Conservation agriculture and ecosystem services: An overview

C Palm, H Blanco-Canqui, F DeClerck, L Gatere… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2014 - Elsevier
Conservation agriculture (CA) changes soil properties and processes compared to
conventional agriculture. These changes can, in turn, affect the delivery of ecosystem …

Tillage management impacts on soil compaction, erosion and crop yield in Stagnosols (Croatia)

I Bogunovic, P Pereira, I Kisic, K Sajko, M Sraka - Catena, 2018 - Elsevier
The sustainability of agroecosystems is closely related to successful soil conservation.
Sustainable land use practices are crucial to reduce the impacts of agriculture on land …

Conservation agriculture, improving soil quality for sustainable production systems

N Verhulst, B Govaerts, E Verachtert… - Advances in soil …, 2010 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Human efforts to produce ever-greater amounts of food leave their mark on our environment.
Persistent use of conventional farming practices based on extensive tillage, especially when …

Effects of plastic film mulch and tillage on maize productivity and soil parameters

CA Liu, SL **, LM Zhou, Y Jia, FM Li, YC ** on soil temperature, soil moisture and wheat yield on the Loess Plateau of China
S Zhang, L Lövdahl, H Grip, Y Tong, X Yang… - Soil and Tillage …, 2009 - Elsevier
Soil management can notably influence crop production under dryland farming in semiarid
areas. Field experiments were conducted, from October 2001 to September 2004, with an …

Typologies of crop-drought vulnerability: an empirical analysis of the socio-economic factors that influence the sensitivity and resilience to drought of three major food …

E Simelton, EDG Fraser, M Termansen… - … Science & Policy, 2009 - Elsevier
Why is it that sometimes small droughts trigger serious crop losses while in other cases even
large droughts do not have such a major effect? In this paper, we identify socio-economic …

Trend of estimated actual evapotranspiration over China during 1960–2002

G Gao, D Chen, C Xu, E Simelton - Journal of Geophysical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, the water balance methodology introduced by Thornthwaite and Mather (1955)
is modified to estimate monthly actual evapotranspiration for 686 stations over China during …

Determination of groundwater recharge mechanism in the deep loessial unsaturated zone by environmental tracers

Z Li, X Chen, W Liu, B Si - Science of the Total Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Studying the groundwater recharge mechanism in regions with thick unsaturated zone can
greatly improve our understanding of hydrological processes since these regions have …

Soil water content, maize yield and its stability as affected by tillage and crop residue management in rainfed semi-arid highlands

N Verhulst, V Nelissen, N Jespers, H Haven, KD Sayre… - Plant and soil, 2011 - Springer
Rainfed crop management systems need to be optimized to provide more resilient options to
cope with projected climatic scenarios forecasting a decrease in mean precipitation and …