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Moresco GA, Dias JD, Cabrera-Lamanna L, Baladán C, Bizic M, Rodrigues LC, Meerhoff M. Experimental warming promotes phytoplankton species sorting towards cyanobacterial blooms and leads to potential changes in ecosystem functioning. Sci Total Environ 2024; 924:171621. [PMID: 38467252 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2023] [Revised: 03/07/2024] [Accepted: 03/08/2024] [Indexed: 03/13/2024]
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A positive feedback loop where climate warming enhances eutrophication and its manifestations (e.g., cyanobacterial blooms) has been recently highlighted, but its consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning are not fully understood. We conducted a highly replicated indoor experiment with a species-rich subtropical freshwater phytoplankton community. The experiment tested the effects of three constant temperature scenarios (17, 20, and 23 °C) under high-nutrient supply conditions on community composition and proxies of ecosystem functioning, namely resource use efficiency (RUE) and CO2 fluxes. After 32 days, warming reduced species richness and promoted different community trajectories leading to a dominance by green algae in the intermediate temperature and by cyanobacteria in the highest temperature treatments. Warming promoted primary production, with a 10-fold increase in the mean biomass of green algae and cyanobacteria. The maximum RUE occurred under the warmest treatment. All treatments showed net CO2 influx, but the magnitude of influx decreased with warming. We experimentally demonstrated direct effects of warming on phytoplankton species sorting, with negative effects on diversity and direct positive effects on cyanobacteria, which could lead to potential changes in ecosystem functioning. Our results suggest potential positive feedback between the phytoplankton blooms and warming, via lower net CO2 sequestration in cyanobacteria-dominated, warmer systems, and add empirical evidence to the need for decreasing the likelihood of cyanobacterial dominance.
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- Geovani Arnhold Moresco
- Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia de Ambientes Aquáticos Continentais, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil
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- Departament of Oceanography and Limnology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN 59014-002, Brazil
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- Departament of Ecology and Environmental Management, Centro Universitario Regional del Este-Universidad de la República, Maldonado, Uruguay; Department of Ecology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Departament of Ecology and Environmental Management, Centro Universitario Regional del Este-Universidad de la República, Maldonado, Uruguay
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- Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany; Institute of Environmental Technology, Environmental Microbiomics, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia de Ambientes Aquáticos Continentais, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil; Núcleo de Pesquisas em Limnologia, Ictiologia e Aquicultura, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil
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- Departament of Ecology and Environmental Management, Centro Universitario Regional del Este-Universidad de la República, Maldonado, Uruguay; Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany; Department of Ecosciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
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Wang L, Liu J, Bao Z, Ma X, Shen H, Chen J, Xie P. Predictable shifts in diversity and ecosystem function in phytoplankton and zooplankton communities along thermocline stratification intensity continua. Sci Total Environ 2024; 912:168981. [PMID: 38042191 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2023] [Revised: 11/08/2023] [Accepted: 11/27/2023] [Indexed: 12/04/2023]
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Thermocline stratification is a global threat to water quality in drinking water reservoirs, though its underlying mechanisms are not clear. The impacts of thermocline stratification intensity on biodiversity-ecosystem relationships were assessed using phytoplankton and zooplankton indicators from four stages of stratification in Lake Qiandaohu. There were significant differences in biomass, species diversity, and resource use efficiency (RUEpp = phytoplankton biomass/total phosphorus) for phytoplankton between continuous stratification and mixing periods, but only in FDis and RaoQ diversity indices for zooplankton. Phytoplankton species diversity and RUE were higher in the formative and stable periods, while zooplankton species diversity and zooplankton biomass/phytoplankton biomass (RUEzp) were lower. When combining the data from the four periods, a negative linear pattern was found between phytoplankton Simpson's, functional dispersion (FDis), and Rao's Quadratic (RaoQ) diversity indices, and thermocline depth (TD). Only zooplankton FDis and RaoQ diversity indices were significantly positively related to TD. Phytoplankton RUE was significantly negatively related only to its Pielou's evenness (J) diversity, while zooplankton RUE was significantly negatively related to its J, FDis, and RaoQ diversity indices. The results of structural equation models (SEMs) showed that the R2 of RUE for phytoplankton was much higher than that for zooplankton. Thermocline stratification intensity exerted an indirect positive effect on phytoplankton RUE by affecting species diversity but had a negative effect on zooplankton RUE. These findings underscore the negative influence of thermocline stratification resulting in various biodiversity changes in freshwater ecosystems.
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- Li Wang
- Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China; College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China
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- Hangzhou Ecological Environment Monitoring Center of Zhejiang, Hangzhou 31000, China
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- College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China
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- Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China
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- Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China.
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Du Z, Yang L, Zhang D, Cui T, He X, Xiao T, Li H, Xing S, Xie C. Optimizing maize planting density based on soil organic matter to achieve synergistic improvements of yield, economic benefits, and resource use efficiency. Sci Total Environ 2024; 906:167597. [PMID: 37802336 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Revised: 09/24/2023] [Accepted: 10/03/2023] [Indexed: 10/08/2023]
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With the development of the economy, the contradiction between population, resources, and the environment has become more and more prominent. How to make full use of limited cultivated land resources to increase food production while reducing damage to the environment is an important issue facing agricultural production. Maize plays an essential role in ensuring global food security. Furthermore, planting density is a key agronomic factor affecting maize yield. Although soil organic matter (SOM) is an important indicator of soil fertility. Whether there are different agronomic optimal planting densities of maize under varying SOM contents remains unknown. Furthermore, there is limited understanding on whether optimizing maize planting density based on SOM further improves grain yield and resource use efficiency. Therefore, this study investigates the influence of SOM and planting density on maize grain yield. We also determine the relationship between SOM and agronomic optimal planting density (AOPD) and compare the grain yield, economic benefits, and resource use efficiency of sowing under uniform conventional planting density (SUD) versus optimized planting density based on SOM (SOD). The results showed that AOPD and its corresponding yield increased linearly with the increase in SOM. Compared with SUD, the yield of the two experimental sites under SOD increased by 2.3 % and 5.5 %, respectively, and the economic benefits increased by 0.5 % and 4.9 %, respectively. The average energy use efficiency, energy mass productivity, and energy economic productivity of the two experimental sites under SOD were all higher than those of SUD. These results demonstrate that it is theoretically feasible to optimize maize planting density based on the spatial heterogeneity of SOM. SOD is a potentially sustainable maize production method that can fully utilize the resources of cultivated land to increase grain yield and economic benefits.
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- Zhaohui Du
- College of Engineering, The Soil-Machine-Plant Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture of China, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, PR China
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- College of Engineering, The Soil-Machine-Plant Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture of China, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, PR China.
