About this Research Topic
The world is currently experiencing increasing pressure on the environment, with soil health and food security rising on the agenda. Conventional agricultural management practices have led to the systems being unable to maintain high productivity and quality under the original input level, worsening soil health, and weakening the ecological function of agricultural soils, especially the ability to adapt to climate change.
Grassland farming uses legumes as well as grasses in agriculture. Grasses and/or grass/legume mixtures are used as feed for livestock and to maintain the health of land resources. Integrating grassland agriculture into a farming system provides a number of important benefits to farmers and society. Benefits of grassland agriculture include reducing soil and water erosion, providing high-quality feed for livestock, securing soil fertility and biodiversity, facilitating soil carbon sequestration, enhance agroecosystem productivity, sustainability, stability, and resistance.
There is an urgent need to optimise the management practices of grassland agroecosystems to secure sustainable agriculture and optimise resource use efficiency through crop rotation, intercropping, organic agriculture, cover crops, and other manners of grassland agroecosystems.
This research topic aims to answer the following questions: can agricultural management be adopted to achieve consistent results on time and space scales? What are the effects of the anthropogenic impacts? How do soil physical, chemical, and biological factors affect the system? Is the system adequate to cope with the impact of climate change? A series of questions are expected to be answered on this topic.
This research topic will accept original research, review, and synthesis-analysis articles that have a focus on the following orientations in the field of grassland agroecosystems:
• Crops or system productivity;
• Nutrient cycling and soil fertility;
• Soil quality and soil health;
• Greenhouse gas mitigation and soil carbon sequestration;
• Prediction of systems sustainability under various climate change scenarios.
Grassland farming uses legumes as well as grasses in agriculture. Grasses and/or grass/legume mixtures are used as feed for livestock and to maintain the health of land resources. Integrating grassland agriculture into a farming system provides a number of important benefits to farmers and society. Benefits of grassland agriculture include reducing soil and water erosion, providing high-quality feed for livestock, securing soil fertility and biodiversity, facilitating soil carbon sequestration, enhance agroecosystem productivity, sustainability, stability, and resistance.
There is an urgent need to optimise the management practices of grassland agroecosystems to secure sustainable agriculture and optimise resource use efficiency through crop rotation, intercropping, organic agriculture, cover crops, and other manners of grassland agroecosystems.
This research topic aims to answer the following questions: can agricultural management be adopted to achieve consistent results on time and space scales? What are the effects of the anthropogenic impacts? How do soil physical, chemical, and biological factors affect the system? Is the system adequate to cope with the impact of climate change? A series of questions are expected to be answered on this topic.
This research topic will accept original research, review, and synthesis-analysis articles that have a focus on the following orientations in the field of grassland agroecosystems:
• Crops or system productivity;
• Nutrient cycling and soil fertility;
• Soil quality and soil health;
• Greenhouse gas mitigation and soil carbon sequestration;
• Prediction of systems sustainability under various climate change scenarios.
Keywords: Cropping systems, Greenhouse gas, Soil health, Soil fertility, Soil Biology, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change
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