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Plant and soil characteristics as key predictors for future agricultural drought

Environmental Research Letters
Drought is one of the most complex and multidimensional types of extreme events, with meteorological and agricultural droughts being two of the most widely studied types.
A Kumar Samantaray, N J Steinert, P A Mooney   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sharing the light, impact of solar parks on plant productivity, soil microbes and soil organic matter

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Solar parks enable renewable energy production at a large scale, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, the effects of this change in land use on vegetation and soil health are still largely unknown. In this study, we determined the impacts of solar parks on vegetation, soil biota and soil carbon between and below solar panels.
Luuk Scholten, Ron G. M. de Goede, Anna Edlinger, Bas B. Van Aken, Gerlinde B. De Deyn   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hurdles to overcome to achieve biostimulant‐driven, low chemical input crop production

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Crop production requires considerable chemical inputs that result in significant greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental costs. Biostimulants are natural agents, such as microorganisms or seaweed, applied to plants and soil to stimulate plant growth and reduce chemical inputs. Biostimulant use is rapidly increasing globally, but hurdles remain,
Wolfram Buss, Katharina Belt, Zaw Hein, Arumdriya Putri, Shuoyang Zhu, Hana Suwandari, Alison R. Bentley   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Ethiopian farmers' vulnerability to climate change across regional states: [PDF]

"This study analyzes the vulnerability of Ethiopian farmers to climate change based on the integrated vulnerability assessment approach using vulnerability indicators.
Deressa, Temesgen, Hassan, Rashid M., Ringler, Claudia   +2 more
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Leveraging machine learning and citizen science data to describe flowering phenology across South Africa

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Recent shifts in flowering times are an index of, and a response to, human driven climate change. However, most information on these flowering changes is heavily skewed to the northern hemisphere. This imbalance limits our understanding of how climate change is affecting ecosystems, including the mismatches of flowering times between species, increased
Ross D. Stewart, Nicholas W. Bard, Michelle van der Bank, T. Jonathan Davies   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Azole antifungal contaminants disrupt mycorrhizal function and risk agricultural sustainability

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Global food production is increasingly threatened by soil degradation, climate change and the rising costs of synthetic fertilisers. Circular agriculture, which promotes resource reuse, is a promising solution, but using treated wastewater and biosolids in farming introduces risks from emerging contaminants like pharmaceutical residues.
Emily K. Durant, Katie J. Field, J. Brett Sallach, Sara Moeskjær, Alex Williams, Laura J. Carter   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Description of future drought indices in Virginia. [PDF]

Data Brief, 2017
Kang H, Sridhar V.
europepmc   +1 more source

Detecting and attributing climate change effects on vegetation: Australia as a test case

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Climate change is contributing to vegetation changes that threaten life support systems. Yet, inherent climatic variability and past and present human actions—such as clearing, burning and grazing regimes—also alter vegetation and complicate understanding of vegetation change. Australian ecosystems exemplify such complexity.
Laura J. Williams, Rachael V. Gallagher, Sami W. Rifai, Matthew A. Adeleye, Patrick J. Baker, David M. J. S. Bowman, Jake Eckersley, Jacqueline R. England, Michael‐Shawn Fletcher, Pauline F. Grierson, Assaf Inbar, Jürgen Knauer, Clare M. Stephens, Raphaël Trouvé, Belinda E. Medlyn   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plasticity in plant hydraulic traits: An evaluation of a common‐taxa experiment across a climatic gradient in the Western U.S.

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Due to climate change, plants are experiencing both prolonged drought events and increasingly variable water availability, prompting the need for better understanding of potential impacts on plant performance, as well as the identification of low‐water‐use plants.
Amelia Keyser‐Gibson, Lloyd Nackley, Youping Sun, Jared Sisneroz, Darren Haver, Ryan Contreras, Ursula K. Schuch, Lorence Oki, Soo‐Hyung Kim   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Observed drought indices show increasing divergence across Europe. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2017
Stagge JH, Kingston DG, Tallaksen LM, Hannah DM.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source