Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment

Papers
(The TQCC of Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment is 17. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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Below-ground biodiversity in agricultural systems: The role of crop-specific management in shaping soil arthropod communities222
Enhanced rice phosphorus use efficiency under elevated atmospheric CO2 and its drivers199
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Management strategies for reducing phosphorus levels in saltwater-intruded agricultural fields130
Effects of patch-burn grazing and rotational grazing on grassland bird abundance, species richness, and diversity in native grassland pastures of the Midsouth USA122
How diverse are sun-grown coffee plantations? Local and landscape heterogeneity drives Andean rove beetle diversity114
Experimental insecticide applications change tomato pollinator assemblages and do not increase fruit production109
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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 orchards97
Effects of non-crop habitats on ground-dwelling arthropod diversity in a desert-oasis region of northwest China95
Patterns of denitrifier communities assembly and co-occurrence network regulate N2O emissions in soils with long-term contrasting tillage histories90
Nitrous oxide emissions dynamics in Indian agricultural landscapes: Revised emission rates and new insights84
Nitrous oxide emission factors for cattle dung and urine deposited onto tropical pastures: A review of field-based studies83
Intercropping in rainfed Mediterranean olive groves contributes to improving soil quality and soil organic carbon storage83
The planting years of vineyards alters the carbon fixation pathways by soil autotrophic microorganism82
Identifying the best fertilization practices by many-objective optimization to mitigate nitrous oxide emissions from tea field in the subtropics in Central China82
Great and fast increase in soil CH4 uptake after reforestation in karst cropland area is linked to the environmental and microbial factors81
Increase of soil organic carbon stock by iron slag-based silicate fertilizer application in paddy soils81
Effects of intercropping on composition and molecular diversity of soil dissolved organic matter in apple orchards: Different roles of bacteria and fungi80
Proxydetection of the impact distance of trees on crops: An indicator of the Land Equivalent Ratio?80
Nitrate losses in subsurface drainage and nitrous oxide emissions from a winter camelina relay cropping system reveal challenges to sustainable intensification79
Land cover and climate drive shifts in Bombus assemblage composition79
Combining entomopathogenic Pseudomonas bacteria, nematodes and fungi for biological control of a below-ground insect pest77
Long-term cover crop management effects on soil properties in dryland cropping systems75
Agroforestry with contour planting of grass contributes to terrace formation and conservation of soil and nutrients on sloping land74
Temperature response of soil respiration decreases with latitude and elevation in abandoned croplands74
Quantifying N leaching losses as a function of N balance: A path to sustainable food supply chains74
Do voluntary sustainability standards reduce primary forest loss? A global analysis for food commodities74
Seasonal and annual methane and nitrous oxide emissions affected by tillage and cover crops in flood-irrigated rice73
Diversified crop rotation: Synergistically enhancing peanut yield and soil organic carbon stability71
Agricultural extensification enhances functional diversity but not phylogenetic diversity in Mediterranean olive groves: A case study with ant and bird communities71
Ameliorating C and N balance without loss of productivity by applying mulching measures in rainfed areas69
Response of soil organic carbon fractions to cover cropping: A meta-analysis of agroecosystems69
Plastic film-mulched ridges and straw-mulched furrows increase soil carbon sequestration and net ecosystem economic benefit in a wheat-maize rotation68
Using the paddy eco-ditch wetland system to reduce nitrogen non-point source pollution discharge from paddies: A consecutive six-year study in the Yunnan Plateau, China66
Effect of dissolved organic matter (DOM) on greenhouse gas emissions in rice varieties66
Crop rotation and green manure type enhance organic carbon fractions and reduce soil arsenic content65
Root exudate-mediated plant–microbiome interactions determine plant health during disease infection64
Soil microbial composition, diversity, and network stability in intercropping versus monoculture responded differently to drought64
Pyric herbivory increases soil microbial diversity but has a site-dependent effect on soil mesofauna in the mid-term64
Effect of long-term tillage and residue managements on weed flora and its impact on winter wheat development61
Soil organic carbon and nitrogen fractions as affected by straw and nitrogen management on the North China Plain59
