BACKGROUND Biodiversity is under siege, with greatly enhanced rates of local and global
extinction and the decline of once-abundant species. Current rates of human-induced …

Precision farming enables agricultural management decisions to be tailored spatially and
temporally. Site-specific sensing, sampling, and managing allow farmers to treat a field as a …

Soil health is defined as the capacity of soil to function, within ecosystem boundaries, to
sustain crop and animal productivities, maintain or enhance environmental sustainability …

Limiting climate warming to< 2° C requires increased mitigation efforts, including land
stewardship, whose potential in the United States is poorly understood. We quantified the …

Loss of biodiversity and degradation of ecosystem services from agricultural lands remain
important challenges in the United States despite decades of spending on natural resource …

Marginal land has received wide attention for its potential to produce bioenergy feedstocks
while minimizing diversion of productive agricultural land from food crop production …

How do we redesign agricultural landscapes to maintain their productivity and profitability,
while promoting rather than eradicating biodiversity, and regenerating rather than …

Abstract We used the Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APSIM) to predict and
explain maize and soybean yields, phenology, and soil water and nitrogen (N) dynamics …

The eastern migratory population of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus plexippus) has
declined by> 80% within the last two decades. One possible cause of this decline is the loss …

Core Ideas Dedicated bioenergy crops can enhance ecosystem services in marginal lands.
Ecosystem services vary with the type of marginal land. More field data are needed about …