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- College of Engineering, The Soil-Machine-Plant Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture of China, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, PR China
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- College of Engineering, The Soil-Machine-Plant Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture of China, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, PR China
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- College of Engineering, The Soil-Machine-Plant Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture of China, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, PR China
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- College of Engineering, The Soil-Machine-Plant Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture of China, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, PR China
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- College of Engineering, The Soil-Machine-Plant Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture of China, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, PR China
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- College of Engineering, The Soil-Machine-Plant Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture of China, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, PR China
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- College of Engineering, The Soil-Machine-Plant Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture of China, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, PR China
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Jin L, Chen H, Matsuzaki SIS, Shinohara R, Wilkinson DM, Yang J. Tipping points of nitrogen use efficiency in freshwater phytoplankton along trophic state gradient. Water Res 2023; 245:120639. [PMID: 37774538 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.120639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2023] [Revised: 08/27/2023] [Accepted: 09/15/2023] [Indexed: 10/01/2023]
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Eutrophication and harmful algal blooms have severe effects on water quality and biodiversity in lakes and reservoirs. Ecological regime shifts of phytoplankton blooms are generally thought to be driven by the rapidly rising nutrient use efficiency of bloom-forming species over short periods, and often exhibit nonlinear dynamics. Regime shifts of trophic state, eutrophication, stratification, and clear or turbid waters are well-studied topics in aquatic ecology. However, information on the prevalence of regime shifts in relationships between trophic states and phytoplankton resource transfer efficiencies in ecosystems is still lacking. Here, we provided a first insight into regime shifts in nitrogen use efficiency of phytoplankton along the trophic state gradient. We explored the regime shifts of phytoplankton resource use efficiency and detected the tipping points by combining four temporal or spatial datasets from tropical to temperate zones in Asia and Europe. We first observed significant abrupt transitions (abruptness > 1) in phytoplankton nitrogen use efficiency along the trophic state gradient. The tipping point values were lower in subtropical/tropical waterbodies (mesotrophic states; TSIc: around 50) than those in temperate zones (eutrophic states; TSIc: 60-70). The regime shifts significantly reduced the primary production transfer efficiency via zooplankton (from 0.15 ± 0.03 to 0.03 ± 0.01; mean ± standard error) in the aquatic food web. Nitrogen-fixing filamentous cyanobacteria can drive eutrophication under mesotrophic state. Our findings imply that the time-window of opportunity for harmful algae prevention and control in lakes and reservoirs is earlier in subtropical/tropical regions.
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- Lei Jin
- Aquatic EcoHealth Group, Fujian Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecology, Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Aquatic EcoHealth Group, Fujian Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecology, Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
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- National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
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- Aquatic EcoHealth Group, Fujian Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecology, Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China.
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Diao H, Yang J, Hao J, Yan X, Dong K, Wang C. Seasonal precipitation regulates magnitude and direction of the effect of nitrogen addition on net ecosystem CO 2 exchange in saline-alkaline grassland of northern China. Sci Total Environ 2023; 877:162907. [PMID: 36934924 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2022] [Revised: 02/18/2023] [Accepted: 03/12/2023] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Increased nitrogen (N) deposition and altered precipitation regimes have profound effects on carbon (C) flux in semi-arid grasslands. However, the interactive effects between N enrichment and precipitation alterations (both increasing and decreasing) on ecosystem CO2 fluxes and ecosystem resource use efficiency (water use efficiency (WUE) and carbon use efficiency (CUE)) remain unclear, particularly in saline-alkaline grasslands. A four-year (2018-2021) field manipulation experiment was conducted to investigate N enrichment and precipitation alterations (decreased and increased by 50 % of ambient precipitation) and their interactions on ecosystem CO2 fluxes (gross- ecosystem productivity (GEP), ecosystem respiration (ER), and net ecosystem CO2 exchange (NEE)), as well as their underlying regulatory mechanisms under severe salinity stress in northern China. Our results showed that N addition and precipitation alteration alone did not significantly affect the GEP, ER and NEE. While the interaction of N addition and increased precipitation over the four years significantly improved the mean GEP and NEE by 24.9 % and 15.9 %, respectively. The interactive effects of N addition and increased precipitation treatment significantly stimulated the mean value of WUE by 39.1 % compared with control, but had no significant effects on CUE over the four years. Based on the four-year experiment, the magnitude and direction of the effects of N addition on the NEE were related to seasonal precipitation. Nitrogen addition increased the NEE under increased precipitation and decreased it during extreme drought. Soil salinization (pH and base cations) could directly or indirectly affect GEP and NEE via plants productivity, plant communities, as well as ecosystem resource use efficiency (WUE and CUE) based on structural equation model. Our results address lacking investigations of ecosystem C flux in saline-alkaline grasslands, and highlight that precipitation regulates the magnitude and direction of N addition on NEE in saline-alkaline grasslands.
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- Huajie Diao
- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Grassland Ecological Protection and Native Grass Germplasm Innovation, College of Grassland Science, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu 030801, China; Youyu Loess Plateau Grassland Ecosystem National Research Station, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu 030801, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu 030801, China
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- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Grassland Ecological Protection and Native Grass Germplasm Innovation, College of Grassland Science, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu 030801, China; Youyu Loess Plateau Grassland Ecosystem National Research Station, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu 030801, China
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- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Grassland Ecological Protection and Native Grass Germplasm Innovation, College of Grassland Science, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu 030801, China; Youyu Loess Plateau Grassland Ecosystem National Research Station, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu 030801, China
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- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Grassland Ecological Protection and Native Grass Germplasm Innovation, College of Grassland Science, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu 030801, China; Youyu Loess Plateau Grassland Ecosystem National Research Station, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu 030801, China.
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- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Grassland Ecological Protection and Native Grass Germplasm Innovation, College of Grassland Science, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu 030801, China; Youyu Loess Plateau Grassland Ecosystem National Research Station, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu 030801, China.
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Zhang Y, Zhang H, Liu Q, Duan L, Zhou Q. Total nitrogen and community turnover determine phosphorus use efficiency of phytoplankton along nutrient gradients in plateau lakes. J Environ Sci (China) 2023; 124:699-711. [PMID: 36182175 DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2022.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2021] [Revised: 02/02/2022] [Accepted: 02/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Numerous studies support that biodiversity predict most to ecosystem functioning, but whether other factors display a more significant direct impact on ecosystem functioning than biodiversity remains to be studied. We investigated 398 samples of the phytoplankton phosphorus resource use efficiency (RUEP = chlorophyll-a concentration/dissolved phosphate) across two seasons in nine plateau lakes in Yunnan Province, China. We identified the main contributors to phytoplankton RUEP and analyzed their potential influences on RUEP at different lake trophic states. The results showed that total nitrogen (TN) contributed the most to RUEP among the nine lakes, whereas community turnover (measured as community dissimilarity) explained the most to RUEP variation across the two seasons. Moreover, TN also influenced RUEP by affecting biodiversity. Species richness (SR), functional attribute diversity (FAD2), and dendrogram-based functional diversity (FDc) were positively correlated with RUEP in both seasons, while evenness was negatively correlated with RUEP at the end of the rainy season. We also found that the effects of biodiversity and turnover on RUEP depended on the lake trophic states. SR and FAD2 were positively correlated with RUEP in all three trophic states. Evenness showed a negative correlation with RUEP at the eutrophic and oligotrophic levels, but a positive correlation at the mesotrophic level. Turnover had a negative influence on RUEP at the eutrophic level, but a positive influence at the mesotrophic and oligotrophic levels. Overall, our results suggested that multiple factors and nutrient states need to be considered when the ecosystem functioning predictors and the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships are investigated.
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- Yun Zhang
- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China
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- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China.
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- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China
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- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China
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- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China.
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Emran SA, Krupnik TJ, Aravindakshan S, Kumar V, Pittelkow CM. Impact of cropping system diversification on productivity and resource use efficiencies of smallholder farmers in south-central Bangladesh: a multi-criteria analysis. Agron Sustain Dev 2022; 42:78. [PMID: 35945988 PMCID: PMC9355929 DOI: 10.1007/s13593-022-00795-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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UNLABELLED Diversification of smallholder rice-based cropping systems has the potential to increase cropping system intensity and boost food security. However, impacts on resource use efficiencies (e.g., nutrients, energy, and labor) remain poorly understood, highlighting the need to quantify synergies and trade-offs among different sustainability indicators under on-farm conditions. In southern coastal Bangladesh, aman season rice is characterized by low inputs and low productivity. We evaluated the farm-level impacts of cropping system intensification (adding irrigated boro season rice) and diversification (adding chili, groundnut, mungbean, or lathyrus) on seven performance indicators (rice equivalent yield, energy efficiency, partial nitrogen productivity, partial potassium productivity, partial greenhouse gas footprint, benefit-cost ratio, and hired labor energy productivity) based on a comprehensive survey of 501 households. Indicators were combined into a multi-criteria performance index, and their scope for improvement was calculated by comparing an individual farmer's performance to top-performing farmers (highest 20%). Results indicate that the baseline system (single-crop aman season rice) was the least productive, while double cropped systems increased rice equivalent yield 72-217%. Despite gains in productivity, higher cropping intensity reduced resource use efficiencies due to higher inputs of fertilizer and energy, which also increased production costs, particularly for boro season rice. However, trade-offs were smaller for diversified systems including legumes, largely owing to lower N fertilizer inputs. Aman season rice had the highest multi-criteria performance index, followed by systems with mungbean and lathyrus, indicating the latter are promising options to boost food production and profitability without compromising sustainability. Large gaps between individual and top-performing farmers existed for each indicator, suggesting significant scope for improvement. By targeting indicators contributing most to the multi-criteria performance index (partial nitrogen productivity, energy efficiency, hired labor energy productivity), results suggest further sustainability gains can be achieved through future field research studies focused on optimizing management within diversified systems. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13593-022-00795-3.
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- Shah-Al Emran
- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL USA
- Sustainable Impact Platform, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, Laguna Philippines
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- International Maize and Wheat improvement Center (CIMMYT), Sustainable Intensification Program, House 10/B, Road 53, Gulshan-2, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- International Maize and Wheat improvement Center (CIMMYT), Sustainable Intensification Program, House 10/B, Road 53, Gulshan-2, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Arunachal University of Studies (AUS), Knowledge City, NH52, Namsai, Arunachal Pradesh 792103 India
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- Sustainable Impact Platform, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, Laguna Philippines
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- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL USA
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA USA
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Bosire CK, Mtimet N, Enahoro D, Ogutu JO, Krol MS, de Leeuw J, Ndiwa N, Hoekstra AY. Livestock water and land productivity in Kenya and their implications for future resource use. Heliyon 2022; 8:e09006. [PMID: 35284679 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2021] [Revised: 08/30/2021] [Accepted: 02/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Population growth and rising affluence increase the demand for agricultural commodities. Associated growth in production increases dependency on natural resources in countries that attempt to meet part or all of the new demand locally. This study assesses the impact of changing meat and milk production on natural resource use in Kenya under three plausible scenarios of socio-economic development, namely Business-As-Usual (BAU), Sustainable Development (SDP) and Kenya Vision 2030 (V2030) scenarios. The IMPACT model is used to estimate projected cattle, sheep, goats and camel production parameters for meat and milk. The BAU and SDP represent standard scenarios for Kenya of a global economic model, IMPACT, while V2030 incorporates in the model features specific to Kenya's medium-term national development plan. We use calculations of water footprint and land footprint as resource use indicators to quantify the anticipated appropriation of water and land resources for meat and milk production and trade by 2040. Though camel dairy production numbers increase the most by quadrupling between 2005 and 2040, it is cattle dairy production that significantly determined gains in production between the scenarios. Productivity gains under the SDP scenario does not match the investments made thereby leading to only slightly better values for water and land productivity than those achieved under the BAU scenario. Relative to the BAU scenario, improvement in land productivity under the V2030 scenario is the most dramatic for shoat milk production in the arid and semi-arid systems but the least marked for cattle milk production in the humid system. By quantifying water and land productivity across heterogenous production systems, our findings can aid decision-makers in Kenya and other developing countries to understand the implications of strategies aimed at increasing domestic agricultural and livestock production on water and land resources both locally and through trade with other countries.
