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The magnitude of these effects depends on presence of crop residue, earthworm density and type and rate of fertilization. The positive effects of earthworms become larger when more residue is returned to the soil, but disappear when soil nitrogen availability is high. This suggests that earthworms stimulate plant growth predominantly through releasing nitrogen locked away in residue and soil organic matter. Our results therefore imply that earthworms are of crucial importance to decrease the yield gap of farmers who can't -or won't- use nitrogen fertilizer.", "keywords": ["Crops", " Agricultural", "agroecosystems", "Nitrogen", "growth", "n pools", "01 natural sciences", "nitrogen", "Article", "Animals", "Biomass", "soil carbon", "Oligochaeta", "Ecosystem", "agriculture", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "tolerance", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Carbon", "communities", "13. Climate action", "8. 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However, few studies have comprehensively evaluated the effects of long-term straw incorporation. An ongoing long-term straw incorporation experiment in a rice\u2013wheat cropping system in China was established in 1990 and was used in the present study to evaluate the net global warming potential (NGWP) and the net economic benefit (NEB) of the straw return. The following four field treatments were included: a control (CK); N, P and K fertilization (NPK); fertilization plus a moderate rate of straw application (NPKS1); and fertilization plus a high rate of straw application (NPKS2). We calculated the increase in the soil organic carbon (SOC) and the straw-induced emissions of CH4 and N2O, which were expressed as the global warming potential (GWP) in units of CO2-equivalent (CO2-eq) at the 100-year scale. The straw-induced NEB was defined as the difference between the economic income, which was calculated by multiplying the increase in straw-induced crop grain yield by the grain price, and the economic loss was computed by multiplying the increase in straw-induced CO2-eq emissions by the carbon price. The results showed that long-term straw incorporation significantly increased the CH4 emissions and the topsoil SOC density. The GWP of the straw-induced CH4 emissions was 3.21\u20133.92 times that of the straw-induced SOC sequestration rate, suggesting that long-term direct straw incorporation in the rice\u2013wheat systems worsens rather than mitigates the climate change. Additionally, continuous straw incorporation slightly enhanced the rice and wheat grain yields, contributing to the production of the NEB. We determined that under the current carbon price, ranging from 2.55 to 31.71 EUR per ton CO2-eq, the direct straw incorporation will produce a positive NEB, ranging from 156 to 658 RMB\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0year\u22121, if the grain yield prices do not fluctuate, which does not provide a significant incentive for farmers to change from their traditional direct straw incorporation pattern. Considering the other benefits that the straw application produced, such as improving soil fertility and the water retention capacity, we recommend that the government should establish an incentive for ecological compensation to encourage farmers to implement proper straw incorporation, such as composting straw under aerobic conditions before application.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "8. Economic growth", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "12. 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We determined the historical change in soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks from long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term field trials that represent major soil types and climatic conditions of northern China. Soil carbon and general circulation models were validated using these field trial data sets. We then applied these models to predict future change in SOC stocks to 2100 using two net primary production (NPP) scenarios (i.e., current NPP or 1% year\uffe2\uff88\uff921NPP increase). The conversion rate of plant residues to SOC was higher in single\uffe2\uff80\uff90cropping sites than in double\uffe2\uff80\uff90cropping sites. The prediction of future SOC sequestration potential indicated that these soils will be a net source of carbon dioxide (CO2) under no fertilizer inputs. Even when inorganic nutrients were applied, the additional carbon input from increased plant residues could not meet the depletion of SOC in parts of northern China. Manure or straw application could however improve the SOC sequestration potential at all sites. The SOC sequestration potential in northern China was estimated to be \uffe2\uff88\uff924.3 to 18.2 t C ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921by 2100. The effect of projected climate change on the annual rate of SOC change did not differ significantly between climate scenarios. The average annual rate of SOC change under current and increased NPP scenarios (at 850 ppm CO2) was approximately 0.136 t C ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921in northern China. These findings highlight the need to maintain, and where possible increase, organic carbon inputs into these farming systems which are rapidly becoming inorganic fertilizer intensive.

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Recent studies found that the largest uncertainties in the response of the terrestrial carbon cycle to climate change might come from changes in soil moisture under the elevation of temperature. Warming\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced change in soil moisture and its level of influence on terrestrial ecosystems are mostly determined by climate, soil, and vegetation type and their sensitivity to temperature and moisture. Here, we present the results from a warming experiment of an alpine ecosystem conducted in the permafrost region of the Qinghai\uffe2\uff80\uff93Tibet Plateau using infrared heaters. Our results show that 3\uffc2\uffa0years of warming treatments significantly elevated soil temperature at 0\uffe2\uff80\uff93100\uffc2\uffa0cm depth, decreased soil moisture at 10\uffc2\uffa0cm depth, and increased soil moisture at 40\uffe2\uff80\uff93100\uffc2\uffa0cm depth. In contrast to the findings of previous research, experimental warming did not significantly affect NH4+\uffe2\uff80\uff90N, NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92\uffe2\uff80\uff90N, and heterotrophic respiration, but stimulated the growth of plants and significantly increased root biomass at 30\uffe2\uff80\uff9350\uffc2\uffa0cm depth. This led to increased soil organic carbon, total nitrogen, and liable carbon at 30\uffe2\uff80\uff9350\uffc2\uffa0cm depth, and increased autotrophic respiration of plants. Analysis shows that experimental warming influenced deeper root production via redistributed soil moisture, which favors the accumulation of belowground carbon, but did not significantly affected the decomposition of soil organic carbon. Our findings suggest that future climate change studies need to take greater consideration of changes in the hydrological cycle and the local ecosystem characteristics. The results of our study will aid in understanding the response of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change and provide the regional case for global ecosystem models.

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Wheat residue incorporation into the rice paddy field is becoming a popular practice in rice production in China's main rice\uffe2\uff80\uff90growing area but risks an increased emission of greenhouse gases. This study investigated if an alternate wetting and moderate drying (AWMD) irrigation regime in rice production reduces CH4 emission and increases grain yield when wheat straw residues are incorporated into rice paddy field. One super rice variety was field\uffe2\uff80\uff90grown in 2012 and 2013 and subjected to four irrigation and straw incorporation treatments: continuously flooded (CF) without straw incorporation (\uffe2\uff88\uff92S), AWMD without straw incorporation (AWMD\uffe2\uff88\uff92S), then CF with straw incorporation (CF\uffc2\uffa0+\uffc2\uffa0S) and AWMD\uffc2\uffa0+\uffc2\uffa0S. When compared with the CF, the AWMD regime increased grain yield and water use efficiency (WUE, grain yield over the amount of water used) by 2.7% and 27.6%, respectively, under \uffe2\uff88\uff92S, and by 18.0 and 50.0%, respectively under +S. The AWMD\uffc2\uffa0+\uffc2\uffa0S treatment also significantly increased nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) compared with the CF\uffc2\uffa0+\uffc2\uffa0S treatment. The increase in grain yield, WUE and NUE in the AWMD regime, especially under +S, were attributed mainly to a greater root oxidation activity, deeper root distribution and increases in productive tillers, crop growth rate and nonstructural carbohydrate remobilization during grain filling. There was a total of 0.49\uffc2\uffa0kg N2O\uffe2\uff80\uff90N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffc2\uffa0more loss in the AWMD than in the CF regime. However, the AWMD regime substantially decreased seasonal CH4 emissions, global warming potential (GWP, including both CH4 and N2O) and greenhouse gas intensity (grain yield over GWP) by 49.8%, 45.2% and 46.7%, respectively, under \uffe2\uff88\uff92S, and by 57.5, 55.9% and 62.6%, respectively, under +S, when compared with the CF regime. The results demonstrate that the AWMD is an effective practice to increase grain yield and resource\uffe2\uff80\uff90use efficiency and reduce environmental risks especially, when wheat straw is incorporated into paddy field.

", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "8. Economic growth", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.66"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Food%20and%20Energy%20Security", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1002/fes3.66", "name": "item", "description": "10.1002/fes3.66", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1002/fes3.66"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-08-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1002/jsfa.7207", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-23T16:14:06Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-04-10", "title": "Mineralization dynamics in soil fertilized with seaweed-fish waste compost", "description": "Seaweed and fish waste can be composted together to obtain fertilizer with high organic matter and nutrient contents. The nutrients, however, are mostly in organic form and must be mineralized to make them available to plants. The objective of this work was to establish a usage guideline for the compost by studying its mineralization dynamics. Also, the release of inorganic N and C from soil fertilized with the compost was monitored and modelled.C and N were released throughout the assay, to an extent significantly dependent on fertilizer rate. Mineralization of both elements fitted a first-order exponential model, and each fertilizer rate required using a specific fitting model. An increased rate favoured mineralization (especially of carbon). After 90 days, 2.3% of C and 7.7% of N were mineralized (and 23.3% of total nitrogen made plant available) with the higher rate.C mineralization was slow because organic matter in the compost was very stable. On the other hand, the relatively high initial content in mineral N of the compost increased gradually by the effect of mineralization. The amount of N available would suffice to meet the requirements of moderately demanding crops at the lower fertilizer rate, and even those of more demanding crops at the higher rate.", "keywords": ["Crops", " Agricultural", "2. Zero hunger", "Minerals", "Nitrogen", "0402 animal and dairy science", "Fishes", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Seaweed", "Carbon", "Refuse Disposal", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "8. Economic growth", "Animals", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "0405 other agricultural sciences", "Fertilizers"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/jsfa.7207/fullpdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.7207"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20the%20Science%20of%20Food%20and%20Agriculture", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1002/jsfa.7207", "name": "item", "description": "10.1002/jsfa.7207", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1002/jsfa.7207"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-05-22T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1002/ldr.720", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-23T16:14:08Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2006-03-22", "title": "Extinction Or Adaptation? Three Decades Of Change In Shifting Cultivation In Sarawak, Malaysia", "description": "Abstract

Shifting cultivation is commonly believed to be disappearing in Southeast Asia, but appears relatively persistent in some areas with alternative economic opportunities. This paper analyses how three decades of development have influenced both the decline and persistence of shifting cultivation in Sarawak, Malaysia. Changes in land use and demography are analysed in two Iban shifting cultivation communities, which differ in access to markets, off\uffe2\uff80\uff90farm work, and in their proximity to large\uffe2\uff80\uff90scale land development. Although the Sarawak State Government's policies to limit shifting cultivation have not proven effective, introduction of compulsory school attendance, investment in infrastructure and associated access to markets and employment opportunities have gradually changed local livelihoods, now composed of subsistence and commercial farming, land development and connections to local and international labour markets. Shifting cultivation of hill rice has persisted in both communities despite other economic opportunities and has been maintained for a range of reasons. However, increasing permanent migration of younger people and pressure on land from land development may gradually end shifting cultivation, particularly in more developed areas. Copyright \uffc2\uffa9 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "8. Economic growth", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.720"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Land%20Degradation%20%26amp%3B%20Development", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1002/ldr.720", "name": "item", "description": "10.1002/ldr.720", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1002/ldr.720"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2006-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1002/npr.20015", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-23T16:14:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2004-05-14", "title": "Equality and diversity", "description": "Abstract

Journalist David Batstone here explores workplace balance, diversity, and equality\uffe2\uff80\uff94one of his principles for deciding whether an organization is as credible, trustworthy, and soluble as it seems. He profiles five companies and their successful approaches for building a balanced workforce, nurturing a tolerant culture, and reaching out to underrepresented groups in their customer and supplier bases. \uffc2\uffa9 2003 David BatstoneThe construction of ecological security pattern is one of the important ways to alleviate the contradiction between economic development and ecological protection, as well as the important contents of ecological civilization construction. How to scientifically construct the ecological security pattern of small-scale counties, and achieve sustainable economic development based on ecological environment protection, it has become an important proposition in regulating the ecological process effectively. Taking Fengxian County of China as an example, this paper selected the importance of ecosystem service functions and ecological sensitivity to evaluate the ecological importance and identify ecological sources. Furthermore, we constructed the ecological resistance surface by various landscape assignments and nighttime lighting modifications. Through a minimum cumulative resistance model, we obtained ecological corridors and finally constructed the ecological security pattern comprehensively combining with ecological resistance surface construction. Accordingly, we further clarified the specific control measures for ecological security barriers and regional functional zoning. This case study shows that the ecological security pattern is composed of ecological sources and corridors, where the former plays an important security role, and the latter ensures the continuity of ecological functions. In terms of the spatial layout, the ecological security barriers built based on ecological security pattern and regional zoning functions are away from the urban core development area. As for the spatial distribution, ecological sources of Fengxian County are mainly located in the central and southwestern areas, which is highly coincident with the main rivers and underground drinking water source area. Moreover, key corridors and main corridors with length of approximately 115.71\uffc2\uffa0km and 26.22\uffc2\uffa0km, respectively, formed ecological corridors of Fengxian County. They are concentrated in the western and southwestern regions of the county which is far away from the built-up areas with strong human disturbance. The results will provide scientific evidence for important ecological land protection and ecological space control at a small scale in underdeveloped and plain counties. In addition, it will enrich the theoretical framework and methodological system of ecological security pattern construction. To some extent, it also makes a reference for improving the regional ecological environment carrying capacities and optimizing the ecological spatial structure in such kinds of underdeveloped small-scale counties.This paper investigated occupational gender segregation and its vertical and horizontal dimensions in Turkey. In order to explore the extent of inequality entailed in occupational gender segregation (measured by the vertical dimension), average pay levels across occupations were used. In addition to the economic inequalities captured by pay, aiming to explore the social inequalities inherent in occupational segregation, Cambridge Social Interaction and Stratification Scale scores across occupations were used. The results showed that the extent of inequality associated with occupational gender segregation was substantial, operating to the detriment of women. Women were more likely to be employed in lower-paid jobs and in occupations that ranked lower across the overall stratification structure, while men remained at an advantaged position in terms of both the pay levels and the positions of the occupations they held in the social hierarchy.The objective of the present study was to better understand the potential environmental benefit of using vine shoots (ViShs), an agricultural residue, as filler in composite materials. For that purpose, a comparative life cycle assessment (LCA) of a rigid tray made of virgin poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) PHBV, polylactic acid (PLA) or polypropylene (PP), and increasing content of ViSh particles was performed. The contribution of each processing step in the life cycle on the different environmental impacts was identified and discussed. Furthermore, the balance between the environmental and the economic benefits of composite trays was discussed.

Methods

This work presents a cradle-to-grave LCA of composite rigid trays. Once collected in vineyards, ViShs were dried and ground using dry fractionation processes, then mixed with a polymer matrix by melt extrusion to produce compounds that were finally injected to obtain rigid trays for food packaging. The density of each component was taken into account in order to compare trays with the same volume. The maximum filler content was set to 30 vol% according to recommendations from literature and industrial data. The ReCiPe 2016 Midpoint Hierarchist (H) methodology was used for the assessment using the cutoff system model.

Results and discussion

This study showed that bioplastics are currently less eco-friendly than PP. This is in part due to the fact that LCA does not account for, in existing tools, effects of microplastic accumulation and that bioplastic technologies are still under development with low tonnage. This study also demonstrated the environmental interest of the development of biocomposites by the incorporation of ViSh particles. The minimal filler content of interest depended on the matrices and the impact categories. Concerning global warming, composite trays had less impact than virgin plastic trays from 5 vol% for PHBV or PLA and from 20 vol% for PP. Concerning PHBV, the only biodegradable polymer in natural conditions in this study, the price and the impact on global warming are reduced by 25% and 20% respectively when 30 vol% of ViSh are added.

Conclusion

The benefit of using vine shoots in composite materials from an environmental and economical point of view was demonstrated. As a recommendation, the polymer production step, which constitutes the most important impact, should be optimized and the maximum filler content in composite materials should be increased.

