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Manuel López-Vicente and Gao-Lin Wu
This special issue includes six articles that cover a variety of issues about the topic of soil and water conservation in agricultural systems, including the following: a bibliometric analysis of soil and water conservation in the Loess Region of China; ...
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Qian Shi, Wayne R. Simpson, Yuling Li, Chengti Xu, Kejia De and Xiuzhang Li
Elymus dahucirus is an essential plant for ecological restoration in fragile ecological areas and mining area restoration. As lawn grass, it can quickly cover soil and prevent soil erosion, so it is commonly used as a pioneer grass for lawn greening and ...
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Guillermo Aguilera Nuñez, Anders Glimskär, Giulia Zacchello, Richard M. Francksen, Mark J. Whittingham and Matthew Hiron
Permanent grasslands cover more than a third of European agricultural land and are important for a number of ecosystem services. Permanent grasslands used for agriculture are broadly separated into agriculturally improved and semi-natural grasslands. Hig...
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Bohan Zeng, Jiajia Yu, Muhua Liu, Junan Liu, Guodong Yu, Zhaopeng Liu, Liping Xiao, Xiao Wang, Zhaowen Mo and Xiongfei Chen
Direct-seeded rice (Oryza sativa) (DSR) is gaining increasing acceptance worldwide because it saves both time and labor. A covering treatment is a simple method to improve early plant growth under direct-seeding conditions. Herein, field experiments were...
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Robert P. Larkin
The impacts of two different cover crop (CC) strategies, as well as compost, silicon (Si), and biocontrol (BC) soil amendments were evaluated on soil chemical and biological properties, crop development and yield, and disease and pest issues in organic v...
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Mengmeng Du, Minzan Li, Noboru Noguchi, Jiangtao Ji and Mengchao (George) Ye
FVC (fractional vegetation cover) is highly correlated with wheat plant density in the reviving period, which is an important indicator for conducting variable-rate nitrogenous topdressing. In this study, with the objective of improving inversion accurac...
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Agnieszka Czajka, Oimahmad Rahmonov and Bartlomiej Szypula
River channels are regulated in various ways and the fertile soils of valleys are occupied for agricultural purposes, accompanied by human settlements. In many places on the floodplains, gravel or sand is mined and former pits fill with water. The conseq...
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Hossein Ghoveisi, Davie Mayeso Kadyampakeni, Jawwad Qureshi and Lauren Diepenbrock
A precise estimation of plant water use is crucial for efficient irrigation management and understanding of plant?water interactions. Metalized-polyethylene mulch as a ground cover, combined with irrigation management, can improve water and fertilizer us...
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Martina Ghidoli, Michele Pesenti, Federico Colombo, Fabio Francesco Nocito, Roberto Pilu and Fabrizio Araniti
The ability of plants to release chemicals that affect the growth of other plants offers potential benefits for weed management and sustainable agriculture. This review explores the use of Camelina sativa as a promising cover crop with weed control poten...
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Jing Wang, Zhen Wang, Jianqing Yang, Zhongwu Wang, Zhiguo Li and Mengli Zhao
To examine the effect of litter on ANPP and species composition (using ground cover) in a Desert Steppe community by removing or adding litter, during plant dormancy, in a single event in either fall or spring. Litter was removed or added in three intens...
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