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Imran MA, Ali A, Culas RJ, Ashfaq M, Baig IA, Nasir S, Hashmi AH. Sustainability and efficiency analysis w.r.t adoption of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in Pakistan: a group-wise comparison of adopters and conventional farmers. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2022; 29:19337-19351. [PMID: 34714476 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-17181-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2020] [Accepted: 10/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Climate change, conventional agricultural management practices, and increasing water scarcity pose a major threat to agricultural production and biodiversity as well as environmental sustainability. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is recognized as an efficient, sustainable, and feasible agricultural system that plays a vital role in addressing the potential impacts of climate change in Pakistan. First-hand information was collected from 450 farm households in 24 villages from Okara, Sahiwal, and Khanewal irrigation divisions, having various wheat-based cropping systems of Pakistan. This includes rice-wheat (RW), maize-wheat (MW), and cotton-wheat (CW) cropping systems in the Lower Bari Doab Canal (LBDC) irrigation system. This study estimated and compared the sustainability and efficiency analysis of CSA and conventional agricultural practices. This study also estimated the impact of water-smart practices of the CSA, technical training, and groundwater quality on agricultural production by using production function and bootstrap truncated regression. The findings of this study revealed that adopters of CSA of the wheat-based cropping systems have higher economic benefits and improved resource use efficiencies compared to the conventional farmers. The findings of the study also revealed the increased efficiency of CSA adopters over other two systems in CW cropping system. The water-smart practices of CSA, access to credit, technical training, use of groundwater of varying quality, and other inputs also showed variations in the agricultural production and resource use efficiency. It has been concluded that farmers can earn more profit, save inputs (such as water), and increase their production by adopting water-smart practices of CSA. Hence, the government and other relevant institutions should devise and implement policies that adequately addressed the importance and enhance the use of water-smart practices of CSA in Punjab and beyond.
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- Muhammad Ali Imran
- Institute of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
- Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, MNS-University of Agriculture, Multan, Pakistan.
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- Institute of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia
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- Institute of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, MNS-University of Agriculture, Multan, Pakistan
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- Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, MNS-University of Agriculture, Multan, Pakistan
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Yu X, Yuan S, Tao X, Huang J, Yang G, Deng Z, Xu L, Zheng C, Peng S. Comparisons between main and ratoon crops in resource use efficiencies, environmental impacts, and economic profits of rice ratooning system in central China. Sci Total Environ 2021; 799:149246. [PMID: 34358744 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2021] [Revised: 07/07/2021] [Accepted: 07/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Rice production in China is constrained by excessive water consumption, labor shortage, large environmental footprint, and low economic profit. Rice ratooning is a promising practice to increase famers' profit with higher resource use efficiency and less environmental impact compared with other rice cropping systems. However, there is limited information on the differences in energy use efficiency, water and labor productivity, environmental footprint, and economic return between main crop (MC) and ratoon crop (RC) in this cropping system. This study was conducted to compare the system performance between the two crops of ratoon rice using on-farm survey data. Average grain yield was 8.40 and 4.55 t ha-1 for MC and RC, respectively. Although RC produced 45.9% lower grain yield, it had 57.3% less total energy input and 71.0% lower total production cost than MC, which resulted in a significantly higher energy use efficiency, net energy ratio, net economic return and benefit-to-cost ratio. Lower total energy input and production cost of RC was mainly attributed to the reduction in fertilizer application and labor input, respectively compared with MC. In addition, both labor and water productivity of RC was significantly higher than those of MC. Furthermore, the global warming potential (GWP) and yield-scaled GWP of RC was 59.3% and 23.4% lower than those of MC, respectively, due to lower agronomic inputs and GHGs emissions. Overall, our results suggested that RC had higher resource use efficiency, better economic performance, and less environment impact compared with MC.
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- Xing Yu
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, MARA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, MARA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, MARA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, MARA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, MARA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, MARA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, MARA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, MARA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, MARA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China.
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Kim D, Lim JH, Chun Y, Nayna OK, Begum MS, Park JH. Phytoplankton nutrient use and CO 2 dynamics responding to long-term changes in riverine N and P availability. Water Res 2021; 203:117510. [PMID: 34375930 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2021] [Revised: 06/21/2021] [Accepted: 07/27/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Long-term trends in riverine nutrient availability have rarely been linked to both phytoplankton composition and functioning. To explore how the changing availability of N and P affects not only phytoplankton abundance and composition but also the resource use efficiency of N, P, and CO2, a 25-year time series of water quality in the lower Han River, Korea, was combined with additional measurements of riverine dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and CO2. Despite persistent eutrophication, recent decreases in P relative to N have been steep in the lowest reach, increasing the annual mean mass ratio of N to P (N/P) from 24 (1994-2015) to 65 (2016-2018). While Chl a and cyanobacterial abundance exhibited overall positive and inverse relationships with P concentrations and N/P, respectively, severe harmful algal blooms (HABs) concurred with short-term increases in P and temperature. Microcystis often dominated HABs at low N/P that usually favors N-fixing cyanobacteria such as Anabaena. In the middle and lower reaches, phytoplanktonic P use efficiency was typically lower at low N/P. V-shaped relationships between N/P and CO2 concentrations, together with longitudinal upward shifts in the inverse relationship between Chl a and CO2, implied that eutrophication-enhanced phytoplankton biomass could turn into a significant source of CO2. after passing a threshold. The combined results suggest that cyanobacterial dominance co-limited by P availability and temperature can lower planktonic P use efficiency, while enhancing riverine CO2 emissions at low N/P ratios.
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- Dohee Kim
- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, South Korea
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, South Korea
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, South Korea
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, South Korea
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, South Korea
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, South Korea.
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Amorim CA, Moura ADN. Ecological impacts of freshwater algal blooms on water quality, plankton biodiversity, structure, and ecosystem functioning. Sci Total Environ 2021; 758:143605. [PMID: 33248793 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2020] [Revised: 10/30/2020] [Accepted: 10/31/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Harmful algal blooms are among the emerging threats to freshwater biodiversity that need to be studied further in the Anthropocene. Here, we studied freshwater plankton communities in ten tropical reservoirs to record the impact of algal blooms, comprising different phytoplankton taxa, on water quality, plankton biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning. We compared water quality parameters (water transparency, mixing depth, pH, electrical conductivity, dissolved inorganic nitrogen, total dissolved phosphorus, total phosphorus, chlorophyll-a, and trophic state), plankton structure (composition and biomass), biodiversity (species richness, diversity, and evenness), and ecosystem functioning (phytoplankton:phosphorus and zooplankton:phytoplankton ratios as a metric of resource use efficiency) through univariate and multivariate analysis of variance, and generalized additive mixed models in five different bloom categories. Most of the bloom events were composed of Cyanobacteria, followed by Dinophyta and Chlorophyta. Mixed blooms were composed of Cyanobacteria plus Bacillariophyta, Chlorophyta, and/or Dinophyta, while non-bloom communities presented phytoplankton biomass below the threshold for bloom development (10 mg L-1, WHO alert level 2). Higher phytoplankton biomasses were recorded during Cyanobacteria blooms (15.87-273.82 mg L-1) followed by Dinophyta blooms (18.86-196.41 mg L-1). An intense deterioration of water quality, including higher pH, eutrophication, stratification, and lower water transparency, was verified during Cyanobacteria and mixed blooms, while Chlorophyta and Dinophyta blooms presented lower pH, eutrophication, stratification, and higher water transparency. All bloom categories significantly impacted phytoplankton and zooplankton structure, changing the composition and dominance patterns. Bloom intensity positively influenced phytoplankton resource use efficiency (R2 = 0.25; p < 0.001), while decreased zooplankton resource acquisition (R2 = 0.51; p < 0.001). Moreover, Cyanobacteria and Chlorophyta blooms negatively impacted zooplankton species richness, while Dinophyta blooms decreased phytoplankton richness. In general, Cyanobacteria blooms presented low water quality and major threats to plankton biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning. Moreover, we demonstrated that biodiversity losses decrease ecosystem functioning, with cascading effects on plankton dynamics.
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- Cihelio Alves Amorim
- Graduate Program in Botany, Department of Biology, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco - UFRPE, Manoel de Medeiros Avenue, Dois Irmãos, CEP 52171-900 Recife, PE, Brazil.
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- Graduate Program in Botany, Department of Biology, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco - UFRPE, Manoel de Medeiros Avenue, Dois Irmãos, CEP 52171-900 Recife, PE, Brazil.
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Yang JR, Yu X, Chen H, Kuo YM, Yang J. Structural and functional variations of phytoplankton communities in the face of multiple disturbances. J Environ Sci (China) 2021; 100:287-297. [PMID: 33279042 DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2020.07.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2020] [Revised: 07/31/2020] [Accepted: 07/31/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The global decline of freshwater biodiversity caused by climate change and human activities are supposed to disrupt ecosystem services related to water quality and alter the structure and function of aquatic communities across space and time, yet the effects of the combination of these factors on plankton community ecosystem has received relatively little attention. This study aimed to explore the impacts of disturbances (e.g. human activity, temperature, precipitation, and water level) on phytoplankton community structure (i.e. community evenness and community composition) and function (i.e. resource use efficiency) in four subtropical reservoirs over 7 years from 2010 to 2016. Our results showed that community turnover (measured as community dissimilarity) was positively related to disturbance frequency, but no significant correlation was found between phytoplankton biodiversity (i.e. evenness) and disturbance frequency. Phytoplankton resource use efficiency (RUE = phytoplankton biomass/ total phosphorus) was increased with a higher frequency of disturbance with an exception of cyanobacteria. The RUE of Cyanobacteria and diatoms showed significantly negative correlations with their community evenness, while the RUE of Chlorophyta exhibited a positive correlation with their community turnover. We suggest that multiple environmental disturbances may play crucial roles in shaping the structure and functioning of plankton communities in subtropical reservoirs, and mechanism of this process can provide key information for freshwater uses, management and conservation.
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- Jun R Yang
- Engineering Research Center of Ecology and Agricultural Use of Wetland (Ministry of Education), College of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, China; Aquatic Ecohealth Group, Fujian Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecology, Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
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- Aquatic Ecohealth Group, Fujian Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecology, Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
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- Aquatic Ecohealth Group, Fujian Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecology, Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
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- School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Aquatic Ecohealth Group, Fujian Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecology, Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China.
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Su W, Ahmad S, Ahmad I, Han Q. Nitrogen fertilization affects maize grain yield through regulating nitrogen uptake, radiation and water use efficiency, photosynthesis and root distribution. PeerJ 2020; 8:e10291. [PMID: 33240631 PMCID: PMC7676353 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2020] [Accepted: 10/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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High external nitrogen (N) inputs can maximize maize yield but can cause a subsequent reduction in N use efficiency (NUE). Thus, it is necessary to identify the minimum effective N fertilizer input that does not affect maize grain yield (GY) and to investigate the photosynthetic and root system consequences of this optimal dose. We conducted a 4-year field experiment from 2014 to 2017 with four N application rates: 300 (N300), 225 (N225), 150 (N150), and 0 Kg ha-1 (N0) in the Northwest of China. GY was assessed by measuring the photosynthetic capacity and root system (root volume, surface area, length density and distribution). Grain yield decreased by -3%, 7.7%, and 21.9% when the N application rates decreased by 25%, 50%, and 100% from 300 Kg ha-1. We found that yield reduction driven by N reduction was primarily due to decreased radiation use efficiency (RUE) and WUE instead of intercepted photosynthetically active radiation and evapotranspiration. In the N225 treatment, GY, WUE, and RUE were not significantly reduced, or in some cases, were greater than those of the N300 treatment. This pattern was also observed with relevant photosynthetic and root attributes (i.e., high net photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance, and root weight, as well as deep root distribution). Our results suggest that application of N at 225 Kg ha-1 can increased yield by improving the RUE, WUE, and NUE in semi-arid regions.
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- Wennan Su
- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Soil and Water Engineering in Arid and Semi-arid Areas, Ministry of Education/Institute of Water Saving Agriculture in Arid Areas of China, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, China.,Key Laboratory of Crop Physio-ecology and Tillage Science in North-western Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture/College of Agronomy, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, China.,College of Agronomy, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Soil and Water Engineering in Arid and Semi-arid Areas, Ministry of Education/Institute of Water Saving Agriculture in Arid Areas of China, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, China.,Key Laboratory of Crop Physio-ecology and Tillage Science in North-western Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture/College of Agronomy, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Soil and Water Engineering in Arid and Semi-arid Areas, Ministry of Education/Institute of Water Saving Agriculture in Arid Areas of China, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, China.,Key Laboratory of Crop Physio-ecology and Tillage Science in North-western Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture/College of Agronomy, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Soil and Water Engineering in Arid and Semi-arid Areas, Ministry of Education/Institute of Water Saving Agriculture in Arid Areas of China, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, China.,Key Laboratory of Crop Physio-ecology and Tillage Science in North-western Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture/College of Agronomy, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, China.,College of Agronomy, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, China
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Cabrerizo MJ, Álvarez-Manzaneda MI, León-Palmero E, Guerrero-Jiménez G, de Senerpont Domis LN, Teurlincx S, González-Olalla JM. Warming and CO 2 effects under oligotrophication on temperate phytoplankton communities. Water Res 2020; 173:115579. [PMID: 32059127 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2020.115579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2019] [Revised: 01/18/2020] [Accepted: 02/01/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Eutrophication, global warming, and rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are the three most prevalent pressures impacting the biosphere. Despite their individual effects are well-known, it remains untested how oligotrophication (i.e. nutrients reduction) can alter the planktonic community responses to warming and elevated CO2 levels. Here, we performed an indoor mesocosm experiment to investigate the warming × CO2 interaction under a nutrient reduction scenario (40%) mediated by an in-lake management strategy (i.e. addition of a commercial solid-phase phosphorus sorbent -Phoslock®) on a natural freshwater plankton community. Biomass production increased under warming × CO2 relative to present-day conditions; however, a Phoslock®-mediated oligotrophication reduced such values by 30-70%. Conversely, the warming × CO2 × oligotrophication interaction stimulated the photosynthesis by 20% compared to ambient nutrient conditions, and matched with higher resource use efficiency (RUE) and nutrient demand. Surprisingly, at a group level, we found that the multi-stressors scenario increased the photosynthesis in eukaryotes by 25%, but greatly impaired in cyanobacteria (ca. -25%). This higher cyanobacterial sensitivity was coupled with a reduced light harvesting efficiency and compensation point. Since Phoslock®-induced oligotrophication unmasked a strong negative warming × CO2 effect on cyanobacteria, it becomes crucial to understand how the interplay between climate change and nutrient abatement actions may alter the, ecosystems functioning. With an integrative understanding of these processes, policy makers will design more appropriate management strategies to improve the ecological status of aquatic ecosystems without compromising their ecological attributes and functioning.
