Agricultural management practices can produce changes in soil microbial populations
whose functions are crucial to crop production and may be detectable using high-throughput …

Sustainable agriculture requires nutrient management options that lead to a profitable crop
yield with relatively low nitrogen (N) losses to the environment. We studied whether the …

How farming systems supply sufficient nitrogen (N) for high yields but with reduced N losses
is a central challenge for reducing the tradeoffs often associated with N cycling in …

Domestication took plants from natural environments to agro‐ecosystems, where resources
are generally plentiful and plant life is better buffered against environmental risks such as …

Root exploitation of soil heterogeneity and microbially mediated rhizosphere nutrient
transformations play critical roles in plant resource uptake. However, how these processes …

Diversity in crop rotations regulates the ecologic processes active in maintaining and
improving agricultural productivity in a changing climate. This review explores how rotation …

Background and aims Roots in agroecosystems encounter spatially and temporally
heterogeneous nitrogen (N) availability in soil. Understanding root physiological processes …

Abstract Smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are not only dealing with
decreased production from land degradation, but are also impacted heavily by climate …

Conventional solutions to ecosystem loss are far too small to make a meaningful difference.
The large-scale restoration of damaged ecosystems is essential if the climate is to be …

Perennial cover crops, also known as living mulches, have the capacity to improve soil
quality, yet their effects on nitrogen (N) cycling and provisioning in organic systems are not …