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Using PhenoCams to track crop phenology and explain the effects of different cropping systems on yield

CONTEXT: Crop phenology integrates information of how environmental drivers and management practices affect plant performance and crop yield. However, little is known about the impact of cropping systems (CS) on crop phenology and how this relates to diffe ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

OUR COMMON SOILS: West Lausanne Urbanization as Anthropedogenesis, A Section through the Spaces and Times of Urban Soils

Antoine Vialle

Motivated by ever-increasing soil degradation and artificialization due to past and present urban growth dynamics, the current trend of spatial planning policies at the European and Swiss levels is promoting increased soil protection, by avoiding new devel ...

EPFL2021

Key CCS topics: Worldwide deployment, EOR side-effects and Switzerland’s potential

Jean-André Tony Davy-Guidicelli

This study provides an evaluation of the industrial CO2 management potential thanks to Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS), thanks to an analysis of the current worldwide deployment and near future projections of these technologies. To produce these res ...

2021

Alternative Scenarios for the Development of Oil Palm in the Tropics: Carbon and Nutrients Dynamics

Juan Carlos Quezada Rivera

Expansion of agriculture in forested areas poses significant threats and pressure to ecosystems and potentially the global climate. More specifically, expansion of oil palm (OP) plantations has been found to exert great impact on key ecosystem functions li ...

EPFL2020

Long-term effects of crop succession, soil tillage and climate on wheat yield and soil properties

Mathieu Raymond Santonja

Climate change is increasing crop losses and yield variability with impacts for global food security. In this context, conservation agriculture appears as a potential solution to maintain crop productivity, soil fertility and environmental sustainability. ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Life Cycle Assessment of Dry Parchment Coffee in Two Coffee Crops in Cundinamarca, Colombia

The coffee sector is one of the pillars of the colombian economy. It generates nearly 800 thousand directs jobs at the rural sector and about 1,6 million indirect jobs. Although its social value, the coffee is going over a crisis where it opens a considera ...

Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019

Current developments in soil ecotoxicology and the need for strengthening soil ecotoxicology in Europe: results of a stakeholder workshop

BackgroundSoil is one of our most important resources and fulfills many ecological functions such as storage and filtration of water and nutrients, transformation of chemical compounds and nutrients, biomass production, and carbon storage. Such soil functi ...

SPRINGEROPEN2018

Short-term effects of biochar on grapevine fine root dynamics and arbuscular mycorrhizae production

Application of biochar to the soil is globally recognised as a means to improve soil structure and fertility, increase carbon sequestration, enhance crop production and mitigate climate change. However, although the fine root system is fundamental for plan ...

Elsevier2017

Climate change effects on the stability and chemistry of soil organic carbon pools in a subalpine grassland

Alexandre Buttler, Konstantin Svetlozarov Gavazov, Bjorn Jozef Maria Robroek, Thomas Spiegelberger, Robert Thomas Edmund Mills

Mountain soils stock large quantities of carbon as particulate organic matter that may be highly vulnerable to climate change. To explore potential shifts in soil organic matter (SOM) form and stability under climate change (warming and reduced precipitati ...

Springer2017

Spatial variability of potassium in agricultural soils of the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland

Stéphane Joost, Nicolas Rossier, Guillaume Blanchet, André Schneider

Potassium (K) is a crucial element for plant nutrition and its availability and spatial distribution in agricultural soils is influenced by many agro-environmental factors. In Switzerland, a soil monitoring network (FRIBO) was established in 1987 with 250 ...

Elsevier2017

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