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Rural-urban transformation shapes oasis agriculture in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains

Scientific Reports
Traditional agricultural activities and rural livelihoods in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains are rapidly changing. This is triggered by increasing rural-urban interactions and new livelihood opportunities in cities.
Youness Boubou, Kira Fastner, Andreas Buerkert   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rotating Intercrops in Continuous Maize Cultivation: Interaction Between Main Crop, Intercrops, and Weeds

Agronomy
Continuous cropping leads to declines in soil productivity and biodiversity, as well as a deterioration of overall phytosanitary conditions. What if we rotate the intercrops instead of the main crops?
Austėja Švereikaitė, Jovita Balandaitė, Ugnius Ginelevičius, Aušra Sinkevičienė, Rasa Kimbirauskienė, Lina Juodytė, Kęstutis Romaneckas   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Moderate Biochar–Compost Mixture Is More Effective in Improving Biomass, Nutrient Fluxes, and Photosynthetic Outputs for Sustainable Land Restoration and Soil Fertility

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Soil nutrient depletion severely constrains crop productivity in degraded and saline environments. Strategies such as biochar–compost integration could be useful for sustainable agriculture and land restoration on a global scale. This study evaluated the effects of biochar (1% Bc), compost (1% Co), and their blends (0.5% Bc + 0.5% Co and 1% Bc 
Zainul Abideen, Maria Hasnain, Hans Werner Koyro, Brent L. Nielsen, Irfan Aziz, Nadia Sharif, Rabab Fatima Rizvi, Hamada E. Ali   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Long-Term Effect of Tillage Systems on Planosol Physical Properties, CO₂ Emissions and Spring Barley Productivity

Land
As the population grows, more food is needed to keep the food supply chain running smoothly. For many years, intensive farming systems have been used to meet this need.
Aušra Sinkevičienė, Kęstutis Romaneckas, Karolina Jackevičienė, Toma Petrikaitė, Jovita Balandaitė, Rasa Kimbirauskienė   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Terrestrial slugs in neotropical agroecosystems. [PDF]

, 2021
Slugs can be important agricultural pests in tropical regions. They are also intermediate hosts of parasitic nematodes, such as Angiostrongylus costaricensis and A.
RAMOS-RODRIGUEZ, O., GUTIERREZ, I., RAMOS, M., GOMES, S. R., UZEDA, M. C.   +4 more
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Effects of Straw Incorporation and Tillage Depth on Soil Quality in Mollisol Profiles

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although improvements in soil quality under straw incorporation have been well documented, responses across soil profiles under different tillage depths remain unclear. To address this issue, a field experiment was established in 2011 in Mollisols with conventional tillage (20 cm depth) without straw (CT) and with straw (SCT), no tillage with ...
Yu Xu, Jinsong Liang, Mingzhe Sun, Xiaozeng Han, Xinchun Lu, Xianfa Ma, Wenxiu Zou   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimized Fertilization Balances Microbial Carbon and Nitrogen Use Efficiency: Evidence From Microbial Communities

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Optimized fertilization involving reduced mineral N input and organic substitution can alter resource stoichiometry, microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) and nitrogen use efficiency (NUE). However, how fertilization‐induced resource imbalance reshapes microbial community to regulate CUE and NUE remains unclear. We conducted a field experiment
Yazhen Chen, Yichen Xu, Haobo Xu, Juan Chen, Xiaozhou Huang, Wenqiong Jiang, Jinsong He, Xiaohong Wu, Xinxing He, Jun Wang, Xiaocui Liang, Wende Yan   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimizing Soil Organic Matter Estimation Through Multi‐Factor Zoning and Tree‐Based Automated Learning

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Soil organic matter (SOM) is a key indicator of land degradation and soil functioning. It plays an essential role in nutrient cycling, soil structure, and long‐term agroecosystem resilience. The variations of surface cover, soil moisture and soil texture heterogeneity will affect the accuracy of SOM remote sensing mapping. This study developed
Xuzhou Qu, Meiyan Shu, Huiming Song, Xiaohe Gu, Jingping Zhou, Qian Sun, Baoyuan Zhang, Menglei Dai, Chunjiang Zhao   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tree type-specific endophytic bacterial assembly and function in senescing leaves and needles in temperate forests of Central Europe

BMC Plant Biology
Background Leaves and needles are pivotal plant tissues in regulating carbon input, nutrient uptake, and biogeochemical cycling within ecosystems. However, the ecological strategy of broadleaved and coniferous tree species affecting the endophytic ...
Li Ji, Benjawan Tanunchai, Simon Andreas Schroeter, Sara Fareed Mohamed Wahdan, Shakhawat Hossen, Matthias Noll, Witoon Purahong   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nutrient Use Efficiency and Cucumber Productivity as a Function of the Nitrogen Fertilization Rate and the Wood Fiber Content in Growing Media

Plants
A peat substrate is made from peat from drained peatlands, which is a limited resource. A realistic estimate is that 50% of the world’s wetlands have been lost.
Rita Čepulienė, Lina Marija Butkevičienė, Vaida Steponavičienė   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source