Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment

Papers
(The TQCC of Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment is 15. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Positive relationship between crop centrality and pollination service152
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Differential responses of soil nutrients to edaphic properties and microbial attributes following reclamation of abandoned salinized farmland116
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Effect of land-use history on tree taxonomic and functional diversity in cocoa agroforestry plantations107
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No wild bees? Don't worry! Non-bee flower visitors are still hard at work: The edge effect, landscape, and local characteristics determine taxonomic and functional diversity in apple orchards94
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Integrating chemical plant trait- and ecological-based approaches to better understand differences in insect herbivory between cultivated and natural systems89
Conversion of natural coastal wetlands to mariculture ponds dramatically decreased methane production by reducing substrate availability89
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Biodiversity measures providing food and nesting habitat increase the number of bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) colonies in modelled agricultural landscapes77
Spontaneous flowering vegetation favours hoverflies and parasitoid wasps in apple orchards but has low cascading effects on biological pest control75
How diverse are sun-grown coffee plantations? Local and landscape heterogeneity drives Andean rove beetle diversity73
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Climate change mitigation potential of summer cowpea cover crops in Southern Australian cropping systems is limited68
Edaphoclimatic drivers of the effect of extensive vegetation management on ecosystem services and biodiversity in vineyards67
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Functional structure and interactions within communities composed of cover crops and spontaneous species, along a cropping practices gradient66
Grazing intensity drives a trophic shift in the diet of common alpine birds64
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Alternative fertilization practices lead to improvements in yield-scaled global warming potential in almond orchards58
Great and fast increase in soil CH4 uptake after reforestation in karst cropland area is linked to the environmental and microbial factors57
Effects of conservation tillage practices on rice yields and greenhouse gas emissions: Results from a 10-year in situ experiment56
Consistent soil organic carbon accumulation under hedges driven by increase in light particulate organic matter56
Warming-induced increase in N2O fluxes decreases with the legacy of agriculture and latitude in abandoned croplands55
Diversified crop rotation: Synergistically enhancing peanut yield and soil organic carbon stability55
Physical and chemical soil quality and litter stock in agroforestry systems in the Eastern Amazonia55
Effects of intercropping on composition and molecular diversity of soil dissolved organic matter in apple orchards: Different roles of bacteria and fungi55
Restoration of degraded soils with perennial pastures shifts soil microbial communities and enhances soil structure54
Grassland management and integration during crop rotation impact soil carbon changes and grass-crop production54
Tropical forest restoration promotes soil phosphorus bioavailability in SW China: Processes and predictors54
Carbon and nutrient dynamics in landscapes under different levels of anthropogenic intervention in the semi-arid region of Brazil54
Public and private economic benefits of adopting conservation tillage for cotton pollination53
Quantifying N leaching losses as a function of N balance: A path to sustainable food supply chains53
Global greenhouse gas emissions from aquaculture: a bibliometric analysis52
Intercropping enhances beneficial arthropods and controls pests: A systematic review and meta-analysis52
Maintaining scattered trees to boost carbon stock in temperate pastures does not compromise overall pasture quality for the livestock51
Multi-objective spatial optimization to balance trade-offs between farmland bird diversity and potential agricultural net returns51
Understanding the increased maize productivity of intercropping systems from interactive scenarios of plant roots and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi50
A global synthesis on the rational management practices for enhancing phosphorus use efficiency in agricultural systems49
Intensification of land use in Neotropical environments determines loss of taxonomic and functional diversity of spiders49
Key functional guilds with high trophic level organisms in soil are vital contributors to greenhouse gas emissions from cropland48
