The olive grove agroecosystem (Olea europaea L., Oleaceae) is very important in terms of economy and culture throughout the Mediterranean region. In Trás-os-Montes (Portugal), groves are commonly surrounded by semi-natural areas consisting shrublands. Understanding role potential predators pests crucial to enhancing biological control sustainable agriculture. This study aimed investigate commun...

Carper, J. M., M. R. Alizadeh, F. Adamowski, A. Inam, and Malard. 2021. Quantifying the transient shock response of dynamic agroecosystem variables for improved socio-environmental resilience. Ecology Society 26(2):17. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12354-260217

We examined the density, diversity, and seasonal fluctuation of soil inhabiting Collembola in different ecosystems: agricultural, rangeland, forest ecosystems North Khorasan province Iran from June 2018 to May 2019. The sampling program was conducted monthly on three sites. Density measured number individuals per square meter. Species diversity calculated using Shannon?Wiener index, Simpson?s s...

Interest in the use of biochar in agriculture has increased exponentially during the past decade. Biochar, when applied to soils is reported to enhance soil carbon sequestration and provide other soil productivity benefits such as reduction of bulk density, enhancement of water-holding capacity and nutrient retention, stabilization of soil organic matter, improvement of microbial activities, an...

AgroEcoSystem-Watershed (AgES-W) is a modular, Java-based spatially distributed model which implements hydrologic/water quality (H/WQ) simulation components under the Object Modeling System (OMS3) environmental modeling framework. AgES-W has recently been enhanced with the addition of nitrogen (N) and sediment modeling components refactored from various agroecosystem models including SWAT, WEPP...

Predicting impacts of climate change or alternative management on both food production and environment safety in agroecosystems is drawing great attention in the scientific community. Most of the existing agroecosystem models emphasize either crop growth or soil processes. This paper reports the latest development of an agroecosystem model (Crop-DNDC) by integrating detailed crop growth algorit...

Agroecosystems are influenced by climate variability, which puts their productivity at risk. However, they tend to maintain a functional state through resilience. The literature presents several methods for assessing general resilience, but specific resilience there very few methods. An index is proposed that assesses the of agroecosystems based on approaches and indicators consider interrelati...

The agroecosystem without external energy supply can provide compensation for the needs of in liquid fuel, heat and electricity at expense plant biomass as a renewable source. Based on analysis balance agroecosystem, area under rapeseed needed biodiesel production crops bioethanol were calculated well additional quantities straw to compensate loss humus crop rotation, which sets amount that be ...

Leaf Area Index (LAI) is a key variable that bridges remote sensing observations to the quantification of agroecosystem processes. In this study, we assessed the universality of the relationships between crop LAI and remotely sensed Vegetation Indices (VIs). We first compiled a global dataset of 1459 in situ quality-controlled crop LAI measurements and collected Landsat satellite images to deri...