Flowering plants in open tomato greenhouses enhance pest suppression in conventional systems and reveal resource saturation for natural enemies in organic systems58
Pasture age impacts soil fungal composition while bacteria respond to soil chemistry58
The value of biotic pollination and dense forest for fruit set of Arabica coffee: A global assessment57
Impact assessment of soil salinity on crop production in Uzbekistan and its global significance56
A global synthesis on the rational management practices for enhancing phosphorus use efficiency in agricultural systems56
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Feed grain polycultures mitigate weather risk, support arthropods, and suppress weeds in the Western Corn Belt55
Mineral fertilizer substitution and application of Bacillus velezensis SQR9 reduced nitrogen-oxide emissions in tropical vegetable fields54
The value of two agri-environment scheme habitats for pollinators: Annually cultivated margins for arable plants and floristically enhanced grass margins53
Pastures under dry climate can be cold spots for soil nitrous oxide emissions from grazing cattle excreta53
Enhanced soil aggregation and reduced colloidal phosphorus loss by straw biochars in tea and medicinal herb cropping systems53
Responses of carbon and microbial community structure to soil nitrogen status vary between maize and potato residue decomposition52
Increasing water-use efficiency in rice fields threatens an endangered waterbird52
Moderate sheep grazing increases arthropod biomass and habitat use by steppe birds52
Soil health indicator responses to three years of cover crop and crop rotation in a northern semi-arid region, the Canadian prairies52
Apple trees utilize 3–5% of root biomass in the weathered rock layer to absorb 33–34% of their transpiration water consumption51
Mitigation of ammonia volatilization on farm using an N stabilizer – A demonstration in Quzhou, North China Plain51
Corrigendum to “A synthesis of the effect of regenerative agriculture on soil carbon sequestration in Southeast Asian croplands” [Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 349 (2023) 108450]51
Seasonal effects reveal potential mitigation strategies to reduce N2O emission and N leaching from grassland swards of differing composition (grass monoculture, grass/clover and multispecies)51
Rationale for field-specific on-farm precision experimentation51
Intensification differentially affects the delivery of multiple ecosystem services in subtropical and temperate grasslands50
Viral abundance and lysogenic fraction respond dynamically to cover-crop burn down and vary with conservation soil management practices50
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Integrating straw return and tillage practices to enhance soil organic carbon sequestration in wheat–maize rotation systems in the North China Plain50
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Influence of phosphorus fertiliser use on two New Zealand pasture insect pest communities50
Semiochemically assisted trap cropping to reduce broad bean beetle (Bruchus rufimanus) infestation in faba bean48
Microbial effects of prolonged nitrogen fertilization and straw mulching on soil N2O emissions using metagenomic sequencing48
Enhancing crop productivity and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions through synergistic potassium management in intensive wheat production48
Grazing and applications of nitrogen and phosphorus effects on herbage production and greenhouse gas emissions of pasture in an arid region47
Bacterial community structure and resilience are partially restored after 30 years of rehabilitation of an agricultural riparian system47
Organic amendments increase crop yield while mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from the perspective of carbon fees in a soybean-wheat system47
Soil health assessment in the Yangtze River Delta of China: Method development and application in orchards47
Ungulates alter plant cover without consistent effect on soil ecosystem functioning46
Peanut–cotton intercropping to enhance soil ecosystem multifunctionality: Roles of microbial keystone taxa, assembly processes, and C-cycling profiles46
Weed suppression and maize yield influenced by cover crop mixture diversity and tillage46
Is green manure a viable substitute for inorganic fertilizer to improve grain yields and advance carbon neutrality in paddy agriculture?46
Grazing exclusion modulates the effects of different components of plant diversity on biomass production in semiarid rangeland46
Management practices and seasonality affect stingless bee colony growth, foraging activity, and pollen diet in coffee agroecosystems46
Mammals in cacao agroforests: Implications of management intensification in two contrasting landscapes45
N2O emissions from soils under short-term straw return in a wheat-corn rotation system are associated with changes in the abundance of functional microbes45
Twenty years of nitrous oxide emissions research in Australian agriculture: A review45
Alfalfa-livestock system promotes the accumulation of soil organic carbon in a semi-arid marginal land45
Irrigation modulates entomopathogenic nematode community and its soil food web in olive groves under different agricultural managements44
Spatial arrangement of intercropping impacts natural enemy abundance and aphid predation in an intensive farming system44
Comparative pollinator conservation potential of coffee agroforestry relative to coffee monoculture and tropical rainforest in the DR Congo43
Cover crops and N fertilization affect soil ammonia volatilization and N2O emission by regulating the soil labile carbon and nitrogen fractions43
Combining organic fertilisation and perennial crops in the rotation enhances arthropod communities43
Fungicide treatments drive changes in the diversity and species richness of tissue-resident bacteria in agrobiont cobweb-weaving and epigeic spiders43
Rodent fertility in commercial orchards in relation to body mass and body condition43
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Fallow replacement cover crops impact soil water and nitrogen dynamics in a semi-arid sub-tropical environment42
Effects of saltwater intrusion on candidate restoration species in coastal agricultural fields42
Impact of plastic mulching and residue return on maize yield and soil organic carbon storage in irrigated dryland areas under climate change42
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Insect excluding mesh enhances Spotted-wing Drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) control in tunneled raspberry with limited effects on natural enemy abundance42
Environmental and biotic filters interact to shape the coexistence of native and introduced bees in northern Patagonian forests41
Benefits and tradeoffs of diversifying rice-based cropping systems: Impacts on soil health, productivity, and agroecosystem multifunctionality40
Can earthworms and root traits improve plant struvite-P uptake? A field mesocosm study40
Woodlands as refuges and resources for paddy spider communities: Varying importance with land consolidation intensity40
Macrocyclic lactone residues in cattle dung result in a sharp decline in the population of dung beetles in the rangelands of northern China40
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To what extent is fennel crop dependent on insect pollination?39
Pinus radiata as a dendro-remediation species against nitrate leaching in the New Zealand primary industrial areas: Current snapshot and prospects39
Invertebrate diversity is shaped by farm management, edge effects and landscape context in the Prairie Pothole Region of Canada39
Effects of landscape structure on abundance and family richness of hymenopteran parasitoids in the olive agroecosystem39
Pollination services to squash insufficient despite abundant specialist bees39
Determining the role of land resource, cropping and management practices in soil organic carbon status of rice-based cropping systems38
The location and vegetation physiognomy of ecological infrastructures determine bat activity in Mediterranean floodplain landscapes38
Dominance of honey bees is negatively associated with wild bee diversity in commercial apple orchards regardless of management practices37
Configurational landscape heterogeneity: Crop-fallow boundaries enhance the taxonomic diversity of carabid beetles and spiders37
Effects of litter removal on grazing excluded grassland: A 5-year test with contrasting exclusion durations and topographic conditions37
Treed field borders net-export over 82,000 more hoverflies per km every week into canola crops than herbaceous field borders, regardless of mass-flowering crop bloom37
Grassland soil carbon dynamics in southern Brazil under different management and edaphoclimatic conditions37
Integrating poultry improves soil health and vegetable yield in organic, cover-cropped system37
Growing and non-growing season nitrous oxide emissions from a manured semiarid cropland soil under irrigation37
Rates of soil organic carbon change in cultivated and afforested sandy soils36
Trees in temperate alley-cropping systems develop deep fine roots 5 years after plantation: What are the consequences on soil resources?36
Optimal nitrogen management increased topsoil organic carbon stock and maintained whole soil inorganic carbon stock to increase soil carbon stock—A 15-year field evidence36
Changes rather than absolute contents of soil nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and calcium are responsible for soil-profile acidification in apple production systems36
Partitioning eddy covariance CO2 fluxes into ecosystem respiration and gross primary productivity through a new hybrid four sub-deep neural network35
Re-introducing mixed grazing benefits soil health in a passive restored grassland: Evidence from soil nematode functional status35
The enhancing effect of intercropping sugar beet with chicory on the deep root growth and nutrient uptake35
Intercropping and pollination mediate faba bean (Vicia faba ) yield and nodulation35
Managed and wild bees contribute to alfalfa (Medicago sativa) pollination35
Land-use changes alter the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community composition and assembly in the ancient tea forest reserve35
From small waterbodies to large multi-service providers: Assessing their ecological multifunctionality for terrestrial birds in Mediterranean agroecosystems35
Agricultural management intensity determines the strength of weed seed predation35
Different grazers and grazing practices alter the growth, soil properties, and rhizosphere soil bacterial communities of Medicago ruthenica in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau grassland35
Response of soil fungal species, phylogenetic and functional diversity to diurnal asymmetric warming in an alpine agricultural ecosystem34
Highly diverse flower strips promote natural enemies more in annual field crops: A review and meta-analysis34
Perennial woodlands benefit parasitoid diversity, but annual flowering fallows enhance parasitism of wheat aphids in an agricultural landscape34
Influence of long-term inorganic fertilization and straw incorporation on soil organic carbon: Roles of enzyme activity, labile organic carbon fractions, soil aggregates, and microbial traits34
Historical and future dynamics of cropland soil organic carbon stocks in an intensive human-impacted area of southeastern China34
Vegetation restoration changed the soil aggregate stability and aggregate carbon stabilization pathway according to δ13C signatures34
Replacing urea-N with Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus L.) mitigates CH4 and N2O emissions in rice paddy34
Rubber leaf fall phenomenon linked to increased temperature34
In-situ retention of vegetable residues combined with calcium cyanamide or microbial consortium enhances overall soil quality and cucumber productivity in a long-term monoculture system34
Patterns and determinants of nitrification and denitrification potentials across 24 rice paddy soils in subtropical China34
Enhancing the ecological services of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau’s grasslands through sustainable restoration and management in era of global change34
Subsurface placement of controlled-release blended fertilizers mitigates ammonia volatilization by promoting nitrogen transformation in rice fields33
Biochar mitigates greenhouse gas emissions from bulk soil in wheat-corn rotation system by inhibiting biochemical decomposition33
Legume-based crop diversification with optimal nitrogen fertilization benefits subsequent wheat yield and soil quality33
General trends of different inter-row vegetation management affecting vine vigor and grape quality across European vineyards33
Beneficial ‘inefficiencies’ of western ranching: Flood-irrigated hay production sustains wetland systems by mimicking historic hydrologic processes33
Identification of a resource-efficient integrated crop management practice for the rice-wheat rotations in south Asian Indo-Gangetic Plains33
Identifying areas where biodiversity is at risk from potential cocoa expansion in the Congo Basin33
Grazing exclusion-induced alterations of soil microbial biogeographic pattern and co-occurrence network across a Tibetan elevation gradient33
Agricultural cultivation duration affects soil inorganic N turnover and supply capacity: Evidence in subtropical karst regions33
Critical role of native forest and savannah habitats in retaining neotropical pollinator diversity in highly mechanized agricultural landscapes33
The response of grassland productivity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition in northern China33
Soil organic C and N dynamics as affected by 31 years cropping systems and fertilization in highland agroecosystems33
Ungulate herbivores promote contrasting modifications of soil properties and organic carbon stabilization in a grazed grassland versus rewilded woodland environment33
Assessment of greenhouse gases emissions, global warming potential and net ecosystem economic benefits from wheat field with reduced irrigation and nitrogen management in an arid region of China33
Soil carbon stocks and water stable aggregates under annual and perennial biofuel crops in central Ohio33
Effect of cover cropping on soil organic matter characteristics: Insights from a five-year field experiment in Nebraska32
Direct and indirect effects of agricultural expansion and landscape fragmentation processes on natural habitats32
Nutrient and sediment retention by riparian vegetated buffer strips: Impacts of buffer length, vegetation type, and season32
Diversification of an integrated crop-livestock system: Agroecological and food production assessment at farm scale32
Nitrogen and carbon stocks in sandy soil cultivated with corn subjected to 17 years of animal manure and mineral fertilizer application32
Contrasting water quality in response to long-term nitrogen fertilization in rainfed and irrigated apple-producing regions on China’s Loess Plateau32