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Here we assessed the response of soil respiration, an important component of forest carbon budgets, to nutrient enrichment over a wide range of mangrove forests. We assessed the response of soil respiration to nutrient enrichment using fertilization experiments within 22 mangrove forests over ten sites. We used boosted regression tree (BRT) models to determine the importance of environmental and plant factors for soil respiration and its responsiveness to fertilizer treatments. Leaf area index explained the largest proportion of variation in soil respiration rates (LAI, 45.9\u00a0%) followed by those of site, which had a relative influence of 39.9\u00a0% in the BRT model. Nutrient enrichment enhanced soil respiration only in nine out of 22 forests. Soil respiration in scrub forests showed a positive response to nutrient addition more frequently than taller fringing forests. The response of soil respiration to nutrient enrichment varied with changes in specific leaf area (SLA) and stem extension, with relative influences of 14.4\u00a0%, 13.6\u00a0% in the BRT model respectively. Soil respiration in mangroves varied with LAI, but other site specific factors also influenced soil respiration and its response to nutrient enrichment. Strong enhancements in aboveground growth but moderate increases in soil respiration with nutrient enrichment indicated that nutrient enrichment of mangrove forests has likely increased net ecosystem production.", "keywords": ["Rhizophora", "Carbon cycling", "0106 biological sciences", "Salinity", "Nitrogen", "Phosphorus", "Growth", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "13. Climate action", "1110 Plant Science", "8. Economic growth", "Avicennia", "1111 Soil Science", "Soil CO2 efflux"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-014-2036-6"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-014-2036-6", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-014-2036-6", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-014-2036-6"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-02-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-014-2332-1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-23T16:14:59Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-12-02", "title": "Assessment Of Climate Change Impacts On Soil Organic Carbon And Crop Yield Based On Long-Term Fertilization Applications In Loess Plateau, China", "description": "Climate change may significantly impact crop yields and soil. In this study the DNDC model, together with climatic outputs from Hadley Centre\u2019s general circulation model (HadCM3), was used to investigate the influence of projected climate change and management practices on soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics and crop yield of the Chinese Loess Plateau. The results identify management practices with the greatest potential to mitigate climate change and to increase SOC in this area. Field experiments on winter-wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and summer maize (Zea mays L.) rotation included a control and four types of fertilization treatments: T1 (control), T2 (inorganic fertilizer), T3 (NPK inorganic fertilization combined with wheat or maize residue return), T4 (NPK inorganic fertilization combined with low amount of manure) and T5 (NPK inorganic fertilization combined with high amount of manure). DNDC model was calibrated using the field data from 1991 to 2000 and validated from 2001 to 2010. Furthermore, a baseline climate and three future climate scenarios (A1B, A2 and B1) were considered. DNDC model effectively simulated the SOC and crop yields. The findings showed that in 1991\u20132010, T1 maintained its initial SOC level but reduced crop yields, while T2 promoted crop production with less effect on soil carbon storage. However, T3, T4 and T5 enhanced both crop yield and soil carbon, and the best results were observed under T5. The investigated climate scenarios substantially affect SOC content and crop yields. In terms of SOC content, B1 had great effects on T1, T4 and T5, while A1B on T2 and T3. Considering crop yields, in all treatments, the trends are B1\u2009>\u2009A1B\u2009>\u2009A2 for winter-wheat and A2\u2009>\u2009A1B\u2009>\u2009B1 for summer maize, respectively. The impacts of climate changes on SOC dynamics and crop yields were different depending on the management applied. Thus, the adoption of certain management practices in the Chinese Loess Plateau agroecosystems could be critical in maximizing SOC sequestration and reducing CO2 in the atmosphere. Reasonably low temperature and high precipitation can enhance winter-wheat yields, while maize yields need medium temperature and precipitation. We recommended the combined application of inorganic and organic fertilizers to achieve a balance between food security and soil carbon sequestration objectives.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "8. Economic growth", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-014-2332-1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-014-2332-1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-014-2332-1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-014-2332-1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-11-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.agee.2015.01.020", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-23T16:15:23Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-01-30", "title": "The Impact Of Alternative Cropping Systems On Global Warming Potential, Grain Yield And Groundwater Use", "description": "Abstract The large consumption of groundwater for irrigating winter wheat has resulted in a continuous decline in the groundwater table on the North China Plain in recent decades. Alternative cropping systems have been proposed to substitute for the conventional winter wheat\u2013summer maize rotation system for the sustainable use of groundwater in the future. However, the impact of these cropping systems on net global warming potential (net GWP), and greenhouse gas emissions on the basis of per unit of yield (greenhouse gas intensity, GHGI) is poorly documented. Measurements of greenhouse gases were conducted over a four-year period to gain insight into net GWP and GHGI on a crop rotation scale based on an ongoing long-term field experiment on the North China Plain. The cropping systems investigated include one conventional winter wheat\u2013summer maize system (Chem. W/M) as the control and four alternative cropping systems, namely an optimized winter wheat\u2013summer maize system (Opt. W/M), two winter wheat\u2013summer maize (or soybean)\u2013spring maize system with three crops in two years (W/M\u2013M, W/S\u2013M), and a single spring maize per year (M). Compared with the Chem. W/M control, the grain yields in Opt. W/M increased significantly by 19% while the net GWP, GHGI and fertilizer N decreased by 29%, 40% and 40%, respectively, but still consumed as much groundwater (264\u00a0mm\u00a0yr\u22121) as Chem. W/M. In the two-year rotation cycle fertilizer N, groundwater use, net GWP and GHGI in W/M\u2013M, W/S\u2013M and M declined by 56\u201370%, 43\u201363%, 50\u201358% and 30\u201350%, respectively, compared to Chem. W/M. Moreover, these cropping systems consumed only 108\u2013159\u00a0mm\u00a0yr\u22121 groundwater for irrigation, a value close to the theoretical value of 150\u00a0mm\u00a0yr\u22121 to avoid a continuing decline in the groundwater table in this region. However, W/S\u2013M treatment had grain yield reductions of \u221223% and M treatment had \u221230%, and only W/M\u2013M maintained grain yields relative to Chem. W/M. We therefore recommend the W/M\u2013M management package as a preferred option to maintain grain yields together with low GWP and GHGI while mitigating the decline in the groundwater table in areas with a high water deficit.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "8. Economic growth", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "12. Responsible consumption"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2015.01.020"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agriculture%2C%20Ecosystems%20%26amp%3B%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.agee.2015.01.020", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.agee.2015.01.020", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.agee.2015.01.020"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.agee.2015.02.001", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-23T16:15:23Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-02-14", "title": "Surface Organic Carbon Enrichment To Explain Greater Co2 Emissions From Short-Term No-Tilled Soils", "description": "The impact of agricultural practices on CO2 emissions from soils needs to be understood and quantified to enhance ecosystem functions, especially the ability of soils to sequester atmospheric carbon (C), while enhancing food and biomass production. The objective of this study was to assess CO2 emissions in the soil surface following tillage abandonment and to investigate some of the underlying soil physical, chemical and biological controls. Maize (Zea mays) was planted under conventional tillage (T) and no-tillage (NT), both without crop residues under smallholder farming conditions in Potshini, South Africa. Intact top-soil (0\u20130.05 m) core samples (N = 54) from three 5 \u00d7 15 m2 plots per treatment were collected two years after conversion of T to NT to evaluate the short-term CO2 emissions. Depending on the treatment, cores were left intact, compacted by 5 and 10 or had surface crusts removed. They were incubated for 20 days with measurements of CO2 fluxes twice a day during the first three days and once a day thereafter. Soil organic C (SOC) content, soil bulk density (\u03c1b), aggregate stability, soil organic matter quality, and microbial biomass and its activity were evaluated at the onset of the incubation. CO2 emissions were 22% lower under NT compared with T with CO2 emissions of 0.9 \u00b1 0.10 vs 1.1 \u00b1 0.10 mg C\u2013CO2 gC\u22121 day\u22121 under NT and T, respectively, suggesting greater SOC protection under NT. However, there were greater total CO2 emissions per unit of surface by 9% under NT compared to T (1.15 \u00b1 0.03 vs 1.05 \u00b1 0.04 g C\u2013CO2 m\u22122 day\u22121). SOC protection significantly increased with the increase in soil bulk density (r = 0.89) and aggregate stability (from 1.7 \u00b1 0.25 mm to 2.3 \u00b1 0.31, r = 0.50), and to the decrease in microbial biomass and its activity (r = \u22120.59 and \u22120.57, respectively). In contrast, the greater NT CO2 emissions per m2 were explained by top-soil enrichment in SOC by 48% (from 12.4 \u00b1 0.2 to 19.1 \u00b1 0.4 g kg\u22121, r = 0.59). These results on the soil controls of tillage impact on CO2 emissions are expected to inform on the required shifts in agricultural practices for enhancing C sequestration in soils. In the context of the study, any mechanism favoring aggregate stability and promoting SOC allocation deep in the soil profile rather than in the top-soil would greatly diminish soil CO2 outputs and thus stimulate C sequestration.", "keywords": ["550", "non travail du sol", "ma\u00efs", "No-tillage", "no-tillage", "[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences", "Soil Science", "maize", "7. Clean energy", "630", "Sciences de la Terre", "dioxyde de carbone", "non labour", "Climate change", "propri\u00e9t\u00e9 du sol", "2. Zero hunger", "changement climatique", "carbon dioxide", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "No-tillage;Carbon dioxide;Climate change;Maize;Small holders;Africa", "6. Clean water", "Maize", "climate change", "Small holders", "Carbon dioxide", "13. Climate action", "\u00e9mission d'azote", "Africa", "8. Economic growth", "[SDU.STU] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences", "Earth Sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "afrique du sud", "small holders", "azote du sol"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2015.02.001"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agriculture%2C%20Ecosystems%20%26amp%3B%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.agee.2015.02.001", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.agee.2015.02.001", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.agee.2015.02.001"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.agee.2014.02.035", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-23T16:15:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-03-26", "title": "Soil Organic Carbon And Total Nitrogen Stocks Under Different Land Uses In A Semi-Arid Watershed In Tigray, Northern Ethiopia", "description": "Abstract In Ethiopia, massive deforestation of natural forests and extensive use of agricultural lands have resulted in soil degradation. Soil organic carbon (SOC) quantity and quality are crucial to soil quality. However, knowledge on the effects of land use change on soil carbon storage in semi-arid northern Ethiopia is very limited. To address this problem, a study was undertaken within a semi-arid watershed in eastern Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, to estimate SOC and total nitrogen (TN) concentrations and stocks in 0\u20135, 5\u201310, 10\u201320 and 20\u201330\u00a0cm soil layers for five land uses: rainfed crop production (RF), agroforestry based crop production (AF), open communal pasture (OP), silvopasture (SP) and irrigation based fruit production (IR) each with five replications. Generally, both magnitude and difference in SOC and TN concentrations showed a decreasing trend with depth within and among most land uses. SOC and TN concentrations were highly correlated in all land uses and depths. Total stocks in 0\u201330\u00a0cm layer were 25.8, 16.1, 52.6, 24.4 and 39.1\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121 for SOC compared with 2.7, 1.6, 4.9, 1.9 and 3.5\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121 for TN in AF, RF, OP, IR and SP land uses, respectively. With RF as baseline and the duration of 50 years since land use conversion, the average rate of accumulation was 0.73, 0.46, and 0.19\u00a0Mg\u00a0C\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0yr\u22121 in comparison with 0.065, 0.038, and 0.022\u00a0Mg\u00a0N\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0yr\u22121 for OP, SP and AF, respectively. Soils under IR also accumulated 0.56\u00a0Mg\u00a0C\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0yr\u22121 and 0.019\u00a0Mg\u00a0TN\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0yr\u22121 in the 0\u201330\u00a0cm layer and in comparison with the RF land use system on an average of 15 years. The results of this study revealed that conversion of croplands to grasslands or integration of appropriate agroforestry trees in cropping fields in the region has large technical potential of SOC and TN sequestrations.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "8. Economic growth", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2014.02.035"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agriculture%2C%20Ecosystems%20%26amp%3B%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.agee.2014.02.035", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.agee.2014.02.035", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.agee.2014.02.035"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.agee.2014.09.011", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-23T16:15:23Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-11-13", "title": "Effect Of No-Tillage With Weed Cover Mulching Versus Conventional Tillage On Global Warming Potential And Nitrate Leaching", "description": "Abstract Abandoned agricultural land could potentially accumulate soil organic carbon (SOC) when it is no longer used for cultivation and is allowed to revert to natural vegetation. In Japan, no tillage with weed mulching will be adopted in marginal farmland as a new organic farming system because this system minimizes the disturbance of the soil ecosystem and reduces the cost for crop production. The present study aimed to compare the effects of two organic farming systems, namely no-tillage with weed cover mulching and conventional tillage (CT), and two organic fertilizer application modes, namely no fertilizer (N\u2212) and organic fertilizer (N+; 50\u00a0kg\u00a0N\u00a0ha\u22121 during 2010 and 2011 and 80\u00a0kg\u00a0N\u00a0ha\u22121 during 2012) on greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes, soil carbon sequestration, net global warming potential (GWP), and nitrate leaching. Pumpkin (Cucurbita spp.) was cultivated as the main crop in 2010 and 2011, whereas mixed cropping of okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L.), bell pepper (Capsicum annuum L.), and eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) was implemented in 2012. Tillage management increased CH4 uptake immediately after the tillage; however, the effects did not continue in the long term. On the contrary, NTW increased CH4 uptake, and the soil carbon content at the soil surface linearly increased every year after conversion to NTW indicating that improving soil physics by continuing NTW contributed to enhanced CH4 uptake. N2O emissions in NTW were higher only immediately after a weed mowing; however, NTW did not increase the annual N2O emission. In addition, the difference between initial and final SOC (\u0394SOC) was greater in NTW than in CT, which significantly decreased net GWP in NTW in comparison with CT. Nitrate leaching was 48.6% and 47.3% lower in NTW than in CT at soil depths of 30\u201360 and 60\u201390\u00a0cm, respectively. These results show that no-tillage with weed cover mulching contributed to conserve the regional and global environment by reducing nitrate leaching and net GWP from the agro-ecosystem by increasing the annual CH4 uptake and soil carbon sequestration. This system will be adopted for abandoned agricultural land because it reduces net GWP shortly after conversion to this management.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "8. Economic growth", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2014.09.011"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agriculture%2C%20Ecosystems%20%26amp%3B%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.agee.2014.09.011", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.agee.2014.09.011", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.agee.2014.09.011"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.agee.2015.12.026", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-23T16:15:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-01-18", "title": "Long-Term Agricultural Management Maximizing Hay Production Can Significantly Reduce Belowground C Storage", "description": "Liming and fertilization of grasslands have been used for centuries to sustain hay production. Besides improving hay yields, these practices induce compositional shifts in plant and soil microbial communities, including symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. However, in spite of increasing interest in soil carbon (C) sequestration to offset anthropogenic CO", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Nitrogen", "13. Climate action", "8. Economic growth", "SDG 13 - Climate Action", "Phosphorus", "Arbuscular mycorrhiza", "15. Life on land", "SDG 15 - Life on Land"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2015.12.026"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agriculture%2C%20Ecosystems%20%26amp%3B%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.agee.2015.12.026", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.agee.2015.12.026", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.agee.2015.12.026"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11284-014-1127-4", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-23T16:15:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-02-05", "title": "Snow Cover Manipulation In Agricultural Fields: As An Option For Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions", "description": "Abstract