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- Marco J Cabrerizo
- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Campus Fuentenueva, s/n, 18071, Granada, Spain; Centro de Investigación Mariña da Universidade de Vigo (CIM-UVigo), Illa de Toralla s/n, Vigo, 36331, Spain; Department of Ecology and Animal Biology, Faculty of Marine Sciences, University of Vigo, Campus Lagoas Marcosende, Vigo, 36310, Spain.
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- Universitary Institute of Water Research, University of Granada, C/ Ramón y Cajal, P. O. 4, 18071, Granada, Spain.
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- Universitary Institute of Water Research, University of Granada, C/ Ramón y Cajal, P. O. 4, 18071, Granada, Spain.
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- Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Droevendaalsesteeg, 10, 6708 PB, Wageningen, the Netherlands; Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
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- Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Droevendaalsesteeg, 10, 6708 PB, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Campus Fuentenueva, s/n, 18071, Granada, Spain.
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Paczkowska J, Rowe OF, Figueroa D, Andersson A. Drivers of phytoplankton production and community structure in nutrient-poor estuaries receiving terrestrial organic inflow. Mar Environ Res 2019; 151:104778. [PMID: 31488340 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2019.104778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2019] [Revised: 08/16/2019] [Accepted: 08/19/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The influence of nutrient availability and light conditions on phytoplankton size-structure, nutritional strategy and production was studied in a phosphorus-poor estuary in the northern Baltic Sea receiving humic-rich river water. The relative biomass of mixotrophic nanophytoplankton peaked in spring when heterotrophic bacterial production was high, while autotrophic microphytoplankton had their maximum in summer when primary production displayed highest values. Limiting substance (phosphorus) only showed small temporal variations, and the day light was at saturating levels all through the study period. We also investigated if the phytoplankton taxonomic richness influences the production. Structural equation modelling indicated that an increase of the taxonomic richness during the warm summer combined with slightly higher phosphorus concentration lead to increased resource use efficiency, which in turn caused higher phytoplankton biomass and primary production. Our results suggest that climate warming would lead to higher primary production in northerly shallow coastal areas, which are influenced by humic-rich river run-off from un-disturbed terrestrial systems.
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- Joanna Paczkowska
- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden; Umeå Marine Sciences Centre, SE-905 71, Hörnefors, Sweden; Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos CESIMAR-CONICET, Blvd. Brown 2915, U9120ACD, Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden; Umeå Marine Sciences Centre, SE-905 71, Hörnefors, Sweden; Guest researcher: Department of Food and Environmental Sciences, Division of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Viikki Biocenter 1, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Helsinki Commission, HELCOM Secretariat, Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden; Umeå Marine Sciences Centre, SE-905 71, Hörnefors, Sweden; Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, SMHI, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden; Umeå Marine Sciences Centre, SE-905 71, Hörnefors, Sweden.
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Xin Y, Tao F. Optimizing genotype-environment-management interactions to enhance productivity and eco-efficiency for wheat-maize rotation in the North China Plain. Sci Total Environ 2019; 654:480-492. [PMID: 30447587 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2018] [Revised: 11/08/2018] [Accepted: 11/09/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Agricultural production is facing unprecedented challenges to ensure food security by increasing productivity and in the meantime lowering environmental risk, especially in China. To enhance productivity and eco-efficiency of the typical winter wheat-summer maize rotation simultaneously in the North China Plain (NCP), we optimized the Genotype (G) × Environment (E) × Management (M) interactions to propose the optimal agronomic management practices and cultivars for four representative sites, with the Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APSIM) model and detailed field trial data. The results showed that an appropriate delay in sowing date could mitigate climatic negative effects and a proper increase in sowing density could increase yield. The optimal nitrogen application rate could be 180 kg N ha-1 year-1 for maize. For the cropping system, 240 mm of irrigation for wheat and 330-390 kg N ha-1 year-1 of nitrogen application rate (150-210 kg N ha-1 year-1 for wheat and 180 kg N ha-1 year-1 for maize) were suitable to sustain high yield, resource use efficiency, and lower N2O emissions. These recommended levels were, respectively, 40% less than the current irrigation and N application rate commonly used by local farmers. The recommended management practices could increase groundwater recharge while reducing nitrogen leaching and N2O emissions without reducing yield. The maize cultivars with a long growth duration, large grain number and grain-filling rate are desirable. The desirable wheat cultivars are characterized with a medium vernalization sensitivity and high grain filling rate. The present study demonstrated an effective approach to develop sustainable intensification options for producing more with less environmental costs through optimizing G × E × M interactions.
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- Yue Xin
- Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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Smeti E, von Schiller D, Karaouzas I, Laschou S, Vardakas L, Sabater S, Tornés E, Monllor-Alcaraz LS, Guillem-Argiles N, Martinez E, Barceló D, López de Alda M, Kalogianni E, Elosegi A, Skoulikidis N. Multiple stressor effects on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in a Mediterranean temporary river. Sci Total Environ 2019; 647:1179-1187. [PMID: 30180326 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2018] [Revised: 08/07/2018] [Accepted: 08/07/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The hydrological and biological complexity of temporary rivers as well as their importance in providing goods and services is increasingly recognized, as much as it is the vulnerability of the biotic communities in view of climate change and increased anthropogenic pressures. However, the effects of flow intermittency (resulting from both seasonal variations and rising hydrological pressure) and pollution on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning have been overlooked in these ecosystems. We explore the way multiple stressors affect biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, as well as the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (B-EF) relationship in a Mediterranean temporary river. We measured diversity of benthic communities (i.e. diatoms and macroinvertebrates) and related ecosystem processes (i.e. resource use efficiency-RUE and organic matter breakdown-OMB) across a pollution and flow intermittency gradient. Our results showed decreases in macroinvertebrate diversity and the opposite trend in diatom assemblages, whereas ecosystem functioning was negatively affected by both pollution and flow intermittency. The explored B-EF relationships showed contrasting results: RUE decreased with higher diatom diversity, whereas OMB increased with increased macroinvertebrate diversity. The different responses suggest contrasting operating mechanisms, selection effects possibly driving the B-EF relationship in diatoms and complementarity effects driving the B-EF relationship in macroinvertebrates. The understanding of multiple stressor effects on diversity and ecosystem functioning, as well as the B-EF relationship in temporary rivers could provide insights on the risks affecting ecosystem functioning under global change.
