food availability shapes the foraging activity of rodent pests in and around maize fields29
Role of floral strips and semi-natural habitats as enhancers of wild bee functional diversity in intensive agricultural landscapes29
Enhanced mitigation of N2O and NO emissions through co-application of biochar with nitrapyrin in an intensive tropical vegetable field28
The efficacy of reductive soil disinfestations on disease control is highly dependent on the microbiomes they reconstructed28
Grazing legacy mediates the diverse responses of grassland multidimensional stability to resource enrichment28
A synthesis of the effect of regenerative agriculture on soil carbon sequestration in Southeast Asian croplands28
The global effects of grazing on grassland soil nitrogen retention28
Transformation of the agricultural landscape and its influence on small terrestrial mammal communities in South Moravia (Czech Republic, Central Europe)28
What follows fallow? Assessing revegetation patterns on abandoned sugarcane land in Hawaiʻi28
Evaluating conservation tools in intensively-used farmland: Higher bird and mammal diversity in seed-rich strips during winter28
Large-scale fence modifications increase nest survival in sage-grouse28
Solutes in runoff under simulated rainfall on fertilised sugarcane (Saccharum sp.) beds: Measurements and results28
Intensive agriculture influences functional diversity, redundancy and trait profile of bee community and interacting plant community in a tropical agricultural landscape28
High losses of farmland birds and potential biocontrol along an urbanization gradient in a tropical megacity28
Organic manure rather than phosphorus fertilization primarily determined asymbiotic nitrogen fixation rate and the stability of diazotrophic community in an upland red soil27
Classification of agricultural land management systems for global modeling of biodiversity and ecosystem services27
Fallow fields and hedgerows mediate enhanced arthropod predation and reduced herbivory on small scale intercropped maize farms – δ13C and δ15N stable isotope evidence27
Wild bee responses to cropland landscape complexity are temporally-variable and taxon-specific: Evidence from a highly replicated pseudo-experiment27
The impact of climate and potassium nutrition on crop yields: Insights from a 30-year Swiss long-term fertilization experiment27
Cover crop-mediated soil carbon storage and soil health in semi-arid irrigated cropping systems27
Effect of landscape composition on the invasive pest Halyomorpha halys in fruit orchards27
Diverse agricultural landscapes increase bat activity and diversity: Implications for biological pest control27
Re-established grasslands on farmland promote pollinators more than predators27
Wild bees benefit from low urbanization levels and suffer from pesticides in a tropical megacity27
Balanced phosphorus fertilization enhances soil bacterial network complexity to maintain multifunctionality and plant production in dryland agricultural systems27
Spatial dynamic and spillover of the polyphagous pest Bemisia tabaci is influenced by differences in farmland habitats on tropical organic farms27
Landscape-wide floral resource deficit enhances the importance of diverse wildflower plantings for pollinators in farmlands27
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Effects of the combined application of livestock manure and plant residues on soil organic carbon sequestration in the southern Loess Plateau of China26
Rice–fish coculture system enhances paddy soil fertility, bacterial network stability and keystone taxa diversity26
Impact of land use type and organic farming on the abundance, diversity, community composition and functional properties of soil nematode communities in vegetable farming26
Effect of fertilizer management on the soil bacterial community in agroecosystems across the globe26
Response of N2O emissions to N fertilizer reduction combined with biochar application in a rain-fed winter wheat ecosystem26
Are field crops refuge for woody invaders? Rainfall, crop type and management shaped tree invasion in croplands26
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Nesting material, phenology and landscape complexity influence nesting success and parasite infestation of a trap nesting bee26
Prospects for improving productivity and composition of mixed swards in semi-arid environments by separating species in drill rows – A review26
Grazing alters vegetation phenology by regulating regional environmental factors on the Tibetan Plateau26
The Mesoamerican milpa agroecosystem fosters greater arthropod diversity compared to monocultures26
Enhancing soil multifunctionality through restoring erosion environment and microbial functions combined with organic manure and straw mulching26
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The effects of crop residues and air temperature on variations in interannual ecosystem respiration in a wheat-maize crop rotation in China26
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Pesticide use in vineyards is affected by semi-natural habitats and organic farming share in the landscape26
Nitrogen and phosphorus supply controls stability of soil organic carbon in alpine meadow of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau26
Promoting enhanced ecosystem services from cover crops using intra- and interspecific diversity26
Global effects of livestock grazing on ecosystem functions vary with grazing management and environment26
Reduced plant water use can explain higher soil moisture in organic compared to conventional farming systems26
Orchards closer to forest patches produced fewer malformed fruits and more commercial fruits: The importance of legitimate floral visitors26
Effects of a tree row on greenhouse gas fluxes, growing conditions and soil microbial communities on an oat field in Southern Finland26
Long-term manuring enhances soil gross nitrogen mineralization and ammonium immobilization in subtropical area26
Intensive citrus plantations suppress the microbial profiles of the β-glucosidase gene26
The implementation of irrigation leads to declines in farmland birds25
Exclusion of ground-nesting ants promotes biological control, but facilitates the establishment of an exotic canopy-nesting ant species25
Rice-crayfish farming increases soil organic carbon sequestration by promoting aggregate protection and microbial necromass accumulation25
Participation of urea-N absorbed on biochar granules among soil and tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacumL.) and its potential environmental impact25
Optimization of irrigation and N fertilization management profoundly increases soil N retention potential in a greenhouse tomato production agroecosystem of Northeast China25
Protective nets reduce pollen flow in blueberry orchards25
Corrigendum to: “Developing climate-smart agricultural systems in the North China Plain” [Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 291 (2020) 10679]25
Ecosystem services in mountain pastures: A complex network of site conditions, climate and management25
Landscape composition mediates suppression of major pests by natural enemies in conventional cruciferous vegetables24
Assessing irrigated water utilization to optimize irrigation schedule in the oasis-desert ecotone of Hexi Corridor of China24
Assessing carbon greenhouse gas emissions from aquaculture in China based on aquaculture system types, species, environmental conditions and management practices24
Benefits of wildflower areas as overwintering habitats for ground-dwelling arthropods depend on landscape structural complexity24
Organic farming is more related to topography than to soil characteristics in extensively and intensively managed grasslands in Switzerland24
Effects of crop type and production method on arable biodiversity in boreal farmland24
Partitioning and controlling factors of evapotranspiration: 2. Dynamics and controls of ratio of transpiration to evapotranspiration at multiple timescales in agroforestry system24
Plastic film mulching regime altered fungal, but not bacterial community structure at the regional scale24
Are rice fields less diverse and more invaded by non-native species than less impacted habitats? A test with wetland microcrustaceans24
Cover crops enhance resource availability for soil microorganisms in a pecan orchard24
Nocturnal pollination is equally important as, and complementary to, diurnal pollination for strawberry fruit production24
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