A landscape perspective on sustainability of agricultural systems

Can feedstock production for biofuels be sustainable in California?

(2014) Stephen R. Kaffka   CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE

Assessing Environmental Impacts of Short Rotation Coppice (SRC) Expansion: Model Definition and Preliminary Results

(2012) Hans Langeveld et al.   BioEnergy Research

Multimetric spatial optimization of switchgrass plantings across a watershed

(2012) Esther S. Parish et al.   Biofuels Bioproducts & Biorefining-Biofpr

Indicators for assessing socioeconomic sustainability of bioenergy systems: A short list of practical measures

(2012) Virginia H. Dale et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Towards an integrated global framework to assess the impacts of land use and management change on soil carbon: current capability and future vision

(2012) Pete Smith et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effective monitoring of agriculture: a response

(2012) Jeffrey D. Sachs et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING

Enhancing ecosystem services: Designing for multifunctionality

(2012) M. Dosskey et al.   JOURNAL OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION

A Preliminary Assessment of the Local Diversity of Family Farms Change Trajectories Since 1950 in a Pyrenees Mountains Area

(2012) Camille Rueff et al.   JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

Closing yield gaps through nutrient and water management

(2012) Nathaniel D. Mueller et al.   NATURE

Conservation policy in traditional farming landscapes

(2012) Joern Fischer et al.   Conservation Letters

Conservation of Farmland Birds Faces Different Challenges in Western and Central-Eastern Europe

(2011) Piotr Tryjanowski et al.   ACTA ORNITHOLOGICA

Reconciling technical, economic and environmental efficiency of farming systems in vulnerable areas

(2011) Pierre Moreau et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

What place for livestock on a re-greening earth?

(2011) H.H. Janzen   ANIMAL FEED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Taxonomic and functional diversity of farmland bird communities across Europe: effects of biogeography and agricultural intensification

(2011) Irene Guerrero et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

A review of principles for sustainable pest management in rice

(2011) S. Savary et al.   CROP PROTECTION

Interactions among bioenergy feedstock choices, landscape dynamics, and land use

(2011) Virginia H. Dale et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Ecosystem services in agriculture: Determining suitability for provision by collective management

(2011) Heidi R. Stallman   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Indicators to support environmental sustainability of bioenergy systems

(2011) Allen C. McBride et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Implementing and evaluating the effectiveness of a payment scheme for environmental services from agricultural land

(2011) LENA ULBER et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Where are the best opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the food system (including the food chain)?

(2011) Tara Garnett   FOOD POLICY

Mixed effects of organic farming and landscape complexity on farmland biodiversity and biological control potential across Europe

(2011) Camilla Winqvist et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Precision conservation: A geospatial decision support tool for optimizing conservation and profitability in agricultural landscapes

(2011) M. McConnell et al.   JOURNAL OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION

Agricultural landscape change (1937–2002) in three townships in Iowa, USA

(2011) Paul W. Brown et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

The land use–climate change–energy nexus

(2011) Virginia H. Dale et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Solutions for a cultivated planet

(2011) Jonathan A. Foley et al.   NATURE

Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity

(2011) Eric F. Lambin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Can We Feed the World & Sustain the Planet?

(2011) Jonathan A. Foley   SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

Life cycle assessment of high- and low-profitability commodity and deep-bedded niche swine production systems in the Upper Midwestern United States

(2010) N. Pelletier et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Integration of bio-physical and economic models to analyze management intensity and landscape structure effects at farm and landscape level

(2010) Martin Schönhart et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Amino acid needs of lactating dairy cows: Predicting limiting amino acids in contemporary rations fed to high producing dairy cattle in California using metabolic models

(2010) N. Swanepoel et al.   ANIMAL FEED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Untangling the Environmentalist's Paradox: Why Is Human Well-being Increasing as Ecosystem Services Degrade?

(2010) Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Balancing shifting cultivation and forest conservation: lessons from a “sustainable landscape” in southeastern Mexico

(2010) Sarah Paule Dalle et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Bioenergy revisited: Key factors in global potentials of bioenergy

(2010) Veronika Dornburg et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture

(2010) Jules Pretty et al.   International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

Continuing land degradation: Cause-effect in Ethiopia's Central Rift Valley

(2010) D. T. Meshesha et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Tripling crop yields in tropical Africa

(2010) Pedro A. Sánchez   Nature Geoscience

Greenhouse gas mitigation by agricultural intensification

(2010) J. A. Burney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Balancing the economic, social and environmental dimensions of agro-ecosystems: An integrated modeling approach

(2009) Yongping Wei et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Crop Yield Gaps: Their Importance, Magnitudes, and Causes

(2009) David B. Lobell et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

A methodology for enhanced flexibility of integrated assessment in agriculture

(2009) Frank Ewert et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Designing a hedgerow network in a multifunctional agricultural landscape: Balancing trade-offs among ecological quality, landscape character and implementation costs

(2009) Jeroen C.J. Groot et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Adaptive monitoring: a new paradigm for long-term research and monitoring

(2009) David B. Lindenmayer et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Interacting effects of farming practice and landscape context on bumble bees

(2008) Maj Rundlöf et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Towards Standardization of Life-Cycle Metrics for Biofuels: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation and Net Energy Yield

(2008) Adam J. Liska et al.   Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy

Low-Cost Economic and Environmental Performance Assessment of Farm Households Systems: Application to Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems in the Ethiopian Highlands

(2008) M.C. Rufino et al.   JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

Design in science: extending the landscape ecology paradigm

(2008) Joan Iverson Nassauer et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Climate change, biofuels and eco-social impacts in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado

(2008) D. Sawyer   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Agricultural sustainability: concepts, principles and evidence

(2007) J. Pretty   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES