Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate

YJ Shin, GF Midgley, ERM Archer, A Arneth… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The two most urgent and interlinked environmental challenges humanity faces are climate
change and biodiversity loss. We are entering a pivotal decade for both the international …

Prospects for Integrating augmentative and conservation biological control of leaffolders and stemborers in rice

D Babendreier, R Tang, FG Horgan - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Possibilities to combine augmentative biological control using Trichogramma spp. egg
parasitoids and conservation biological control through habitat manipulation, for the …

[PDF][PDF] Rice straw incorporation influences nutrient cycling and soil organic matter

P Chivenge, F Rubianes, D Van Chin… - Sustainable rice straw …, 2020 - library.oapen.org
Rice straw incorporation is labor-intensive and influences greenhouse gas emissions but
can increase soil organic carbon (C) and recycle nutrients. Rice straw contains about 80, 40 …

Indigenous farmers' perceptions of problems in the rice field agroecosystems in the upper Baram, Malaysia

A Hollaus, C Schunko, R Weisshaidinger… - Journal of Ethnobiology …, 2022 - Springer
Background Rice field agroecosystems produce food for more than half of the world's
population and deliver important services supporting farmers' livelihoods. However …

Prediction of Bhutan's ecological distribution of rice (Oryza sativa L.) under the impact of climate change through maximum entropy modelling

N Chhogyel, L Kumar, Y Bajgai… - The Journal of …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The current research investigated the present and future projected distribution of rice (Oryza
sativa L.) based on climatic suitability under three representative concentration pathways …

Modelling the potential impacts of climate change on rice cultivation in Mekong Delta, Vietnam

ATN Dang, L Kumar, M Reid - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Rice paddy fields, considered as a human-made wetland ecosystems, play important roles
in food production and ecosystem conservation. Nowadays, rice cultivation in the Mekong …

Multiple environmental benefits of alternate wetting and drying irrigation system with limited yield impact on European rice cultivation: The Ebre Delta case

M Martínez-Eixarch, C Alcaraz, M Guàrdia… - Agricultural Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
The AWD is an irrigation technology for rice cultivation, consisting in implementing alternate
draining and flooded periods over the growing season, that delivers multiple environmental …

Landscape heterogeneity filters functional traits of rice arthropods in tropical agroecosystems

C Dominik, R Seppelt, FG Horgan… - Ecological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biological control services of agroecosystems depend on the functional diversity of species
traits. However, the relationship between arthropod traits and landscape heterogeneity is …