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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte, Matthew H. Langholtz, Chad M. Hellwinckel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The threat-work: a network of potential threats to soil biodiversity

Soil Organisms
Soils are estimated to contain more than half of the biodiversity on our planet, encompassing a rich spectrum of genes, organisms and functions that play a crucial role in many ecological processes, such as nutrient cycling, organic matter decomposition,
Zoë Lindo, Jeff Battigelli, J. Jacob Parnell, Peter de Ruiter, George G. Brown, Carlos Barreto   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Land use and soil characteristics affect soil organisms differently from above-ground assemblages

BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Background Land-use is a major driver of changes in biodiversity worldwide, but studies have overwhelmingly focused on above-ground taxa: the effects on soil biodiversity are less well known, despite the importance of soil organisms in ecosystem ...
Victoria J. Burton, Sara Contu, Adriana De Palma, Samantha L. L. Hill, Harald Albrecht, James S. Bone, Daniel Carpenter, Ronald Corstanje, Pallieter De Smedt, Mark Farrell, Helen V. Ford, Lawrence N. Hudson, Kelly Inward, David T. Jones, Agnieszka Kosewska, Nancy F. Lo-Man-Hung, Tibor Magura, Christian Mulder, Maka Murvanidze, Tim Newbold, Jo Smith, Andrew V. Suarez, Sasha Suryometaram, Béla Tóthmérész, Marcio Uehara-Prado, Adam J. Vanbergen, Kris Verheyen, Karen Wuyts, Jörn P. W. Scharlemann, Paul Eggleton, Andy Purvis   +30 more
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Soil Biodiversity and the Environment [PDF]

Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2015
Soils represent a significant reservoir of biological diversity that underpins a broad range of key processes and moderate ecosystem service provision. Our understanding of the role that soil organisms play in ecosystems is still developing, but the increased investigation into biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in soils over the past ...
Nielsen, Uffe N. (R17023), Wall, Diana H., Six, Johan   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková, Michiel van Dijk, Robert M'Barek, Hans van Meijl, Tomas Ratinger   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

GLOSOB: The Global Soil Biodiversity Observatory

Soil Organisms
As part of the post-2020 Plan of Action of the International Initiative for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Soil Biodiversity (CBD 2020), adopted at the 2022 Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD
Jacob Parnell, George Brown, Peter deRuiter, Carlos Guerra, Luca Montanarella, Zoë Lindo, Gian Luca Bagnara, Jeff Battigelli, Rosalina González, Rosa M. Poch, Diana H. Wall †, Giulio Malorgio, Ronald Vargas, Rosa Cuevas-Corona, Natalia Rodriguez Eugenio   +14 more
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The ecological clusters of soil organisms drive the ecosystem multifunctionality under long-term fertilization

Environment International, 2022
Long-term fertilization is known to impact the biodiversity and community structures of soil organisms, which are responsible for multiple soil ecosystem functions (multifunctionality).
Yi-Fei Wang, Peng Chen, Feng-Hua Wang, Wan-Xue Han, Min Qiao, Wen-Xu Dong, Chun-Sheng Hu, Dong Zhu, Hai-Yan Chu, Yong-Guan Zhu   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Coping With Production Risk: Effects of Sown Plant Diversity on the Attractiveness of Crop Insurance in Grasslands

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou, Sergei Schaub, Martin Quaas, Robert Finger   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hyalosphenia papilio paynei subsp. nov. – a highly conspicuous and localized Sphagnum peatland testate amoeba

Acta Protozoologica
Most eukaryotic microbial biodiversity is undescribed, and most species might be morphologically indistinguishable.
Clément Duckert, Evelyn Greeves, Quentin Blandenier, Richard J. Payne, Edward A. D. Mitchell   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wine Tourism as a Catalyst for Sustainable Performance: The Mediating Role of Corporate Legitimacy and Green Innovation

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to explore the influence of Wine Tourism (WT) on the Sustainable Performance (SP) of wineries in Spain. It particularly investigates how Corporate Social Legitimacy (CSL) and Green Innovation (GI) may act as intermediary factors in this relationship.
Javier Martínez‐Falcó, Eduardo Sánchez‐García, Bartolomé Marco‐Lajara, Luis A. Millán‐Tudela   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source