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- Evangelia Smeti
- Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), 46.7 km Athens-Sounio Ave., Anavyssos, 19013 Athens, Greece.
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain
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- Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), 46.7 km Athens-Sounio Ave., Anavyssos, 19013 Athens, Greece
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- Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), 46.7 km Athens-Sounio Ave., Anavyssos, 19013 Athens, Greece
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- Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), 46.7 km Athens-Sounio Ave., Anavyssos, 19013 Athens, Greece
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- Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Scientific and Technologic Park of the University of Girona, Girona, Spain; Institute of Aquatic Ecology, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
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- Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Scientific and Technologic Park of the University of Girona, Girona, Spain; Institute of Aquatic Ecology, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
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- Water and Soil Quality Research Group, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), C/ Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- Water and Soil Quality Research Group, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), C/ Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- Water and Soil Quality Research Group, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), C/ Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Scientific and Technologic Park of the University of Girona, Girona, Spain; Water and Soil Quality Research Group, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), C/ Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- Water and Soil Quality Research Group, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), C/ Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), 46.7 km Athens-Sounio Ave., Anavyssos, 19013 Athens, Greece
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain
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- Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), 46.7 km Athens-Sounio Ave., Anavyssos, 19013 Athens, Greece
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Lammerts van Bueren ET, Struik PC, van Eekeren N, Nuijten E. Towards resilience through systems-based plant breeding. A review. Agron Sustain Dev 2018; 38:42. [PMID: 30956692 PMCID: PMC6417397 DOI: 10.1007/s13593-018-0522-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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How the growing world population can feed itself is a crucial, multi-dimensional problem that goes beyond sustainable development. Crop production will be affected by many changes in its climatic, agronomic, economic, and societal contexts. Therefore, breeders are challenged to produce cultivars that strengthen both ecological and societal resilience by striving for six international sustainability targets: food security, safety and quality; food and seed sovereignty; social justice; agrobiodiversity; ecosystem services; and climate robustness. Against this background, we review the state of the art in plant breeding by distinguishing four paradigmatic orientations that currently co-exist: community-based breeding, ecosystem-based breeding, trait-based breeding, and corporate-based breeding, analyzing differences among these orientations. Our main findings are: (1) all four orientations have significant value but none alone will achieve all six sustainability targets; (2) therefore, an overarching approach is needed: "systems-based breeding," an orientation with the potential to synergize the strengths of the ways of thinking in the current paradigmatic orientations; (3) achieving that requires specific knowledge development and integration, a multitude of suitable breeding strategies and tools, and entrepreneurship, but also a change in attitude based on corporate responsibility, circular economy and true-cost accounting, and fair and green policies. We conclude that systems-based breeding can create strong interactions between all system components. While seeds are part of the common good and the basis of agrobiodiversity, a diversity in breeding approaches, based on different entrepreneurial approaches, can also be considered part of the required agrobiodiversity. To enable systems-based breeding to play a major role in creating sustainable agriculture, a shared sense of urgency is needed to realize the required changes in breeding approaches, institutions, regulations and protocols. Based on this concept of systems-based breeding, there are opportunities for breeders to play an active role in the development of an ecologically and societally resilient, sustainable agriculture.
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- Edith T. Lammerts van Bueren
- Louis Bolk Institute, Kosterijland 3-5, 3981 AJ Bunnik, The Netherlands
- Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen UR Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research, P.O. Box 386, 6700 AJ Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Wageningen University and Research, P.O. Box 430, 6700 AK Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Louis Bolk Institute, Kosterijland 3-5, 3981 AJ Bunnik, The Netherlands
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- Louis Bolk Institute, Kosterijland 3-5, 3981 AJ Bunnik, The Netherlands
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Meinen E, Dueck T, Kempkes F, Stanghellini C. Growing fresh food on future space missions: Environmental conditions and crop management. Sci Hortic 2018; 235:270-278. [PMID: 29780200 PMCID: PMC5894456 DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2018.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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This paper deals with vegetable cultivation that could be faced in a space mission. This paper focusses on optimization, light, temperature and the harvesting process, while other factors concerning cultivation in space missions, i.e. gravity, radiation, were not addressed. It describes the work done in preparation of the deployment of a mobile test facility for vegetable production of fresh food at the Neumayer III Antarctic research station. A selection of vegetable crops was grown under varying light and temperature conditions to quantify crop yield response to climate factors that determine resource requirement of the production system. Crops were grown at 21 °C or 25 °C under light treatments varying from 200 to 600 μmol m-2 s-1 and simulated the dusk and dawn light spectrum. Fresh food biomass was harvested as spread harvesting (lettuce), before and after regrowth (herbs) and at the end of cultivation. Lettuce and red mustard responded well to increasing light intensities, by 35-90% with increasing light from 200 to 600 μmol m-2 s-1, while the other crops responded more variably. However, the quality of the leafy greens often deteriorated at higher light intensities. The fruit biomass of both determinate tomato and cucumber increased by 8-15% from 300 to 600 μmol m-2 s-1. With the increase in biomass, the number of tomato fruits also increased, while the number of cucumber fruits decreased, resulting in heavier individual fruits. Increasing the temperature had varied effects on production. While in some cases the production increased, regrowth of herbs often lagged behind in the 25 °C treatment. In terms of fresh food production, the most can be expected from lettuce, cucumber, radish, then tomato, although the 2 fruit vegetables require a considerable amount of crop management. Spread harvesting had a large influence on the amount of harvested biomass per unit area. In particular, yield of the 3 lettuce cultivars and spinach was ca. 400% than single harvesting. Increasing plant density and applying spread harvesting increased fresh food production. This information will be the basis for determining crop growth recipes and management to maximize the amount of fresh food available, in view of the constraints of space and energy requirement of such a production system.
