Sustainable agro-ecosystems

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Soil - the foundations of sustainable agro-ecosystems
How do we perceive soil,
The universe 137 013 billion year...,
Soil is a major reservoir of micr...
34  cards
Ecosystems vs Agriculture
Agriculture food and deforestatio...,
Top 10 mitigation pathways for na...,
The services provided to us by ec...
25  cards
Nutrient demand, storage, cycling
Monocultures vs mixtures of plant...,
Spatio temporal effects of monocu...,
Increasing the diversity of crops...
23  cards
Tillage in agro-ecosystem management
Soil provides plants with support...,
Soil is a 3 phase system,
Approximately half of the volume ...
28  cards
Soil acidity and management
One of the most important soil pr...,
Most of the areas on earth that a...,
High rainfall increases soil acid...
21  cards
Soil Organic Matter
The largest and fastest pathway o...,
Change in land use management can...,
The belowground biomass and soil ...
23  cards
Pedogenesis
Soil genesis pedogenesisfactors o...,
High rainfall increases soil acid...,
There are 12 soil orders
27  cards
Nitrogen cycling, fertilizer and pollution
Nitrogentypically 1 5 of shoot dr...,
Fundamental relationship between ...,
Nitrogen n
29  cards
Benefits to crop production from mycorrhiza
Mycorrhizal fungi absorb nutrient...,
Hyphal lengths typically 10 100x ...,
Arbuscular mycorrhizavery importa...
27  cards
Sustainable forestry in a changing world
37 of habitable land is forest,
Carbon dense forests are in the t...,
Bastin et al 2019
24  cards
Efficient nutrient use - lessons from roots
480 million metric tons of milled...,
Rice paddy fields are highly prod...,
Populations of low income countri...
23  cards
Sustainable Agriculture - Philosophy and approaches
What is sustainable agriculture,
Can we feed the world without des...,
How to reduce the amount of land ...
27  cards
The components of agricultural sustainablity
The components of agricultural su...,
Fossil fuel use is driving climat...,
Decreasing numbers and effectiven...
30  cards
People and Planet
Sustainability may be defined as ...,
People the further we look back t...,
There is an 80 probability that t...
30  cards
Phosphorus
Phospholipid cell membranenucleic...,
Phosphorus nutritionoverall howev...,
Running out of phosphorus is natu...
21  cards
The Challenges
The millennium ecosystem assessme...,
The millennium ecosystem assessme...,
Need to provide financial rewards...
34  cards
Assessment
Science to guide policy and susta...,
Learning outcomes,
Learning outcomes
14  cards
Past exam questions
Aps346 sustainable agro ecosystem...,
Aps 346 sustainable agro ecosyste...,
Aps346 sustainable agro ecosystem...
3  cards
Reading to do
Http eceuropaeu eurostat statisti...,
There was not enough time to incl...,
Made bookmarks
3  cards
Must Reads for Leake
The 2019 ipcc special report on c...
1  cards

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