Effects of winter grazing and N addition on soil phosphorus fractions in an alpine grassland on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau32
Transformation of the agricultural landscape and its influence on small terrestrial mammal communities in South Moravia (Czech Republic, Central Europe)31
Effects of the combined application of livestock manure and plant residues on soil organic carbon sequestration in the southern Loess Plateau of China31
Effect of landscape composition on the invasive pest Halyomorpha halys in fruit orchards31
Phosphorus leaching in high-P soils under maize silage and interseeding cover crop system31
Balanced phosphorus fertilization enhances soil bacterial network complexity to maintain multifunctionality and plant production in dryland agricultural systems31
Rice–fish coculture system enhances paddy soil fertility, bacterial network stability and keystone taxa diversity31
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Exploring the influence of cover crops with native plant species on soil and berry microbiota in a Moscatel Galego vineyard: Implications for sustainable viticulture31
Global effects of livestock grazing on ecosystem functions vary with grazing management and environment31
Cascading effects of landscape, mediated by mesoclimate, on carabid communities and weed seed predation in winter cereals30
A synthesis of the effect of regenerative agriculture on soil carbon sequestration in Southeast Asian croplands30
Ecosystem-scale crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) gas exchange of a sisal (Agave sisalana) plantation30
What follows fallow? Assessing revegetation patterns on abandoned sugarcane land in Hawaiʻi30
The impact of climate and potassium nutrition on crop yields: Insights from a 30-year Swiss long-term fertilization experiment30
Promoting enhanced ecosystem services from cover crops using intra- and interspecific diversity30
Vegetation cover and food availability shapes the foraging activity of rodent pests in and around maize fields30
High losses of farmland birds and potential biocontrol along an urbanization gradient in a tropical megacity30
Earthworms mediate the effect of diversifying crop rotations on soil organic carbon incorporation, soil structure formation and microbial activity30
Grazing legacy mediates the diverse responses of grassland multidimensional stability to resource enrichment30
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Large-scale fence modifications increase nest survival in sage-grouse29
The efficacy of reductive soil disinfestations on disease control is highly dependent on the microbiomes they reconstructed29
The Mesoamerican milpa agroecosystem fosters greater arthropod diversity compared to monocultures29
Grazing alters vegetation phenology by regulating regional environmental factors on the Tibetan Plateau29
The global effects of grazing on grassland soil nitrogen retention29
Diverse agricultural landscapes increase bat activity and diversity: Implications for biological pest control29
Fallow fields and hedgerows mediate enhanced arthropod predation and reduced herbivory on small scale intercropped maize farms – δ13C and δ15N stable isotope evidence29
High importance of organic fertilizer nitrogen applied to temperate grassland for plant nitrogen uptake in the years following fertilization29
Straw incorporation mitigates methane emissions by facilitating the conversion of particulate organic carbon to mineral-associated organic carbon29
Grass-legume mixture optimizes soil new carbon sequestration by leveraging microbial necromass dynamics in a pear orchard29
Landscape-wide floral resource deficit enhances the importance of diverse wildflower plantings for pollinators in farmlands29
Set-aside of grassland field margins enhances buckwheat pollination services in small-holder agricultural landscapes29
Wild bee responses to cropland landscape complexity are temporally-variable and taxon-specific: Evidence from a highly replicated pseudo-experiment29
Divergent responses of ecological functions to long-term herbivore exclusion in the Tibetan mountainous grasslands29
Effect of various methods of mineral fertilizer application on changes in the abundance, composition, and diversity of culturable fungi in a reduced tillage crop rotation system of winter wheat, soybe29
Classification of agricultural land management systems for global modeling of biodiversity and ecosystem services29
Quantifying cover crop-derived above- and belowground carbon inputs including rhizodeposition29
Interactive effects of warming and managements on carbon fluxes in grasslands: A global meta-analysis29
Cover crop-mediated soil carbon storage and soil health in semi-arid irrigated cropping systems28
Prospects for improving productivity and composition of mixed swards in semi-arid environments by separating species in drill rows – A review28
Intensive agriculture influences functional diversity, redundancy and trait profile of bee community and interacting plant community in a tropical agricultural landscape28
