Structure and Function in Agroecosystem Design and Management

✍ Scribed by Masae Shiyomi, Hiroshi Koizumi

• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 450
• Series: Advances in Agroecology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Structure and Function in Agroecosystem Design and Management presents an advanced discussion of the need to design agricultural systems that 1) increase reliance on biological interactions in agroecosystems as a means of decreasing dependence on the use of large quantities of agrochemicals and the consumption of fossil fuel energy and 2) continue to produce optimal crop yields. Written by international experts, this book discusses biological interactions, matter circulation, and disturbance operating within the agroecosystems in question. The book covers matter cycling and focuses on reducing practices that require the consumption of large quantities of agrochemicals and fossil fuels. The editors then explore the effects of environmental changes and how they will change the management of the next generation of agroecosystems.Is it possible to replace current technologies based on fossil energy with proper interactions operating between crops, livestock, and other organisms to enhance production? If the answer is yes, then modern agriculture can be transformed into an integrated system in which the use of complex biotic interactions is the key technology. Structure and Function in Agroecosystem Design and Management focuses on how can work when designed according to sound ecological practices, and provides the foundation to manage them in an ecologically efficient manner.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface......Page 6
Editors......Page 8
Contents......Page 14
1. Introduction......Page 16
2. Biodiversity in Agroecosystems and Bioindicators of Environmental Health......Page 26
3. Species Diversity in Grasslands......Page 60
4. Ecological Management of Crop-Weed Interactions......Page 76
5. Utilization of Biological Interactions and Matter Cycling in Agriculture......Page 110
6. Biological Interaction in Tropical Grassland Ecosystems......Page 128
7. Agroecology of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Activity......Page 160
8. Species Structure and Abundance of Invertebrate Natural Enemies in Sustainable Agroecosystems......Page 182
9. Plant Diseases and Plant Ecology......Page 198
10. Carbon Cycling in Croplands......Page 222
11. Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Temperate Zone Arable Lands......Page 242
12. Impact of Grazing on the Ecosystems......Page 268
13. Environmental Fate of Pesticides......Page 290
14. The Effect of Elevated Atmospheric CO2 on Grazed Grasslands......Page 312
15. Impact of Grazing on Soil Properties in Steppe Ecosystems......Page 330
16. Changing Soil Biological Health in Agroecosystems......Page 350
17. Nitrogen Cycle and Agriculture......Page 366
18. Growth and Yield of Paddy Rice Under Free-air CO2 Enrichment......Page 386
19. Effects of Climatic Change in Finland on Growth and Yield Formation of Wheat and Meadow Fescue......Page 412
Index......Page 434

✦ Subjects

Экологические дисциплины;Экология почв и агроэкология;