Short\uffe2\uff80\uff90term N2O emission occurs in relation to snowmelt within seasonally frozen soil. To understand the effects of changing winter climates on the N2O flux, snow cover manipulation experiments are useful. In Japan, snow cover manipulation is practiced by farmers to improve agricultural yield and is executed either by applying a broadcast of blackish agent onto the snow cover, which leads to faster snow\uffe2\uff80\uff90melting thereby extending the crop\uffe2\uff80\uff90growing season, or by snow cover removal/re\uffe2\uff80\uff90accumulation, leading to an enhanced soil frost depth for weed management. Implementation of these practices involves using an amount of fossil fuel, in addition to influencing soil\uffe2\uff80\uff90derived N2O emissions, therefore, the load factors of snow cover management practices per unit area of agricultural field were estimated in this study. Field data including micrometeorological conditions, ground surface flux of N2O, and amount of fossil fuel consumed during machinery operation for management practices, were obtained at two sites in Hokkaido over 2 years (2008\uffe2\uff80\uff932010). Fuel consumption for the field spreading was found to be unexpectedly small (0.017 Mg CO2 eq ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921). It was therefore suggested that acceleration of snowmelt may have the potential to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions if the agent used is a low\uffe2\uff80\uff90degradable C\uffe2\uff80\uff90rich material, such as charcoal. For soil frost control, the fossil fuel consumption during a set of snow cover removal/re\uffe2\uff80\uff90accumulation (estimated as 0.052 Mg CO2 eq ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921) is discussed, together with the relationship between possible mechanisms causing stimulation of N2O production in frozen soil and inherent large differences in N2O flux among sites.

