Perspectives for agroecosystem management : balancing environmental and socio-economic demands / edited by P. Schroder, J. Pfadenhauer, J.C. Munch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schroder, P.

Pfadenhauer, J.

Munch, J. C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable agriculture.

Agricultural ecology.

Farm management.

Forschungsverbund Agrarökosysteme München.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Elsevier, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sustainable agriculture is a key concept for scientists, researchers, and agricultural engineers alike. This book focuses on the FAM- project (FAM Munich Research Network on Agroecosystems) of the 1990's as a means to assessing, forecasting, and evaluating changes in the agroecosystems that are necessary for agricultural sustainability. The management of two separate management systems: an organic and an integrated farming system are described to provide an interdisciplinary approach Changes of matter fluxes in soils, changes of trace gas fluxes from soils, precision farming in a small scale

Contents:

Front cover; Perspectives for Agroecosystem Management; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Part I Approaching Sustainable Agriculture; Chapter 1.1 Outline of the Scheyern Project; 1.1.1 Background; 1.1.2 Research station and project phases; 1.1.3 Two farming systems; Chapter 1.2 Sustainable Land Use by Organic and Integrated Farming Systems; 1.2.1 Organic farming system in Scheyern; 1.2.2 Integrated farming system in Scheyern; 1.2.3 Discussion; Part II Management of Heterogeneous Systems

Chapter 2.1 Effects of the Management System on N-, C-, P- and K-fluxes from FAM Soils 2.1.1 Introduction; 2.1.2 Materials and methods; 2.1.3 Results; 2.1.4 Conclusions; Chapter 2.2 Main Driving Variables and Effect of Soil Management on Climate or Ecosystem-Relevant Trace Gas Fluxes from Fields of the FAM; 2.2.1 Production and consumption of the climate-relevant trace gases nitrous oxide and methane in soils; 2.2.2 Important controlling factors for N2O fluxes at the FAM sites; 2.2.3 Important controlling factors for CH4 fluxes at the FAM sites

2.2.4 Ammonia emissions from agricultural land use Chapter 2.3 Precision Farming - Adaptation of Land Use Management to Small Scale Heterogeneity; 2.3.1 Basics and objective; 2.3.2 Development of methods to characterise spatial variability of soils, crops, and yield; 2.3.3 Development of site-specific crop production strategies; 2.3.4 Conclusions; Part III Influence of Land Use Changes on the Biotic Environment; Chapter 3.1 Effects of Land Use Changes on the Plant Species Diversity in Agricultural Ecosystems; 3.1.1 Introduction; 3.1.2 Land use systems practised in the research area

3.1.3 Vegetation analysis 3.1.4 Results; 3.1.5 Discussion; 3.1.6 Conclusions; Chapter 3.2 Long-Term Effects of Reduced Tillage on the Populations of Arable Weeds; 3.2.1 Introduction; 3.2.2 Research area and management; 3.2.3 Materials and methods; 3.2.4 Results and discussion; 3.2.5 Conclusions; Chapter 3.3 Dispersal Strategies: Are They Responsible for Species Success in Arable Ecosystems?; 3.3.1 Introduction; 3.3.2 Specific ways of dispersal in arable ecosystems; 3.3.3 Dispersal by human activity - a dispersal strategy or a random process?; 3.3.4 Dispersal opportunity and species success

3.3.5 Cirsium arvense and Veronica triphyllos - a successful and a stagnant species 3.3.6 Conclusions; Chapter 3.4 Soil Microbial Communities and Related Functions; 3.4.1 Introduction; 3.4.2 Materials and methods; 3.4.3 Singular environmental and anthropogenic effects; 3.4.4 Effect of land use and farming systems; 3.4.5 Precision farming: site-specific fertilisation; Chapter 3.5 Mesofauna; 3.5.1 Introduction; 3.5.2 Occurrence and distribution of mesofauna; 3.5.3 Indicator value; 3.5.4 Collembola and their influence on microbial diversity; 3.5.5 Perspective

Chapter 3.6 Spiders (Araneae) in Arable Land: Species Community, Influence of Land Use on Diversity, and Biocontrol Significance

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-11214-3

9786611112141

0-08-055639-6

OCLC:

228147893