The design of crop sequences based on ecological intensification (EI) may help to restore lost agroecosystem services and to increase resource use efficiency. Our aim was to evaluate, using a modelling approach, the impact ...

Potential crop models simulate the plant growth under nonlimiting biophysical conditions with no other factor than the climate to which the plants are exposed to. These models may fail to adequately represent the crop ...

In the last few years, crop rotation has gained attention due to its economic, environmental and social importance which explains why it can be highly beneficial for farmers. This paper presents a mathematical model for ...

The spatio-temporal dynamics of insect pests in agricultural landscapes involves the potential of species to move, invade, colonise, and establish in different areas. This study revised the dispersal of the important crop ...

High levels of crop species diversity are considered beneficial. However, increasing diversity might be difficult because of environmental constraints and the reliance on a few major crops for most food supply. Here we ...

The Direct Planting System (DPS), also referred to as direct seeding or no-tillage farming, is distinguished by the permanent occupation of the agricultural land with plant crops besides the maintenance of the straw under ...

The evapotranspiration estimation has great importance to crop productivity and agricultural water management. In this study, evapotranspiration is analyzed in a coffee (Coffea arabica L.) crop located in Piracicaba, state ...