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Hence, C-LCA focuses on micro-economic actions linked to macro-economic consequences, by identifying the (marginal) suppliers and technologies prone to be affected by variable scale changes in the demand of a product. Detecting the direct and indirect environmental effects due to changes in the production system is not an easy task. Hence, researchers have combined the consequential perspective with different econometric models. Therefore, the aim of this study is to assess an increase in biocrops cultivation in Luxembourg using three different consequential modelling approaches to understand the benefits, drawbacks and assumptions linked to each approach as applied to the case study selected. Firstly, a partial equilibrium (PE) model is used to detect changes in land cultivation based on the farmers\u2019 revenue maximisation. Secondly, another PE model is proposed, which considers a different perspective aiming at minimising a total adaptation cost (so-called opportunity cost) to satisfy a given new demand of domestically produced biofuel. Finally, the consequential system delimitation for agricultural LCA approach, as proposed by Schmidt (Int J Life Cycle Assess 13:350\u2013364, 2008), is applied. The two PE models present complex shifts in crop rotation land use changes (LUCs), linked to the optimisation that is performed, while the remaining approach has limited consequential impact on changes in crop patterns since the expert opinion decision tree constitutes a simplification of the ongoing LUCs. However, environmental consequences in the latter were considerably higher due to intercontinental trade assumptions recommended by the experts that were not accounted for in the economic models. Environmental variations between the different scenarios due to LUCs vary based on the different expert- or computational-based assumptions. Finally, environmental consequences as compared with the current state-of-the-art are lame due to the limited impact of the shock within the global trade market. The use of several consequential modelling approaches within the same study may help widen the interpretation of the advantages or risks of applying a specific change to a production system. In fact, different models may not only be good alternatives in terms of comparability of scenarios and assumptions, but there may also be room for complementing these within a unique framework to reduce uncertainties in an integrated way.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "8. Economic growth", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "15. 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In this study, a field experiment with controlled warming and clipping was conducted in an alpine meadow at three elevations (4313 m, 4513 m and 4693 m) in Northern Tibet to test the hypothesis that clipping would alter warming effect on biomass production. Open top chambers (OTCs) were used to increase temperature since July, 2008 and the OTCs increased air temperature by approximately 0.9A degrees C similar to 1.8A degrees C during the growing in 2012. Clipping was conducted three times one year during growing season and the aboveground parts of all live plants were clipped to approximately 0.01 m in height using scissors since 2009. Gross primary production (GPP) was calculated from the Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer GPP algorithm and aboveground plant production was estimated using the surface-measured normalized difference vegetation index in 2012. Warming decreased the GPP, aboveground biomass (AGB) and aboveground net primary production (ANPP) at all three elevations when clipping was not applied. In contrast, warming increased AGB at all three elevations, GPP at the two lower elevations and ANPP at the two higher elevations when clipping was applied. These findings show that clipping reduced the negative effect of warming on GPP, AGB and ANPP, suggesting that clipping may reduce the effect of climate warming on GPP, AGB and ANPP in alpine meadows on the Tibetan Plateau, and therefore, may be a viable strategy for mitigating the effects of climate change on grazing and animal husbandry on the Tibetan Plateau.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "8. Economic growth", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "7. 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In the attempt to foster circular economy (CE), cities are increasingly adopting urban living labs (ULLs) as sites of co-production aimed at testing alternative solutions based on the reuse of products, reduction of consumption and recycling of materials. Taking this perspective, our study adopts an exploratory research design to discover the pragmatic implications emerging from a case study. The City of Turin joined proGIreg, a European project that entails the regeneration of former industrial districts by means of nature-based solutions (NBS). Ranging from aquaponics to green roofs, seven NBS have been experimented in Turin, which rely on the use of natural systems to tackle social, economic and environmental challenges efficiently and sustainably. Among them, the most promising is related to the production and test of the \uffe2\uff80\uff98new soil\uffe2\uff80\uff99, a blend obtained by mixing earth materials coming from construction sites with compost, zeolites and mycorrhizae. The case herein presented is interesting to analyse for the multi-stakeholder management setting used, where public institutions, private companies, research institutions, citizens and associations collaborated in the co-creation and testing phase of the NBS. Consequently, the data collected through participant observation and direct interviews allow researchers to describe multi-stakeholders\uffe2\uff80\uff99 dynamics and how they work. Thus, this paper narrates a micro-contextual experience while providing a critique. Results include an analysis of the unique combination of different stakeholders, which strongly impacted on the management and the effectiveness of the entire project. By consequence, the paper offers both theoretical contributions to the relational branch of stakeholder theory and practical evidence in demonstrating the importance of the relational branch of the theory over a more traditional transactional view.

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The objective of this study was to evaluate the differences in the energy budget between organic and conventional olive groves in three locations in the island of Thasos and to calculate CO 2 -emissions based on the used fossil energy. The data were collected through personal interviews with farmers during 2000\u20132003. Twenty-four farmers, who owned olive groves about 1\u00a0ha each, were randomly selected to participate in this study [(4 conventional and 4 organic)\u00a0\u00d7\u00a03 locations]. The means averaged over all locations for fertilizer application energy was significantly higher in conventional than in organic olive groves, while the opposite occurs for insect trapping energy. Means averaged over the two farming systems for weed control energy were significantly higher in the northeastern part of the island, followed by the northwestern and southern part. The means averaged over all locations for labor and fertilizers energy were significantly higher in conventional than in organic olive groves, while the opposite was observed for tools energy. Means averaged over the two farming systems for labor and tools energy were significantly higher in the northwestern part of the island. Means averaged over the two farming systems for electric and pesticides energy were significantly higher in the northwestern part of the island. Total energy inputs were not affected by any of the studied parameters, while outputs were affected by the location, by the farming system and their interaction. Outputs in the northeastern part of the island and production in all parts of the island were significantly lower in organic than in conventional olive groves. Outputs and production were lower in the southern part of the island than in the other parts, since olive groves in southern Thasos are located in slopes with less productive soils. The results show a clear response of energy inputs to energy outputs that resulted from the farming system and location. Global warming potential and CO 2 -emissions were not affected by the farming system and location. Organic olive groves tended to have lower CO 2 -emissions caused by the different uses of fossil energy.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "8. Economic growth", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "7. 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Multiple questions such as where, when, and how bioenergy is deployed have thus not been sufficiently addressed within a single modeling framework. Moreover, techno-economic models that can capture the dependencies of bioenergy supply chain variables among end-use sectors still need to be explored. The present research connects these gaps by presenting the development of a spatio-temporal techno-economic optimization model for cross-sectoral bioenergy policy evaluations under high spatial resolution and long-term temporal resolution. The research recognizes not only the need for energy decarbonization, but also the importance of improving resource efficiency in the palm oil industry, in this case, Malaysia\u2019s palm oil bioenergy industry. The findings highlight the need for multi-sectoral collaboration between the energy sectors to deliver cost-optimal energy decarbonization at the national scale. This is represented by the substitution of up to 30%, 27%, and 12% of the energy demands in the power, heat, and transport sectors with bioenergy, respectively. The conflict between policy targets was also highlighted, namely, that new policies prioritizing bioenergy in the power and transport sectors reduce CO2 more effectively than policies targeting CO2 reduction alone, however, requiring up to 37% more cost in meeting the CO2 reduction commitment. The findings also outline the requirement of co-locating bioenergy production facilities with the existing facilities (e.g., agricultural mills, coal plants) and extending the existing infrastructure network to deliver the bioenergy capacities needed to meet the policy targets.", "keywords": ["690", "550", "9. Industry and infrastructure", "13. Climate action", "8. 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It has been reported that the conversions have led to reduction in soil organic matter and nutrient availability. Soil microbes play crucial roles in nutrient cycling. However, the effects of forest conversion on soil microbes are not yet well understood in temperate forest ecosystems. In this study, the structure and function of bacterial and fungal communities were compared between larch plantations and adjacent secondary forests relative to surface litter and two soil layers (0\u201310\u00a0cm and 10\u201320\u00a0cm) using Illumina MiSeq sequencing. We found that the impacts of the forest conversion on soil microbes mainly occurred in the top (0\u201310\u00a0cm) soil layer. Soils in secondary forests were associated with a higher proportion of copiotrophic bacteria (Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria). In contrast, larch plantation soil was enriched with Acidobacteria, which are oligotrophs that appear to be well suited to acidic conditions. These differences in soil bacterial communities confirm that the forest conversion resulted in soil acidification and a large decline in available soil nutrient in larch plantations. Furthermore, the results of bacterial functional genes, inferred by PICRUSt, and the results of extracellular enzyme assays indicate that fungi likely dominated soil organic carbon decomposition in forest soils. Sordariomycetes was the most abundant fungal class in soils of secondary forests. The abundance of Sordariomycetes fungi was related to higher levels of almost all enzymes measured, except for cellobiohydrolase and \u03b2-1,4-N-acetyl-glucosamidase. These two enzymes were positively associated with Agaricomycetes fungi in soils of secondary forests. The fungal community in the soils of larch plantations was dominated by the class Agaricomycetes, which was positively associated with activities of both hydrolytic and oxidative enzymes. These results indicate that fungal classes, Sordariomycetes and Agaricomycetes, are most likely responsible for the decomposition of soil organic matter in secondary forests, while Agaricomycetes fungi might be more important in controlling decomposition in larch plantations.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "8. Economic growth", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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These experiments were conducted in an intensive vegetable field with 4 consecutive vegetable crops in 2012 and 2013 in southeastern China. The experiment was conducted with a 32 factorial design in triplicate at N fertilizer rates of 0, 1475, 1967\u00a0kg\u00a0N\u00a0ha\u22121 and biochar rates of 0, 20, and 40\u00a0t\u00a0ha\u22121. Although CH4 emissions were not obviously affected by N fertilization, N2O emissions increased by 27.2\u2013116.2% and the net GWP increased by 30.6\u2013307.2%. Consequently, the GHGI increased significantly, but vegetable yield and the NEEB did not improve. Furthermore, biochar amendments did not significantly influence CH4 emissions, but significantly decreased the N2O emissions by 1.7\u201325.4%, the net GWP by 89.6\u2013700.5%, and the GHGI by 89.5\u2013644.8%. In addition, vegetable yields significantly increased by 2.1\u201374.1%, which improved the NEEB. Thus, N fertilization did not increase vegetable yields or the NEEB. However, N fertilization did increase the net GWP and GHGI. In contrast, biochar additions resulted in lower N2O emissions and net GWP and GHGI, but increased vegetable yield and the NEEB in the intensive vegetable production system. Therefore, appropriate biochar amendment should be studied to combat changing climate and to improve the economic profits of vegetable production.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "8. Economic growth", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "12. 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Given today\u2019s high energy prices and interests in energy security, that set-aside area could be converted to produce bioenergy feedstocks. This study evaluates the economic and environmental impacts of such a policy change using a Taiwanese agricultural sector model. The results show that such a strategy provides increased farm revenue, increased rural employment, increased energy sufficiency and reduced greenhouse gas emissions but also increased government expenditures. These outcomes indicate that the agricultural sector could play a positive role by producing renewable energy.", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "8. Economic growth", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "7. Clean energy", "12. Responsible consumption"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Chunto Tso, Ching-Cheng Chang, Bruce A. McCarl, Chi-Chung Chen,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2011.01.004"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Biomass%20and%20Bioenergy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.biombioe.2011.01.004", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.biombioe.2011.01.004", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.biombioe.2011.01.004"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2017.12.008", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-23T16:15:42Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-01-12", "title": "Carbon Footprint Assessment For Irrigated And Rainfed Maize (Zea Mays L.) Production On The Loess Plateau Of China", "description": "Although irrigation increases maize yield, its environmental costs, especially those associated with greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, remain unclear. This study evaluated the differences and mitigated potentials of carbon footprint in irrigated and rainfed maize systems, based on a survey of 120 farmers and a life cycle assessment (LCA). The results indicated that the GHG emission of irrigated system was 5.33\u00a0Mg\u00a0CO2\u00a0eq\u00a0ha\u22121, 40% higher than that in rainfed system, mainly due to the increased consumption of electricity and increased fertiliser application (especially nitrogen). However, the average yield in irrigated system was 10.0\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121, 2.1 times that of rainfed system (4.7\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121), and therefore the carbon footprint was lower by 37%. Fertiliser production, transportation and application contributed 85\u201395% to the carbon footprint in rainfed system and 79\u201386% in irrigated system, while the electricity used for irrigation accounted for 9\u201316% of the carbon footprint in irrigated system. Grouping assessment found that higher yield and lower carbon footprint existed in win\u2013win group in both systems. In addition, scenario analysis shows that the carbon footprint could be reduced to 362\u00a0kg\u00a0CO2\u00a0eq\u00a0Mg\u22121 for rainfed system and to 285\u00a0kg\u00a0CO2\u00a0eq\u00a0Mg\u22121 for irrigated system by optimising crop, fertiliser, and water management. In conclusion, the irrigated system could produce more grain with a lower carbon footprint even though it required more energy, water and fertilisers in this study. And the carbon footprint could be further cut down through optimised integrative management in both rainfed and irrigated systems.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. 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Responsible consumption"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2017.12.008"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Biosystems%20Engineering", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2017.12.008", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2017.12.008", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2017.12.008"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.cropro.2009.05.014", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-23T16:15:48Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2009-06-29", "title": "Integration Of Edible Beans (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.) Into The Push\u2013Pull Technology Developed For Stemborer And Striga Control In Maize-Based Cropping Systems", "description": "Smallholder farming systems in eastern Africa are characterized by cereal/edible legume intercrops in fields severely constrained by parasitic weed, Striga hermonthica, cereal stemborers and declining soil fertility. The push\u2013pull technology concurrently addresses these constraints. It involves intercropping maize with stemborer repellent fodder legume, Desmodium spp. (push), with an attractant crop, Napier grass, Pennisetum purpureum (pull), planted around this intercrop, thus making it difficult to interplant edible legumes. We assessed farmers\u2019 practice and perceptions on intercropping and willingness to integrate beans in their push\u2013pull plots from a sample of 300 farmers in six districts in western Kenya. All the respondents traditionally intercropped maize with beans, planted either between the rows of maize, in the same holes with maize or in between maize plants within a row. The majority (92%) were willing to integrate beans in their push\u2013pull plots. We, therefore, evaluated effects of integrating beans in the maize\u2013desmodium intercrops. Treatments comprised a maize monocrop, maize\u2013bean intercrop and three maize\u2013desmodium intercrops, two of which were integrated with beans, either in the same holes with maize or in between maize plants in a row (bean integration plots). On-farm trials were similarly established among 56 farmers in four districts in western Kenya to