Fencing reshapes spatial patterns of nutrient pools during peak-growing-season in the Tibetan grasslands: Spatial heterogeneity of C and N pools and elevational homogeneity of P pools48
Health management of Cd-contaminated soil using Ca-Al layered double hydroxide: Response of different vegetables48
Stable water isotopes reveal modification of cereal water uptake strategies in agricultural co-cropping systems48
Effects of grazing on temperate grassland ecosystems: A meta-analysis48
Assessing the impact of vegetative cover within Northeast Arkansas agricultural ditches on sediment and nutrient loads47
Combining entomopathogenic Pseudomonas bacteria, nematodes and fungi for biological control of a below-ground insect pest46
Effects of patch-burn grazing and rotational grazing on grassland bird abundance, species richness, and diversity in native grassland pastures of the Midsouth USA46
Landscape epidemiology of an insect-vectored plant-pathogenic bacterium: Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum in carrots in Finland46
Pace of life and mobility as key factors to survive in farmland – Relationships between functional traits of diurnal Lepidoptera and landscape structure46
Weeds from non-flowering crops as potential contributors to oilseed rape pollination46
Bird’s-eye view: Remote sensing insights into the impact of mowing events on Eurasian Curlew habitat selection45
A multi-taxa approach reveals contrasting responses of arthropod communities and related ecosystem services to field margin proximity and crop type45
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Semi-natural habitats on organic strawberry farms and in surrounding landscapes promote bird biodiversity and pest control potential45
Concerted action needed among smallholders when using mass trapping of insect pests45
Increasing plant diversity promotes ecosystem functions in rainfed rice based short rotations in Malagasy highlands44
Enhanced carbon sinks following double-rice conversion to green manure-rice cropping rotation systems under optimized nitrogen fertilization in southeast China44
Soybean dependence on biotic pollination decreases with latitude44
Management strategies for reducing phosphorus levels in saltwater-intruded agricultural fields44
Cooperation between specialized cropping and livestock farms at local level reduces carbon footprint of agricultural system: A case study of recoupling maize-cow system in South China43
Nitrate accumulation in the soil profile is the main fate of surplus nitrogen after land-use change from cereal cultivation to apple orchards on the Loess Plateau43
Arthropod abundance is most strongly driven by crop and semi-natural habitat type rather than management in an intensive agricultural landscape in the Netherlands43
Differences in arthropod communities between grazed areas and grazing exclosures depend on arthropod groups and vegetation types43
Flowering plants in open tomato greenhouses enhance pest suppression in conventional systems and reveal resource saturation for natural enemies in organic systems42
Quantification of resilience metrics as affected by conservation agriculture at a watershed scale42
Effects of field-level strip and mixed cropping on aerial arthropod and arable flora communities42
Smaller agricultural fields, more edges, and natural habitats reduce herbicide-resistant weeds42
Soybeans as a non-Bt refuge for Helicoverpa zea in maize-cotton agroecosystems41
Habitat and crop selection by red deer in two different landscape types41
Neonicotinoid retention and transport in a maize cropping system with contour prairie strips41
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Bats provide a critical ecosystem service by consuming a large diversity of agricultural pest insects41
Nitrous oxide emission factors for cattle dung and urine deposited onto tropical pastures: A review of field-based studies40
Effect of increasing nitrogen fertilization on soil nitrous oxide emissions and nitrate leaching in a young date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L., cv. Medjool) orchard40
Identifying the best fertilization practices by many-objective optimization to mitigate nitrous oxide emissions from tea field in the subtropics in Central China40
Grain legumes and dryland cereals contribute to carbon sequestration in the drylands of Africa and South Asia40
A comparative analysis of soil organic carbon stock and soil aggregation in two crop sequences in the Rolling Pampa (Argentina)40
Hand pollination under shade trees triples cocoa yield in Brazil’s agroforests40
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Limitations to the soil impacts of tree regrowth in improved cattle pasture40
Quantifying soil organic carbon’s critical role in cereal productivity losses under annualized crop rotations39
Agronomic and environmental phosphorus decline in coastal plain soils after cessation of manure application39
Phosphorus addition stimulates overall carbon acquisition enzymes but suppresses overall phosphorus acquisition enzymes: A global meta-analysis39
