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Food Science & Technology
Thomas Hertel, Ismahane Elouafi, Morakot Tanticharoen, Frank Ewert
Summary: There are multiple options available at the field, farm, household, and market levels to diversify activities and enhance the resilience of food systems to stresses and shocks.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Oana Chenaru, Stefan Mocanu, Radu Dobrescu, Maximilian Nicolae
Summary: This paper is based on the concept of antifragility and aims to design a self-improving manufacturing system. By ensuring antifragility, the system becomes more adaptive and robust, capable of functioning at optimal parameters even under adverse conditions. The paper also introduces the concept of antifragile maintenance, utilizing artificial intelligence techniques for continuous optimization of the manufacturing system.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2022)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Stella D. Juventia, Isabella L. M. Selin Noren, Dirk F. van Apeldoorn, Lenora Ditzler, Walter A. H. Rossing
Summary: Crop diversification has been proposed as a strategy for sustainable agricultural systems. Strip cropping, compared to sole crop, can provide a greater range of ecosystem services and has implementation advantages. However, the lack of spatially-explicit design approaches hinders the systematic exploration and evaluation of strip cropping systems.
AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS
(2022)
Review
Agronomy
Suzanne R. Jacobs, Heidi Webber, Wiebke Niether, Kathrin Grahmann, Dietmar Luettschwager, Carmen Schwartz, Lutz Breuer, Sonoko D. Bellingrath-Kimura
Summary: Alley cropping can improve the microclimate and water balance of croplands and enhance their resilience. Studies have shown that tree rows in alley cropping systems create gradient effects, resulting in reduced light intensity, wind speed, and surface runoff. The effects on air temperature, humidity, and evapotranspiration vary among studies, with a tendency towards decreased daytime temperatures and increased evapotranspiration. Soil moisture shows the highest variation, with temporal and spatial differences within the system. Research on landscape-scale effects is limited, and future studies should explore the role of site context in alley cropping systems.
AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY
(2022)
Review
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Alix Masure, Pierre Martin, Xavier Lacan, Sylvain Rafflegeau
Summary: The present study identifies and describes different types of oil palm agroforestry systems, offering new perspectives for the sustainable development of palm oil production. By combining various crops inside the oil palm plots, these systems provide more diversified planting patterns and associated ecosystem services.
CAHIERS AGRICULTURES
(2022)
Review
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Alix Masure, Pierre Martin, Xavier Lacan, Sylvain Rafflegeau
Summary: Until recently, industrial and smallholder oil palm plantations have been mostly monocrop-based. However, alternative systems have emerged, incorporating various crops within oil palm plots. This study identified 39 worldwide agroforestry systems through literature reviews, NGO websites, and expert surveys. These systems include associations with livestock, traditional African palm and food crop systems, associations with food crops during the juvenile phase of oil palm, systems developed by family farms, and prototype designs developed by research institutions. The study also identified associated ecosystem services and offers new perspectives for sustainable palm oil production.
CAHIERS AGRICULTURES
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Mukesh Kumar, Sabyasachi Mitra, Sonali Paul Mazumdar, Bijan Majumdar, Amit Ranjan Saha, Shiv Ram Singh, Biswajit Pramanick, Ahmed Gaber, Walaa F. Alsanie, Akbar Hossain
Summary: Crop diversity through residue incorporation is essential for sustaining soil health. A field study conducted in Inceptisol of eastern India showed that cropping systems like jute-rice-vegetable pea and jute-rice-mustard-mungbean/green gram can achieve high productivity and sustainability index.
Article
Engineering, Aerospace
Sebastian Rapp, Roland Schmehl
Summary: This paper presents a three-step methodology to improve the resilience of AWE systems to environmental disturbances, including generating upset conditions, building a surrogate model, and designing an avoidance maneuver. The feasibility of the method is demonstrated on the example of tether rupture during pumping cycle operation, along with a novel transition strategy that can significantly reduce the probability of tether rupture.
JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE CONTROL AND DYNAMICS
(2021)
Article
Automation & Control Systems
Giwan Lee, Phayuth Yonrith, Doyeob Yeo, Ayoung Hong
Summary: Detecting crops accurately is a major challenge for harvesting robots, and deep learning methods are commonly used to address this issue. However, these methods require a large quantity of training data, which can be limiting. To improve crop detection performance, this study proposes using RandAugment (RA) to apply geometric, photometric, and partial occlusion transformations. The results show that YOLOv3 with RA achieved the highest accuracy of 76.42 on Tomato datasets, with a 3.47 increase compared to the baseline model without augmentation. RA also improved detection accuracy on other public datasets such as Apple, Kiwi, and Mango.
ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Hannah Jona von Czettritz, Seyed-Ali Hosseini-Yekani, Johannes Schuler, Kurt-Christian Kersebaum, Peter Zander
Summary: This study assesses the effectiveness of adapting crop rotations on arable farms in Brandenburg as a tool to enhance climate resilience. Crop diversification is found to have a high risk reduction effect, while the economic risk reduction effect of irrigation is relatively small. The trade-off between maximum gross margins and minimal losses varies depending on soil and climate conditions. Diversification contributes most to economic resilience in areas with moderate to low agricultural productivity.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Terhi Latvala, Kristiina Regina, Heikki Lehtonen
Summary: The study found that consumers in Finland have a relatively high willingness to pay for the benefits of increased farm and regional scale diversity of cultivation practices and crop rotations, with an average of approximately €228 per household annually. However, 21% of consumers were not willing to pay anything to support more diverse cropping systems.
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Review
Entomology
Mary E. Barbercheck, John Wallace
Summary: This article discusses the interactions between weeds and insects as part of agricultural production systems, exploring how they impact ecosystem services and disservices. Weeds and insects in agricultural ecosystems play a dual role, not only providing negative impacts but also supporting the production and maintenance of other types of ecosystem services.
ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Yawen Huang, Bo Tao, Yanjun Yang, Xiaochen Zhu, Xiaojuan Yang, John H. Grove, Wei Ren
Summary: This study evaluates the long-term effects of no-tillage (NT) on crop yield and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in corn and soybean cropping systems in Kentucky, USA. The results show that NT can reduce soil CO2 and N2O emissions, and the effects are influenced by air temperature and soil clay content.
AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS
(2022)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Seyed M. H. S. Rezvani, Nuno Marques de Almeida, Maria Joao Falcao, Marta Duarte
Summary: This paper introduces an Urban Resilience Evaluation System (URES) with 16 indicators and 75 parameters grouped into five dimensions. It proposes a novel Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) approach to score the resilience of constructed assets. The authors test the applicability of the proposed URES breakdown structure on buildings with different levels of importance.
SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Yujie Liu, Gicele Silva Duarte, Qing Sun, Anna Katarina Gilgen, Raphael Wittwer, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, Nina Buchmann, Valentin H. Klaus
Summary: Litter decomposition in arable systems is impacted by drought, and different cropping systems have little effect on the resistance and resilience of decomposition. Higher quality litter is more susceptible to drought suppression but shows faster recovery compared to lower quality litter. Drought also reduces soil nitrate availability. Overall, drought has a stronger impact on decomposition than cropping systems.
AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Rafael A. Martinez-Feria, Michael J. Castellano, Ranae N. Dietzel, Matt J. Helmers, Matt Liebman, Isaiah Huber, Sotirios V. Archontoulis
AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT
(2018)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Farnaz Kordbacheh, Meghann Jarchow, Lydia English, Matt Liebman
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2019)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Natalie D. Hunt, Jason D. Hill, Matt Liebman
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2019)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
David Weisberger, Virginia Nichols, Matt Liebman
Article
Agronomy
Virginia A. Nichols, Raziel A. Ordonez, Emily E. Wright, Michael J. Castellano, Matt Liebman, Jerry L. Hatfield, Matt Helmers, Sotirios Archontoulis
Article
Agronomy
Matt Liebman, Virginia A. Nichols
Editorial Material
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Linda S. Prokopy, Benjamin M. Gramig, Alisha Bower, Sarah P. Church, Brenna Ellison, Philip W. Gassman, Ken Genskow, Douglas Gucker, Steve G. Hallett, Jason Hill, Natalie Hunt, Kris A. Johnson, Ian Kaplan, J. Paul Kelleher, Hans Kok, Michael Komp, Peter Lammers, Sarah LaRose, Matthew Liebman, Andrew Margenot, David Mulla, Michael J. O'Donnell, Alex W. Peimer, Elizabeth Reaves, Kara Salazar, Chelsea Schelly, Keith Schilling, Silvia Secchi, Aslihan D. Spaulding, David Swenson, Aaron W. Thompson, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad
AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES
(2020)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Hanna J. Poffenbarger, Daniel C. Olk, Cynthia Cambardella, Jordan Kersey, Matt Liebman, Antonio Mallarino, Johan Six, Michael J. Castellano
AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT
(2020)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Muhammad M. Raza, Chris Harding, Matt Liebman, Leonor F. Leandro
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Engineering, Environmental
Natalie D. Hunt, Matt Liebman, Sumil K. Thakrar, Jason D. Hill
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Agronomy
Matt Liebman, Huong T. X. Nguyen, Matthew M. Woods, Natalie D. Hunt, Jason D. Hill
Summary: Adding oat and lucerne phases to a 2-year maize-soyabean rotation can increase weed species diversity in the soil, improve maize and soyabean productivity, maintain total crop energy production, and reduce environmental impacts.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Farnaz Kordbacheh, Matt Liebman, Mary Harris
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Giovanni Tamburini, Riccardo Bommarco, Thomas Cherico Wanger, Claire Kremen, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, Matt Liebman, Sara Hallin
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Agronomy
David A. Weisberger, Mary H. Wiedenhoeft, Margaret A. Smith, Matthew Z. Liebman
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Plant Sciences
L. F. S. Leandro, S. Eggenberger, C. Chen, J. Williams, G. A. Beattie, M. Liebman