assess the two integration methods. S. hermonthica counts and stemborer damage to maize were significantly lower and maize yields significantly higher in the maize\u2013desmodium and bean integration plots than in the other systems. Overall, integration of beans in the maize\u2013desmodium intercrops and the planting arrangement did not compromise the S. hermonthica and stemborer control efficacy of desmodium. Integration of beans significantly increased labour and total variable costs, with these being significantly higher in plots with both crops in different holes than in the same hole. Total revenue, gross benefits and benefit cost ratios did not significantly differ between the bean integration and maize\u2013desmodium intercrops. Furthermore, these parameters were for most part not affected by the planting arrangements, both on-station and on-farm. These results show that integration of beans in the maize\u2013desmodium and indeed push\u2013 pull technology while guaranteeing an additional crop, a protein source, to the farmers does not compromise the observed benefits of the technology but yields same economic benefits. Where labour is easily available, farmers are, however, advised to plant maize and beans in separate holes to avoid the risk of competition for moisture and nutrients where these might be limiting.", "keywords": ["580", "2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "Push\u2013pull", "Stemborers", "Economics", "Bean", "Striga", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "01 natural sciences", "Maize", "Farmers' perceptions", "Intercropping", "8. Economic growth", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Western Kenya"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cropro.2009.05.014"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Crop%20Protection", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.cropro.2009.05.014", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.cropro.2009.05.014", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.cropro.2009.05.014"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2009-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.03.046", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-24T16:15:58Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-04-29", "title": "Tillage Effects On Carbon Footprint And Ecosystem Services Of Climate Regulation In A Winter Wheat-Summer Maize Cropping System Of The North China Plain", "description": "Abstract Inappropriate farm practices can increase greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions and reduce soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration, thereby increasing carbon footprints (CFs), jeopardizing ecosystem services, and affecting climate change. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to assess the effects of different tillage systems on CFs, GHGs emissions, and ecosystem service (ES) values of climate regulation and to identify climate-resilient tillage practices for a winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)-summer maize (Zea mays L.) cropping system in the North China Plain (NCP). The experiment was established in 2008 involving no-till with residue retention (NT), rotary tillage with residue incorporation (RT), sub-soiling with residue incorporation (ST), and plow tillage with residue incorporation (PT). The results showed that GHGs emissions from agricultural inputs were 6432.3\u20136527.3\u00a0kg\u00a0CO2-eq\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0yr\u22121 during the entire growing season, respectively. The GHGs emission from chemical fertilizers and irrigation accounted for >80% of that from agricultural inputs during the entire growing season. The GHGs emission from agricultural inputs were >2.3 times larger in winter wheat than that in the summer maize season. The CFs at yield-scale during the entire growing season were 0.431, 0.425, 0.427, and 0.427 without and 0.286, 0.364, 0.360, and 0.334\u00a0kg\u00a0CO2-eq\u00a0kg\u22121\u00a0yr\u22121 with SOC sequestration under NT, RT, ST, and PT, respectively. Regardless of SOC sequestration, the CFs of winter wheat was larger than that of summer maize. Agricultural inputs and SOC change contributed mainly to the component of CFs of winter wheat and summer maize. The ES value of climate regulation under NT was \u00a5159.2, 515.6, and 478.1\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0yr\u22121 higher than that under RT, ST, and PT during the entire growing season. Therefore, NT could be a preferred \u201cClimate-resilient\u201d technology for lowering CFs and enhancing ecosystem services of climate regulation for the winter wheat\u2013summer maize system in the NCP.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "8. Economic growth", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.03.046"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Indicators", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.03.046", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.03.046", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.03.046"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.envpol.2016.01.007", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-23T16:15:59Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-01-16", "title": "Effects Of Manure And Mineral Fertilization Strategies On Soil Antibiotic Resistance Gene Levels And Microbial Community In A Paddy-Upland Rotation System", "description": "This work investigated the responses of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and the soil microbial community in a paddy-upland rotation system to mineral fertilizer (NPK) and different application dosages of manure combined with NPK. The occurrence of five tetracycline ARGs (tetA, tetB, tetC, tetG and tetW), two sulfonamide ARGs (sul1 and sul2) and one genetic element (IntI1) was quantified. NPK application showed only slight or no impact on soil ARGs abundances compared with the control without fertilizer. Soil ARGs abundances could be increased by manure-NPK application but was related to manure dosage (2250-9000 kg ha(-1)). Principal component analysis (PCA) showed that the soil ARG profile of the treatment with 9000 kg ha(-1) manure separated clearly from the other treatments; the ARGs that contributed most to the discrimination of this treatment were tetA, tetG, tetW, sul1, sul2 and IntI1. Community level physiological profile (CLPP) analysis showed that increasing manure dosage from 4500 kg ha(-1) to 9000 kg ha(-1) induced a sharp increase in almost all of the detected ARGs but would not change the microbial community at large. However, 9000 kg ha(-1) manure application produced a decline in soil microbial activity. Determination of antibiotics and heavy metals in soils suggested that the observed bloom of soil ARGs might associate closely with the accumulation of copper and zinc in soil.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Minerals", "Rotation", "Agriculture", "Drug Resistance", " Microbial", "Oryza", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Anti-Bacterial Agents", "Manure", "Soil", "Metals", " Heavy", "8. Economic growth", "Fertilizers", "Soil Microbiology", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2016.01.007"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Pollution", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.envpol.2016.01.007", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.envpol.2016.01.007", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.envpol.2016.01.007"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.fcr.2013.09.012", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-23T16:16:03Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-10-13", "title": "Cumulative Effects And Economic Benefits Of Intercropping Maize With Food Legumes On Striga Hermonthica Infestation", "description": "The parasitic weed Striga hermonthica, commonly known as striga, is a major biotic constraint to maize production in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where it causes serious food insecurity and poverty in smallholder farming communities. We previously discovered an effective control method for it involving intercropping cereals with fodder legumes in the genus Desmodium, commonly known as desmodium. The objectives of the current study were to evaluate cumulative effects of intercropping maize with the commonly grown food legumes on striga infestation, and to establish any economic benefits of the same. Treatments comprised maize plots planted in monocrop stands or intercropped with five different food legume species or desmodium. Intercropping maize with desmodium gave the most consistent and significant suppression of striga. Out of the food legume intercrops, only crotalaria, groundnut and greengram intercrops had significantly lower striga counts and only in some of the cropping seasons. Grain yields were consistently and significantly higher with desmodium intercrop, although they were also increased with food legume intercrops compared to maize monocrop, thus confirming superiority of intercropping with legumes over maize monocrop. Although production costs in terms of total labor and variable costs were significantly higher for the intercrops than for the maize monocrop, total revenue and net benefits were significantly higher in the former, especially for desmodium. The desmodium intercrop gave the highest economic benefits followed by crotalaria and greengram intercrops. These results confirmed the effectiveness of desmodium in suppressing striga and improving yields and economic returns to smallholder farmers. They also showed that it is profitable to invest in food legume intercrop systems, especially the crotalaria and greengram systems, and indicate that intensifying maize cropping systems through integration of these food legumes in combination with other approaches can contribute to an integrated management of striga and provide a more sustainable and profitable productive system to smallholder farmers.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "8. Economic growth", "1. No poverty", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2013.09.012"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Field%20Crops%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.fcr.2013.09.012", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.fcr.2013.09.012", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.fcr.2013.09.012"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.fcr.2014.12.012", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-23T16:16:03Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-01-23", "title": "Rice Production, Nitrous Oxide Emission And Ammonia Volatilization As Impacted By The Nitrification Inhibitor 2-Chloro-6-(Trichloromethyl)-Pyridine", "description": "Abstract The effectiveness of nitrification inhibitor use in rice paddy fields is variable. In this regard, the impact of 2-chloro-6-(trichloromethyl)-pyridine (CP) nitrification inhibitor on rice yields and nitrogen (N) losses via nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emission and ammonia (NH 3 ) volatilization from rice paddy fields was studied using five treatments: CK (no N applied), N180 and N240 (180\u00a0kg\u00a0N\u00a0ha \u22121 and 240\u00a0kg\u00a0N\u00a0ha \u22121 applied) and their counterparts N180\u00a0+\u00a0CP and N240\u00a0+\u00a0CP (N use plus CP). The field experiment was conducted in a major rice cultivation region of China in 2012 and 2013. The results showed that N180\u00a0+\u00a0CP increased rice yield by 10% in 2012 and 17% in 2013 compared with N180, and reached the same yield as N240. The N 2 O losses were 0.88% of N applied in 2012 and 0.38% in 2013 for N180, while they were reduced to 0.44% and 0.19% for N180\u00a0+\u00a0CP in the two years, respectively. For N240, CP decreased N 2 O losses from 0.78% to 0.71% in 2012 and from 0.38% to 0.22% in 2013. However, NH 3 volatilization was increased by CP from 7.6% of applied N in N180 to 10.2% in N180\u00a0+\u00a0CP in 2012 and from 8.5% to 13.0% in 2013. The NH 3 volatilization for N240 was increased by CP from 14.3% to 24.3% in 2012 and from 26.6% to 35.3% in 2013. Our results suggested that the decrease in N application was permitted by the use of CP since the same yield with 180\u00a0kg\u00a0N\u00a0ha \u22121 with CP was obtained as with 240\u00a0kg\u00a0N\u00a0ha \u22121 in the absence of CP and decreased direct emission of N 2 O. Despite the increase in NH 3 volatilization with CP, and the consequent increase in indirect N 2 O emissions, we calculated that CP led to an overall decrease in global warming potential.