Comment on “Dominance of honey bees is negatively associated with wild bee diversity in commercial apple orchards regardless of management practices” [Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 323 (2022) 107697]39
Bacterial functions are main driving factors on paddy soil organic carbon in both surface soil and subsoil39
By reconstructing a multifunctional intensive microbiome, effective microorganisms (EM) improve the ecological environment of rice–crayfish cocropping38
Effects of crop rotation on plant- and microbial-derived carbon within particulate and mineral fractions in paddy soils38
Does olive cultivation sequester carbon?: Carbon balance along a C input gradient38
Effects of adjacent habitat on nocturnal flying insects in vineyards and implications for bat foraging38
Cover crop impacts water quality in a tile-terraced no-till field with corn-soybean rotation38
The coffee-mango association promotes favorable soil conditions for better-nourished and higher-yielding plants38
Reduced weeding shows potential to regulate nutrient leaching in a cabbage (Brassica oleracea, var. capitata) lysimeter trial37
Maize-alfalfa intercropping alleviates the dependence of multiple ecosystem services on nonrenewable fertilization37
Do voluntary sustainability standards reduce primary forest loss? A global analysis for food commodities37
Land cover associations of wild bees visiting flowers in apple orchards across three geographic regions of southeast Australia37
Net ecosystem carbon budget and net greenhouse gas emissions under diverse crop rotation using cover crops compared to a conventional crop rotation36
Size-dependent of phosphorus loss and migration driven by rainfall: Evidences from observation and stochastic simulation36
Finding guidelines for cabbage intercropping systems design as a first step in a meta-analysis relay for vegetables36
Field assessment of sequential herbicide mixtures on nitrogen cycle-related functions in soybean production36
Shade trees and agrochemical use affect butterfly assemblages in coffee home gardens36
Impact of oilseed rape coverage and other agricultural landscape characteristics on two generations of the red mason bee Osmia bicornis36
Modeling soil organic matter changes under crop diversification strategies and climate change scenarios in the Brazilian Cerrado36
Interaction networks between spittlebugs and vegetation types in and around olive and clementine groves of Corsica; implications for the spread of Xylella fastidiosa36
Pesticide contamination and their botanical sources in pollen loads collected by honeybees in Kenya: A spatio-temporal context36
Organic fertilizer and Bacillus amyloliquefaciens promote soil N availability via changing different mineralization–immobilization turnover rates in acidic soils35
Protective covers impact honey bee colony performance and access to outside resources35
Crop management strategies shape the shared temporal dynamics of soil food web structure and functioning35
Oilseed rape-rice rotation with recommended fertilization and straw returning enhances soil organic carbon sequestration through influencing macroaggregates and molecular complexity35
Plot and border effects on herbicide-resistant weed seed consumption by rodents in corn and soybean crops of central Argentina35
Greenhouse gas emissions from cattle enclosures in semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa: The case of a rangeland in South-Central Kenya35
Pollination services in the North China Plain measured using buckwheat sentinel plants; is there a deficit?35
Management intensive grazing on New England dairy farms enhances soil nitrogen stocks and elevates soil nitrous oxide emissions without increasing soil carbon34
Evaluating a new intercrop model for capturing mixture effects with an extensive intercrop dataset34
Management intensity and landscape configuration affect the potential for woody plant regeneration in coffee agroforestry34
Nutrient enrichment weakens community temporal stability via asynchrony and species dominance in a subalpine grassland34
Nitrate Δ17O tracer method for determining gross nitrification rates34
Effects of slope morphology and position on soil nutrients after deforestation in the hilly loess region of China33
Experimental insecticide applications change tomato pollinator assemblages and do not increase fruit production33
Quantifying neonicotinoid insecticide residues in milkweed and other forbs sampled from prairie strips established in maize and soybean fields33
Cultivated milkweed hosts high diversity of surface-active and soil-dwelling arthropods in a New England case study33
Ammonia, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, and water vapor fluxes after green manuring of faba bean under Mediterranean climate33
Optimizing N fertilizer rates sustained rice yields, improved N use efficiency, and decreased N losses via runoff from rice-wheat cropping systems33
The value of biotic pollination and dense forest for fruit set of Arabica coffee: A global assessment33
