Background: A field study with the same crop rotations was conducted to test the hypothesis that the soil Carbon fluxes and balances could vary according to the crop species and also mitigate carbon dioxide (CO2) emission. ...

The topological structure of interaction networks determines community dynamics and stability. Closeness centrality is a species-level attribute that measures the relative position and proximity of species in the interaction ...

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 ...

Intensive agricultural practices have resulted in progressive soil degradation, with consequences on soil ecosystem services. The inclusion of service crops is a promising alternative to support the sustainability of the ...

The integration of cover crops (CC) into annual crop rotations improves the provision of multiple ecosystem services in time and represents an alternative paradigm to achieve sustainability goals. In spite of the benefits ...

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 ...

Expansion and intensifcation of local agriculture is usually carried out at the cost of decreasing natural habitat and habitat complexity, potentially afecting biodiversity and important ecosystem services (Freitas et al. ...