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Tian W, Zhang H, Zhang J, Zhao L, Miao M, Huang H. Biodiversity effects on resource use efficiency and community turnover of plankton in Lake Nansihu, China. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2017; 24:11279-11288. [PMID: 28299569 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-017-8758-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2016] [Accepted: 03/07/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is a central issue in ecology, especially in aquatic ecosystems due to the ecophysiological characteristics of plankton. Recently, ecologists have obtained conflicting conclusions while analyzing the influence of species diversity on plankton resource use efficiency (RUE) and community turnover. In this study, both phytoplankton and zooplankton communities were investigated seasonally from 2011 to 2013 in Lake Nansihu, a meso-eutrophic and recovering lake in China. The effects of phytoplankton diversity on RUE of phytoplankton (RUEPP), zooplankton (RUEZP), and community turnover were analyzed. Results showed that both phytoplankton species richness and evenness were positively correlated with RUEPP. RUEZP had a negative relationship with phytoplankton species richness, but a weak unimodal relationship with phytoplankton evenness. Cyanobacteria community had the opposite influence on RUEPP and RUEZP. Thus, cyanobacteria dominance will benefit RUEPP in eutrophic lakes, but the growth and reproduction of zooplankton are greatly limited. The strong negative relationship between total phosphorus and RUEZP confirmed these results. Phytoplankton community turnover tended to decrease with increasing phytoplankton evenness, which was consistent with most previous studies. The correlation coefficient between phytoplankton species richness and community turnover was negative, but not significant (p > 0.05). Therefore, phytoplankton community turnover was more sensitive to the variation of evenness than species richness. These results will be helpful in understanding the effects of species diversity on ecosystem functioning in aquatic ecosystems.
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- Wang Tian
- Research Center for Engineering Ecology and Nonlinear Science, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, People's Republic of China
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- Research Center for Engineering Ecology and Nonlinear Science, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, People's Republic of China
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- Research Center for Engineering Ecology and Nonlinear Science, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, People's Republic of China
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- College of Life Science, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250014, People's Republic of China
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- Research Center for Engineering Ecology and Nonlinear Science, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, People's Republic of China
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Tanveer M, Anjum SA, Hussain S, Cerdà A, Ashraf U. Relay cropping as a sustainable approach: problems and opportunities for sustainable crop production. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2017; 24:6973-6988. [PMID: 28083744 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-017-8371-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2016] [Accepted: 01/03/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Climate change, soil degradation, and depletion of natural resources are becoming the most prominent challenges for crop productivity and environmental sustainability in modern agriculture. In the scenario of conventional farming system, limited chances are available to cope with these issues. Relay cropping is a method of multiple cropping where one crop is seeded into standing second crop well before harvesting of second crop. Relay cropping may solve a number of conflicts such as inefficient use of available resources, controversies in sowing time, fertilizer application, and soil degradation. Relay cropping is a complex suite of different resource-efficient technologies, which possesses the capability to improve soil quality, to increase net return, to increase land equivalent ratio, and to control the weeds and pest infestation. The current review emphasized relay cropping as a tool for crop diversification and environmental sustainability with special focus on soil. Briefly, benefits, constraints, and opportunities of relay cropping keeping the goals of higher crop productivity and sustainability have also been discussed in this review. The research and knowledge gap in relay cropping was also highlighted in order to guide the further studies in future.
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- Mohsin Tanveer
- School of Land and Food, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia.
- Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
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- Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Soil Erosion and Degradation Research Group, University of València, València, Spain
- Soil Physics and Land Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Crop Science and Technology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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Wu W, Ma B. Integrated nutrient management (INM) for sustaining crop productivity and reducing environmental impact: a review. Sci Total Environ 2015; 512-513:415-427. [PMID: 25644838 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.12.101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2014] [Revised: 12/30/2014] [Accepted: 12/30/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The increasing food demands of a growing human population and the need for an environmentally friendly strategy for sustainable agricultural development require significant attention when addressing the issue of enhancing crop productivity. Here we discuss the role of integrated nutrient management (INM) in resolving these concerns, which has been proposed as a promising strategy for addressing such challenges. INM has multifaceted potential for the improvement of plant performance and resource efficiency while also enabling the protection of the environment and resource quality. This review examines the concepts, objectives, procedures and principles of INM. A comprehensive literature search revealed that INM enhances crop yields by 8-150% compared with conventional practices, increases water-use efficiency, and the economic returns to farmers, while improving grain quality and soil health and sustainability. Model simulation and fate assessment further reveal that reactive nitrogen (N) losses and GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions are reduced substantially under advanced INM practices. Lower inputs of chemical fertilizer and therefore lower human and environmental costs (such as intensity of land use, N use, reactive N losses and GHG emissions) were achieved under advanced INM practices without compromising crop yields. Various approaches and perspectives for further development of INM in the near future are also proposed and discussed. Strong and convincing evidence indicates that INM practice could be an innovative and environmentally friendly strategy for sustainable agriculture worldwide.
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- Wei Wu
- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, PR China; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre (ECORC), Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada.
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- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre (ECORC), Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada.
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Postma JA, Schurr U, Fiorani F. Dynamic root growth and architecture responses to limiting nutrient availability: linking physiological models and experimentation. Biotechnol Adv 2013; 32:53-65. [PMID: 24012600 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2013.08.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2013] [Revised: 08/28/2013] [Accepted: 08/29/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In recent years the study of root phenotypic plasticity in response to sub-optimal environmental factors and the genetic control of these responses have received renewed attention. As a path to increased productivity, in particular for low fertility soils, several applied research projects worldwide target the improvement of crop root traits both in plant breeding and biotechnology contexts. To assist these tasks and address the challenge of optimizing root growth and architecture for enhanced mineral resource use, the development of realistic simulation models is of great importance. We review this research field from a modeling perspective focusing particularly on nutrient acquisition strategies for crop production on low nitrogen and low phosphorous soils. Soil heterogeneity and the dynamics of nutrient availability in the soil pose a challenging environment in which plants have to forage efficiently for nutrients in order to maintain their internal nutrient homeostasis throughout their life cycle. Mathematical models assist in understanding plant growth strategies and associated root phenes that have potential to be tested and introduced in physiological breeding programs. At the same time, we stress that it is necessary to carefully consider model assumptions and development from a whole plant-resource allocation perspective and to introduce or refine modules simulating explicitly root growth and architecture dynamics through ontogeny with reference to key factors that constrain root growth. In this view it is important to understand negative feedbacks such as plant-plant competition. We conclude by briefly touching on available and developing technologies for quantitative root phenotyping from lab to field, from quantification of partial root profiles in the field to 3D reconstruction of whole root systems. Finally, we discuss how these approaches can and should be tightly linked to modeling to explore the root phenome.
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- Johannes A Postma
- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-2: Plant Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Leo Brandt Strasse, 52425 Jülich, Germany.
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- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-2: Plant Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Leo Brandt Strasse, 52425 Jülich, Germany.
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- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-2: Plant Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Leo Brandt Strasse, 52425 Jülich, Germany.
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