Recovered grassland area rather than plantation forest could contribute more to protect epigeic spider diversity in northern China33
Response of N2O emissions to biochar amendment on a tea field soil in subtropical central China: A three-year field experiment32
Trait-dependent responses of birds and bats to season and dry forest distance in tropical agroforestry32
Evaluation of agricultural soil health after applying pyraclostrobin in wheat/maize rotation field based on the response of soil microbes32
Habitat quality and connectivity in kettle holes enhance bee diversity in agricultural landscapes32
Land-use intensification reduces soil macrofauna biomass at the community but not individual level32
Response of foliage- and ground-dwelling arthropods to insecticide application: Early step for cotton IPM in the Brazilian semiarid32
Occupancy and detection of agricultural threats: The case of Philaenus spumarius, European vector of Xylella fastidiosa32
Impact of long-term application of manure and inorganic fertilizers on common soil bacteria in different soil types32
Residential and agricultural soils dominate soil organic matter loss in a typical agricultural watershed of subtropical China32
Dissolved nitrogen exports from watersheds with contrasting land uses in sub-humid cool-temperate climates31
Plastic film-mulched ridges and straw-mulched furrows increase soil carbon sequestration and net ecosystem economic benefit in a wheat-maize rotation31
Intercropping shifts the balance between generalist arthropod predators and oilseed pests towards natural pest control31
Many small rather than few large sources identified in long-term bee pollen diets in agroecosystems31
Exploitation of neighbouring subsoil for nutrient acquisition under annual-perennial strip intercropping systems31
Reduction of banana fusarium wilt associated with soil microbiome reconstruction through green manure intercropping31
Vineyard modernization drives changes in bird and mammal occurrence in vineyard plots in dry farmland30
Temperature response of soil respiration decreases with latitude and elevation in abandoned croplands30
Barnacle goose Branta leucopsis derogation shooting effort in relation to abundance and vulnerable crops30
Patterns of denitrifier communities assembly and co-occurrence network regulate N2O emissions in soils with long-term contrasting tillage histories30
Biochar-amended poultry mortality composting to increase compost temperatures, reduce ammonia emissions, and decrease leachate’s chemical oxygen demand30
Enhanced nitrogen fertilizer combined with straw incorporation can reduce global warming potential with higher carbon sequestration in a summer maize-winter wheat rotation system30
Beyond the boundaries: Do spatio-temporal trajectories of land-use change and cross boundary effects shape the diversity of woody species in Uruguayan native forests?30
Restoring the inventory of biomass and soil carbon in abandoned croplands: An agroforestry system approach in India's eastern Himalayas30
How weed management influence plant community composition, taxonomic diversity and crop yield: A long-term study in a Mediterranean vineyard30
Does agri-environment scheme participation in England increase pollinator populations and crop pollination services?30
Partially replacing chemical fertilizer with manure improves soil quality and ecosystem multifunctionality in a tea plantation29
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities of topsoil and subsoil of an annual maize-wheat rotation after 15-years of differential mineral and organic fertilization29
Cooperative management can mitigate trade-offs between livestock production and ecological functions to promote grassland sustainability29
Cropland-scale interaction between maize evapotranspiration and groundwater in a well-irrigation district in Mu Us Sandy Land, Northwest China29
Legume growth and straw retention in sugarcane fields: Effects on crop yield, C and N storage in the central-south Brazil29
Pyric herbivory increases soil microbial diversity but has a site-dependent effect on soil mesofauna in the mid-term29
Weed response in winter wheat fields on a gradient of glyphosate use in the recent past29
Crop rotation and green manure type enhance organic carbon fractions and reduce soil arsenic content29
Key decomposers of straw depending on tillage and fertilization29
Land cover and climate drive shifts in Bombus assemblage composition29
How can we enhance crops with flowers to increase pollination services and stop bee decline?28
Vineyards compared to natural vegetation maintain high arthropod species turnover but alter trait diversity and composition of assemblages28
Agricultural extensification enhances functional diversity but not phylogenetic diversity in Mediterranean olive groves: A case study with ant and bird communities28
Undestroyed winter cover crop strip in maize fields supports ground-dwelling arthropods and predation28
