A comprehensive assessment of diversified cropping systems on agro-environmental sustainability in three Mediterranean long-term field experiments
| العنوان: | A comprehensive assessment of diversified cropping systems on agro-environmental sustainability in three Mediterranean long-term field experiments |
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| المؤلفون: | Silvia Vanino, Claudia Di Bene, Chiara Piccini, Gianni Fila, Bruno Pennelli, Raúl Zornoza, Virginia Sanchez-Navarro, Jorge Álvaro-Fuentes, Roman Hüppi, Johan Six, Roberta Farina |
| المصدر: | European Journal of Agronomy, 140 |
| بيانات النشر: | Zenodo, 2022. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Crop rotation, Arable crops, Soil Science, Indicators, Fuzzy analysis, Soil quality, Horticulture, Tillage, Plant Science, Agronomy and Crop Science |
| الوصف: | The intensification of agricultural systems has caused a noticeable impact on agro-ecosystem services. Thus, the adoption of more sustainable agricultural practices such as crop diversification and reduction of external inputs represent an alternative strategy to minimize the impacts of intensive agricultural systems to the environment. This study aimed at evaluating the effects of crop rotation, conservation tillage, and low-input strategies on soil quality and farming performance using a set of 7 indicators based on a fuzzy logic approach. Data were collected from three Mediterranean long-term field experiments (LTEs) mostly oriented on cereal-based and vegetables cropping systems, located in Spain and Italy. The selected agro-environmental indicators clearly discriminated both from a geographical point of view and between monoculture and diversification, showing their suitability for the evaluation of diversified cropping systems. Such indicators highlighted that implementing crop diversification and reducing soil disturbance and chemical inputs enhanced soil quality. In this context, the most significant effects of diversified cropping strategies were the increase of crucial variables such as soil organic carbon (SOC), total nitrogen (TN), available phosphorus (Pav), and bulk density (BD) maintaining a stability of yields in all the three LTEs. These results provide strong evidence for the benefits of crop diversification in Mediterranean areas, highlighting that diversification represents a very promising strategy for more sustainable land management. Simple and composite indicators calculated using fuzzy method can be proposed as tool to assess the effects of diversification strategies on cropping systems performance. This approach can be used to define local solutions to help the re-design of cropping system through crop diversification transition across Europe. European Journal of Agronomy, 140 ISSN:1161-0301 ISSN:1873-7331 |
| وصف الملف: | application/application/pdf |
| تدمد: | 1161-0301 1873-7331 |
| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.7014447 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::3fc2bd4cfea3aca24a91d2673f60a71c |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....3fc2bd4cfea3aca24a91d2673f60a71c |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 11610301 18737331 |
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| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.7014447 |