Enhanced mitigation of N2O and NO emissions through co-application of biochar with nitrapyrin in an intensive tropical vegetable field28
Wild bees benefit from low urbanization levels and suffer from pesticides in a tropical megacity28
Enhancing soil multifunctionality through restoring erosion environment and microbial functions combined with organic manure and straw mulching28
Combining reduced tillage and green manures minimized N2O emissions from organic cropping systems in a cool humid climate28
Spatial proximity to farmland enhances bat richness and activity in planted forests28
Effect of fertilizer management on the soil bacterial community in agroecosystems across the globe28
Evaluating conservation tools in intensively-used farmland: Higher bird and mammal diversity in seed-rich strips during winter28
Protective nets reduce pollen flow in blueberry orchards27
Effects of a tree row on greenhouse gas fluxes, growing conditions and soil microbial communities on an oat field in Southern Finland27
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Effects of crop type and production method on arable biodiversity in boreal farmland27
Intercrops as foraging habitats for bees: Bees do not prefer sole legume crops over legume-cereal mixtures27
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Soil methane uptake is tightly linked to carbon dioxide emission in global upland ecosystems27
Forage crops boost the productivity and environmental sustainability of dairy farmers in southern Tanzania27
Orchards closer to forest patches produced fewer malformed fruits and more commercial fruits: The importance of legitimate floral visitors27
Ryegrass intercropping with residue incorporation enhances apple yield and reduces nitrogen loss despite minimal water–nitrogen competition on the Loess Plateau, China27
Nitrogen and phosphorus supply controls stability of soil organic carbon in alpine meadow of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau27
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Grassland duration affects soil organic carbon pools only in the topsoil and has limited effects on microbial metabolism27
Response of N2O emissions to N fertilizer reduction combined with biochar application in a rain-fed winter wheat ecosystem27
Nesting material, phenology and landscape complexity influence nesting success and parasite infestation of a trap nesting bee26
Reduced plant water use can explain higher soil moisture in organic compared to conventional farming systems26
The implementation of irrigation leads to declines in farmland birds26
Responses of rice paddy dragonflies to fertilisation in a mesocosm experiment26
Coastal macroalgae aquaculture reduces carbon dioxide emission in a subtropical enclosed bay: Insights from eddy covariance measurements26
Linking stable soil carbon and microbes using rapid fractionation and metagenomics assays – First results screening fungal inoculants under wheat crops26
The effectiveness of soil erosion measures for cropland in the Austrian Agri-environmental Programme: A national approach using local data26
The curse of the past – What can tile drain effluent tell us about arable field management?26
Assessing irrigated water utilization to optimize irrigation schedule in the oasis-desert ecotone of Hexi Corridor of China26
Cover crops enhance resource availability for soil microorganisms in a pecan orchard26
Feeding salicylates containing willow leaves to cattle modulates urea metabolism and mitigates urine-derived ammonia and nitrous oxide emissions from soil26
Are rice fields less diverse and more invaded by non-native species than less impacted habitats? A test with wetland microcrustaceans26
A crop yield-based pollination index reveals the impacts of land cover and pesticide use on realized pollination at a landscape scale26
Intensive citrus plantations suppress the microbial profiles of the β-glucosidase gene26
Pesticide use in vineyards is affected by semi-natural habitats and organic farming share in the landscape26
Targeting yield and reducing nitrous oxide emission by use of single and double inhibitor treated urea during winter wheat season in Northern Germany26
The effects of crop residues and air temperature on variations in interannual ecosystem respiration in a wheat-maize crop rotation in China26
Nitrogen enrichment exacerbates drought impacts on desert shrub steppe plant community26
Cauliflower strip cropping promotes ground-dwelling arthropod richness and spider abundance26
Exclusion of ground-nesting ants promotes biological control, but facilitates the establishment of an exotic canopy-nesting ant species26
Patch-burn management changes grazing behavior of cattle in humid subtropical grasslands25
Plastic film mulching regime altered fungal, but not bacterial community structure at the regional scale25
Intercropping regulates plant- and microbe-derived carbon accumulation by influencing soil physicochemical and microbial physiological properties25
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