Smallholder agriculture in African dryland agroecosystems has limited impact on trophic group composition, but affects arthropod provision of ecosystem services28
The impact of long-term field experiments under different cropping systems on the molecular dynamics and stability of the soil Humeome28
Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from rice grown on organic soils in the temperate zone28
Effects of dairy farming management practices on carbon balances in New Zealand’s grazed grasslands: Synthesis from 68 site-years28
Effects of agricultural landscape heterogeneity on pollinator visitation rates in Mediterranean oilseed rape28
Increasing N use efficiency while decreasing gaseous N losses in a non-tilled wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) crop using a double inhibitor28
Diversified crop sequences to reduce soil nitrogen mining in agroecosystems28
Habitat availability and climate warming drive changes in the distribution of grassland grasshoppers27
Weed community evolution under diversification managements in a new planted organic apricot orchard27
Flower margins support natural enemies adjacent to apple orchards but evidence of spill-over is mixed27
Corrigendum to “Flower strips, conservation field margins and fallows promote the arable flora in intensively farmed landscapes: Results of a 4-year study” [Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 304 (December 202027
Nitrate losses in subsurface drainage and nitrous oxide emissions from a winter camelina relay cropping system reveal challenges to sustainable intensification27
Effects of wildflower strips, landscape structure and agricultural practices on wild bee assemblages – A matter of data resolution and spatial scale?27
Synergistic use of optical and biophysical traits to assess Bromus inermis pasture performance and quality under different management strategies in Eastern Nebraska, U.S.27
Long-term cover crop management effects on soil properties in dryland cropping systems27
Effects of exogenous nitrogen addition on soil organic nitrogen fractions in different fertility soils: Result from a 15N cross-labeling experiment27
Differing short-term impacts of agricultural tarping on soil-dwelling and surface-active arthropods27
Characterization of nirS- and nirK-containing communities and potential denitrification activity in paddy soil from eastern China27
Wild plants in hedgerows and weeds in crop fields are important floral resources for wild flower-visiting insects, independently of the presence of intercrops27
Development of insects in newly established grassland over six years: Increased conservation benefits through diverse plant communities27
Effects of mound building and caching by steppe mouse (Mus spicilegus Petényi) on the vegetation in agroecosystems27
Enrichment of microbial taxa after the onset of wheat yellow mosaic disease27
Corrigendum to “Agricultural land management alters the biogeochemical cycling capacity of aquatic and sediment environments” [Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 357 (2023) 108661]26
Ribwort plantain inclusion reduces nitrate leaching from grass-clover swards; A multi-year five soil study26
Plant litter regulates the effect of nitrogen and water enrichment on ecosystem carbon sequestration in a semi-arid grassland26
Inhibitory effect of ammonium conversion by deep nitrogen application effectively reduces gaseous nitrogen losses26
Grassland irrigation and grazing prohibition have significantly affected vegetation and microbial diversity by changing soil temperature and moisture, evidences from a 6 years experiment of typical te26
Honeybees are far too insufficient to supply optimum pollination services in agricultural systems worldwide26
Effect of dissolved organic matter (DOM) on greenhouse gas emissions in rice varieties26
Aboveground and belowground biodiversity responses to seed mixtures and mowing in a long-term set-aside experiment26
Ameliorating C and N balance without loss of productivity by applying mulching measures in rainfed areas26
Nonlinear response of soil microbial network complexity to long-term nitrogen addition in a semiarid grassland: Implications for soil carbon processes26
Insights into the farming-season carbon budget of coastal earthen aquaculture ponds in southeastern China26
Exponential relationship between N2O emission and fertilizer nitrogen input and mechanisms for improving fertilizer nitrogen efficiency under intensive plastic-shed vegetable production in China: A sy26
Landscape-scale management for biodiversity and ecosystem services26
Yield effects of conservation farming practices under fall armyworm stress: The case of Zambia25
Evaluating greenhouse gas mitigation through alternate wetting and drying irrigation in Colombian rice production25
Increase of soil organic carbon stock by iron slag-based silicate fertilizer application in paddy soils25
Nitrogen fertilizer technologies: Opportunities to improve nutrient use efficiency towards sustainable coffee production systems25