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "8. Economic growth", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2014.12.012"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Field%20Crops%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.fcr.2014.12.012", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.fcr.2014.12.012", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.fcr.2014.12.012"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.fcr.2015.07.007", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-23T16:16:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-07-18", "title": "Rice Straw Incorporation Affects Global Warming Potential Differently In Early Vs. Late Cropping Seasons In Southeastern China", "description": "Paddy fields are a major global anthropogenic source of methane (CH\u2084) and nitrous oxide (N\u2082O), which are very potent greenhouse gases. China has the second largest area under rice cultivation, so developing valid and reliable methods for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases while sustaining crop productivity in paddy fields is of paramount importance. We examined the effects of applying straw, a residual product of rice cultivation containing high amounts of carbon and nutrients, to rice crops during both an early crop season (5 April - 25 July 2012) and a late crop season (1 August - 6 November 2012) on CH\u2084 and N\u2082O emissions in a subtropical paddy field in southeastern China. CH\u2084 fluxes had two seasonal peaks, on 5 May and 28 June, in the early crop but only one peak, on 13 August, in the late crop, which could be attributed to the lower temperatures after the final tillering stage in the late crop. Straw application significantly increased mean CH\u2084 cumulative production (g m\u05be\u00b2) relative to the control in the late crop (37.3 vs. 8.34 mg m\u207b\u00b2 P < 0.05) but not in the early crop (0.83 vs. 01.13 mg m\u207b\u00b2 P > 0.05). The application of straw significantly increased N\u2082O cumulative production relative to the control in the late crop (75.9 vs. 43.4 \u03bcg m\u207b\u00b2 h\u207b\u00b9) but decreased N\u2082O cumulative production by over 43% in the early crop (15.60 vs. 27.27 \u03bcg m\u207b\u00b2 h\u207b\u00b9) (P < 0.05). Straw application increased rice yield by 9.63% and 12.58% in early and late crop respectively. Straw incorporation decreased global warming potential in the early season, but increased it in the late season. Thus, despite straw application enhances emissions of greenhouse gases in some situations, its application in the adequate season (here early crop) may be an effective soil amendment that can increase soil fertility without enhancing or even mitigating emissions of greenhouse gases and thus climate change.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "CH\u2084 flux", "Straw application", "13. Climate action", "Seasonal variation", "8. Economic growth", "N\u2082O flux", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Rice paddy", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "12. Responsible consumption"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2015.07.007"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Field%20Crops%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.fcr.2015.07.007", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.fcr.2015.07.007", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.fcr.2015.07.007"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.foreco.2008.08.023", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-23T16:16:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-10-03", "title": "Biomass Production Physiology And Soil Carbon Dynamics In Short-Rotation-Grown Populus Deltoides And P. Deltoides X P. Nigra Hybrids", "description": "Abstract Fast-growing woody species grown in dense, short-rotation plantations on land previously in agriculture offer potential economic benefits in products such as engineered construction material, boiler fuel, non-food-based biofuel feed stocks and other carbon (C)-based products and credits. However, information on the effects on major C pools of short-rotation culture is relatively sparse. In this study, Populus deltoides and P. deltoides\u00a0\u00d7\u00a0P. nigra hybrid clones were grown for 5 years at 1\u00a0m\u00a0\u00d7\u00a01\u00a0m spacing in plantations on a former pasture of high native fertility in the Missouri River floodplain in the lower Midwest U.S.A. Above- and below-ground biomass production, leaf area-based production efficiency, photosynthetic attributes and soil C dynamics were studied. Populus clones yielded up to 70\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121 over 5 years, results that compare favorably to poplar culture in other regions. P. deltoides clones yielded almost twice as much as hybrids (66.3 vs. 36.9\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121) despite more rapid early growth by the latter. Superior yields of P. deltoides clones were associated with greater (32\u2013120%) production efficiency (total biomass yield per unit of time-integrated leaf area) and greater (17\u201342%) photosynthetic capacity, but not with differential allocation patterns of C above and below ground. Soil C losses were observed over 5 years, mostly from the top 12.5\u00a0cm of soil. Soil C loss in this study was associated with conversion from organic matter input-rich pasture culture, and subsequent rotations might not be accompanied by losses of the magnitude observed in the first. Net C sequestration in measured carbon stocks ranged from 11.4 to 33.5\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121 in the two plantations.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "8. Economic growth", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "7. Clean energy", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Stephen G. Pallardy, Julie L. Rhoads, Daniel E. Gibbins, Ryan C. 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Deltoides \u00d7 P. Nigra Hybrids", "description": "Abstract Fast-growing woody species grown in dense, short-rotation plantations on land previously in agriculture offer potential economic benefits in products such as engineered construction material, boiler fuel, non-food-based biofuel feed stocks and other carbon (C)-based products and credits. However, information on the effects on major C pools of short-rotation culture is relatively sparse. In this study, Populus deltoides and P. deltoides\u00a0\u00d7\u00a0P. nigra hybrid clones were grown for 5 years at 1\u00a0m\u00a0\u00d7\u00a01\u00a0m spacing in plantations on a former pasture of high native fertility in the Missouri River floodplain in the lower Midwest U.S.A. Above- and below-ground biomass production, leaf area-based production efficiency, photosynthetic attributes and soil C dynamics were studied. Populus clones yielded up to 70\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121 over 5 years, results that compare favorably to poplar culture in other regions. P. deltoides clones yielded almost twice as much as hybrids (66.3 vs. 36.9\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121) despite more rapid early growth by the latter. Superior yields of P. deltoides clones were associated with greater (32\u2013120%) production efficiency (total biomass yield per unit of time-integrated leaf area) and greater (17\u201342%) photosynthetic capacity, but not with differential allocation patterns of C above and below ground. Soil C losses were observed over 5 years, mostly from the top 12.5\u00a0cm of soil. Soil C loss in this study was associated with conversion from organic matter input-rich pasture culture, and subsequent rotations might not be accompanied by losses of the magnitude observed in the first. Net C sequestration in measured carbon stocks ranged from 11.4 to 33.5\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121 in the two plantations.", "keywords": ["2. 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We measured CH 4 and N 2 O emissions during two cropping seasons in the Philippines from field plots exposed to contrasting treatments during the fallow before land preparation for rice cultivation. The fallow treatments were continuous soil flooding (flooded), soil drying with exclusion of rainfall (dry), soil drying with dry tillage (dry\u00a0+\u00a0tillage), and a control with soil drying and wetting from rainfall (dry and wet). All plots were subdivided into removal of all aboveground rice residues from the previous crop (without residue) and retention of standing biomass after harvest of the previous rice crop (with residue). Emitted gas was collected weekly using chambers. Fallow treatments greatly influenced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions during rice growth. Methane emissions and global warming potential (GWP) in both cropping seasons were highest following the flooded fallow, intermediate following the dry and wet fallow, and lowest following dry and dry\u00a0+\u00a0tillage fallows. The GWP was higher with than without residue across all fallow treatments. Nitrous oxide emissions were small during the season, and CH 4 emissions contributed more than 90% of the cumulative GWP during the rice crop regardless of fallow and residue management. Soil drying between rice crops in the tropics can reduce CH 4 emissions and GWP during the subsequent rice crop.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "climate change", "nitrous oxide", "13. Climate action", "methane", "8. Economic growth", "rice straw", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "food security", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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What are the opportunities for further improvement?", "description": "Life on earth depends on soil health. However, soils are threatened across the world. To respond to the challenges posed by climate change and soil degradation, there is a need to better integrate scientific soil knowledge into the practice. The aim of this paper is to better understand the access to soil knowledge in France and identify opportunities for further improvement, with a particular focus on the difference of point of view between six categories of stakeholders. This study is based on 1951 responses from a participatory stakeholders\u2019 consultation we conducted in France. Our results showed that most stakeholders considered the knowledge they have access to as not adapted to their needs. They also expressed that knowledge sharing between stakeholders was not sufficient. To improve access to soil knowledge, stakeholders suggested adapting at the territorial level the content of soil knowledge shared and transferred, as well as improving ways of sharing and transfer soil knowledge. Additionally, stakeholders valued different exchange networks based on their type of knowledge. Stakeholders with more theoretical soil knowledge (public authorities, NGOs, researchers) stated being more interested in networks between policy, science and society. However, networks with farmers and advisors were more favored by stakeholders with empirical soil knowledge. Considering our findings, in order to strengthen knowledge transfer and sharing, we encourage the promotion of the profession of scientific mediator, as well as the implementation of Living Labs and Lighthouse farms to bring together various stakeholders at a local level towards innovation, training and education. This will ensure a transition towards a more sustainable soil management in Europe.", "keywords": ["multi-actor consultation", "partage des connaissances", "[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "vision des acteurs", "Knowledge sharing", "consultation multi-acteurs", "visi\u00f3n de los actores", "Exchange networks", "consulta multiactor", "Knowledge transfer", "stakeholder perspective.", "333", "12. Responsible consumption", "intercambio de conocimientos", "transfert de connaissances", "sant\u00e9 des sols", "EJPSOIL", "Soil health", "11. Sustainability", "[SDV.SA.SDS] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Soil study", "transferencia de conocimientos", "2. Zero hunger", "salud de los suelos", "soil health", "9. Industry and infrastructure", "4. Education", "15. Life on land", "knowledge transfer", "16. Peace & justice", "exchange networks", "r\u00e9seaux d'\u00e9changes", "Multi-actor consultation", "6. Clean water", "13. Climate action", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "8. 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The majority of households continue to rely on farming to meet their needs. However the country is also going through an important transition as the market extends into formerly remote rural areas. Drawing on surveys of nine villages in three districts, the paper elucidates how households are managing the transition from subsistence to market. Agriculturally resilient communities with considerable potential are contrasted with villages where the scope for increases in farm output are sharply constrained. The growing role of non-farm activities is highlighted and a distinction drawn between `distress' and `progressive' diversification. The paper argues that diversification is propelled by very different forces and has markedly different implications in livelihood terms. It is also suggested that while general statements can be made about livelihood transitions in the country, and the production and reproduction of poverty, at a household level it is often not possible to `read-off' likely livelihood conditions from a mere assessment of resources.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "8. Economic growth", "11. Sustainability", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "1. No poverty", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "12. 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One scenario was created by projecting the historical trend of energy demand assuming that a fraction of this demand is satisfied with ethanol produced from the cultivation of 2.9 million hectares of sugarcane. A life cycle study was performed according to the recommendations from the European Union Directive on Renewable Energies (that include direct land use change emissions) and was used to estimate life cycle Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The method used by Fingerman et al. (2010) was adopted to estimate the water consumption. In the economic analysis, the production cost of ethanol was calculated, and a mitigation cost for carbon dioxide equivalent emissions was estimated. The potential for employment generation was also estimated. The results demonstrate that water use increases by 29.4 times and that the costs increase by 10,706 million USD with the alternative scenario. This scenario, however, has the potential to create 560,619 direct jobs. 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