• Closing the global energy and nutrient cycles through application of biogas residue to agricultural land-potential benefits and drawback. (chinaagrisci.com)
  • Healthy Soils, Healthy Waters: Will Soil Health Improvements Mitigate Nutrient Loading to the Great Lakes? (usda.gov)
  • Besides being highly weathered, these soils are acidic, very low in cation exchange capacity (CEC), and inherently low in nutrients [ 1 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Correlation of chemical properties, secondary nutrients and micronutrient anions from the soils of Chakur Tahisil of Latur district, Maharashtra. (arccjournals.com)
  • Barber, S.A. (1995) Soil Nutrient Bioavailability: A Mechanistic Approach. (scirp.org)
  • Effect of soil nutrient content on crop growth and effect of soil phosphorus content and crop management intensity on water pollution with phosporus. (orgprints.org)
  • In this paper, soil nutrient balances at plot level were calculated for 350 farms spread across the high potential highlands of Ethiopia. (wur.nl)
  • The Ethiopian government responds to the on-going, and worsening, soil nutrient depletion by stimulating the use of mineral fertilizers. (wur.nl)
  • Soil Nutrient Status of Smallholder Cassava Farms in Southern Ethiopia. (arccjournals.com)
  • We expect this data can help us better understand agroecosystem functioning, and ideally inform sustainable agricultural management strategies. (utoronto.ca)
  • Another example of this is the hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico, which is a result of nutrient loss from agricultural lands within the Mississippi River Basin ( Gulf Hypoxia Action Plan, 2008 ), and impairs the Gulf region's ability to provide seafood and support tourism. (frontiersin.org)
  • R. Lal , " Agricultural activities and the global carbon cycle " , Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems , vol. 70, pp. 103-116, 2004. (bioenergylists.org)
  • Grass cover crop species such as cereal rye ( Secale cereale L.) can scavenge nutrients such as nitrogen (N) from deeper soil layers, avoiding losses by leaching and releasing them as residues decompose. (unl.edu)
  • The nutrient input flows and output flows were monitored over a period of 3 years (2012-2014) using the monitoring for quality improvement toolbox. (wur.nl)
  • General areas of interest include plant breeding, intercrop interactions, nutrient use efficiency, root physiology, biotic and abiotic stressor resistance, and edaphic selection. (ubc.ca)
  • Farms and wild lands can become agro-ecosystems by designing them to mimic ecosystem form (layered woodland canopy) and functions (water cycles, carbon sequestration, food web dynamics) while enhancing human access to goods (fruit, lumber, water) and services (shade, windbreak, debris composting). (growingformarket.com)
  • Agroecosystems, which are defined spatially as individual crops or farms, occupy approximately 35% of the ice-free land area. (versicolor.ca)
  • Like in many East African countries, nutrient depletion rates are exacerbated in Ethiopia by high erosion rates, biomass and animal manure removal from farm plots and limited application of mineral and organic fertilizers. (wur.nl)
  • Well managed cover crops offer nutrient cycling benefits. (unl.edu)
  • High cation exchange capacity and organic matter content of crude humic substances from compost could be exploited to reduce ammonia loss from urea and to as well improve rice growth and soil chemical properties for efficient nutrients utilization in lowland rice cultivation. (hindawi.com)
  • This reuse of biowaste allowed the recycling of nutrients and improved the level of organic matter. (intechopen.com)
  • In many ecosystems a significant part of the nutrients is stored in the organic rich part of the soil. (uva.nl)
  • PhD thesis 'Nutrient cycling and soil acidification in forest ecosystems in The Netherlands' at the Laboratory of Physical Geography and Soil Science of the University of Amsterdam , 1992. (uva.nl)
  • Assessing the potential of co-composting rose waste as a sustainable waste management strategy: Nutrient availability and disease control. (uva.nl)
  • We intended to test that the increasing duration of paddy management and the increasing frequency of soil redox cycles leave their fingerprint on Fe isotope composition of paddy systems, which could subsequently be. (researchgate.net)
  • This work was highlighted in many news outlets last year and has inspired my research group to investigate how this data can help impact nutrient cycles, respond to climatic conditions, and change over time. (utoronto.ca)
  • As the microbes are very sensitive towards changing environments like climatic changes, they strongly regulate the nutrient availability for plants in these ecosystems. (uva.nl)
  • Response of potato crop to selected nutrients in central and eastern highlands of Kenya. (uni-goettingen.de)
  • Cover crop mixtures can diversify agroecosystems and optimize the characteristics and functions of different species. (unl.edu)
  • Effects of climate and ecosystem disturbances on biogeochemical cycling in a semi-natural terrestrial ecosystem. (naturhistoriskmuseum.dk)
  • Ecosystem goods and services are the benefits humans derive from nature, which include provisioning (e.g., food), regulating (e.g., water purification), cultural (e.g., recreation and spirituality), and supporting services (e.g., soil formation and nutrient cycling) ( MEA, 2005 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Background and aims Paddy management results in frequent redox cycles of the soil and thus changes in the terrestrial iron (Fe) cycle. (researchgate.net)
  • I've also just completed a long-term research program in Ghana this year, where my post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong , designed and gathered data for a study on agrarian information networks and agroecosystem management. (utoronto.ca)
  • My research group has identified how trait-based research can be applied to questions in agroecosystem management. (utoronto.ca)
  • We published a research blueprint last year, providing a framework on how and why to choose species that play complementary roles in agroecosystems to foster resiliency. (utoronto.ca)
  • Emphasis is placed on a systems approach involving the entire vineyard as the basic unit, on the central role of agro-ecosystems, on balanced nutrient cycles, and on the welfare of all species in animal husbandry. (vosselections.com)
  • Soil spatial variability analysis, fertility mapping and soil plant nutrient relations in Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia. (arccjournals.com)
  • A pot experiment was conducted to determine the effects of crude humic substances on rice plant growth, nutrients uptake, nutrients recovery, and soil chemical properties using an acid soil mixed with three rates of crude humic substances (20, 40, and 60 g pot −1 ). (hindawi.com)
  • Standard procedures were used to evaluate rice plant dry matter production, nutrients uptake, nutrients recovery, and soil chemical properties. (hindawi.com)
  • However, the lowest rate of crude humic substances (20 g pot −1 ) significantly improved total dry matter, nutrients uptake, nutrients recovery, and soil nutrients availability compared with crude humic substances (40 and 60 g pot −1 ) and the normal fertilization. (hindawi.com)
  • Nutrient depletion rates increased in time with 13, 3 and 10 kg ha−1 year−1, respectively for N, P and K during the monitoring period. (wur.nl)
  • Representing soil health practice effects on soil properties and nutrient loss in a watershed-scale hydrologic model. (usda.gov)
  • The seminar concerns current aspects and research related to nutrient cycles in agro-ecosystems. (ethz.ch)
  • We hypothesized that alternating drying-wetting cycles affect mucilage's role in rhizosheath development and soil aggregation within the rhizosphere. (researchgate.net)
  • Extensive application of biocides affects the microbial flora, leading to an abrupt decrease in the number and diversity of beneficial microbes that may directly affect the functioning of nutrient cycles. (nih.gov)
  • Students select specific agroecosystems and topical issues for individual and small group study, according to their interests. (versicolor.ca)