Stock and stability of organic carbon in soils under major agro-ecological zones and cropping systems of sub-tropical India25
Long-term application of controlled-release fertilizer enhances rice production and soil quality under non-flooded plastic film mulching cultivation conditions25
Linkage between soil ectoenzyme stoichiometry ratios and microbial diversity following the conversion of cropland into grassland25
Annual flower strips and honeybee hive supplementation differently affect arthropod guilds and ecosystem services in a mass-flowering crop25
Agroforestry with contour planting of grass contributes to terrace formation and conservation of soil and nutrients on sloping land25
Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on crop growth and soil N2O emissions in the legume system25
Wheat area expansion into northern higher latitudes and global food security25
Effect of long-term tillage and residue managements on weed flora and its impact on winter wheat development25
Intercropping in rainfed Mediterranean olive groves contributes to improving soil quality and soil organic carbon storage25
Cropping systems with higher organic carbon promote soil microbial diversity25
The planting years of vineyards alters the carbon fixation pathways by soil autotrophic microorganism25
Adaptive multi-paddock grazing increases mineral associated soil carbon in Northern grasslands25
Cover crop grazing effects on soil properties in no-tillage dryland cropping systems in the central Great Plains25
Importance of maternal resources in pollen limitation studies with pollinator gradients: A case study with sunflower25
Grass-legume mixtures enhance forage production via the bacterial community25
A geospatial assessment of soil properties to identify the potential for crop rotation in rice systems25
Assessing high quality agricultural lands through the ecosystem services lens: Insights from a rapidly urbanizing agricultural region in the western United States25
Pasture age impacts soil fungal composition while bacteria respond to soil chemistry24
Dynamics between soil fixation of fertilizer phosphorus and biological phosphorus mobilization determine the phosphorus budgets in agroecosystems24
Land use and temperature shape the beta diversity of soil nematodes across the Mollisol zone in northeast China24
Nitrous oxide emissions dynamics in Indian agricultural landscapes: Revised emission rates and new insights24
Positive effects of crop rotation on soil aggregation and associated organic carbon are mainly controlled by climate and initial soil carbon content: A meta-analysis24
How is plant biodiversity inside grassland type related to economic and ecosystem services: An Estonian case study24
Exploring VA presence in groundwater of densely populated livestock farming watersheds: Sources, seasonal dynamics and geospatial relationships24
Nitrogen use efficiency from manure, fertilizer, and maize root to wheat uptake in a one-year 15N labeling field study24
Effect of chemical fertilizer and straw-derived organic amendments on continuous maize yield, soil carbon sequestration and soil quality in a Chinese Mollisol24
Effects of long-term biochar and biochar-based fertilizer application on brown earth soil bacterial communities24
Soil CO2 in organic and no-till agroecosystems24
Understanding the drivers of ecosystem multifunctionality in the Mongolian steppe: The role of grazing history and resource input24
Coupling amendment of biochar and organic fertilizers increases maize yield and phosphorus uptake by regulating soil phosphatase activity and phosphorus-acquiring microbiota24
Intercropping with Trifolium repens contributes disease suppression of banana Fusarium wilt by reshaping soil protistan communities24
Climate change mitigation and adaptation in agriculture: Why agroforestry should be part of the solution23
Biochar combined with N fertilization and straw return in wheat-maize agroecosystem: Key practices to enhance crop yields and minimize carbon and nitrogen footprints23
Belowground C sequestrations response to grazing exclusion in global grasslands: Dynamics and mechanisms23
Grazing intensity alters soil microbial diversity and network complexity in alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau23
Effects of 3-year biochar application on carbon sequestration, nitrogen retention and nitrate leaching of fluvo-aquic soil profiles in vegetable rotation fields23
Pollinators enhance the production of a superior strawberry – A global review and meta-analysis23
Structural heterogeneity of wildflower strips enhances fructose feeding in parasitoids23
Soil ecosystem multifunctionality is strongly linked with crop yield after four decades chemical fertilization in black soil23
Small islands in the wide open sea: The importance of non-farmed habitats under power pylons for mammals in agricultural landscape23
Grasses don’t always win: Short-term effects of fertilization on taxonomic and functional diversity of a Mediterranean annual grassland23
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