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The scale dependency of spatial crop species diversity and its relation to temporal diversity
(National Academy of Sciences, 2020-10-20)
Increasing crop species diversity can enhance agricultural sustainability, but the scale dependency of the processes that shape diversity and of the effects of diversity on agroecosystems is insufficiently understood. We ...
Potential, attainable, and current levels of global crop diversity
(IOP Publishing, 2022-04-04)
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 ...
Positive outcomes between crop diversity and agricultural employment worldwide
(Elsevier Science, 2019-10)
Understanding the links between biodiversity-friendly landscapes and human wellbeing is key for supporting policy agendas from local to global scales. United Nations Sustainable Development Goals propose full employment ...
Diversity of Herbivorous Communities in Blueberry Crops of Different Regions of Argentina
(Entomological Society of America, 2011-04)
When a crop is introduced into a new region the herbivorous insect communities are structured from the regional pool of species, and the spatio-temporal heterogeneity of the landscape and the spatial arrangement of habitat ...
Advances in oil crops research-classical and new approaches to achieve sustainable productivity
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2019-06)
The world production of main oil crops is steadily increasing, mainly due to population growth and increased use of oil crops in bio-fuel production and in edible vegetable oils. From the perspective of sowing area in the ...
Non cropped fragments as important spider reservoirs in a Pampean agroecosystem
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2019-11)
Agricultural landscapes include patches of cropped and non-cropped habitats. Non-cropped fragments are often source habitats for natural pest predators which colonize less suitable agricultural fields. The goals of the ...
Land use intensification in the Rolling Pampa, Argentina: Diversifyingcrop sequences to increase yields and resource use
(Elsevier Science, 2016-11)
Increasing and maintaining high productivity levels presents a major challenge facing farmers today and will continue into the near future. More integrative and complex approaches to decision-making, besides adopting new ...
Switching between monocot and dicot crops in rotation schemes of Argentinean productive fields results in an increment of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi diversity
(2016-02)
Despite the importance of mycorrhizal symbiosis, we understand little how different soil managements affect arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) communities. Crop rotation is recommended in sustainable agriculture because ...
Functional crop types are more important than diversity for the productivity, profit and risk of crop sequences in the inner Argentinean Pampas
(Elsevier, 2022-02)
CONTEXT: Over the last 250 years, many natural ecosystems in South America, including the Inner Pampas of Argentina, evolved into extremely simplified agroecosystems. In the last 25 years, simplified soybean-based crop ...