Agroecology promises a third way between common global agriculture tradeoffs such as
food production and nature conservation, environmental sustainability and ecosystem …

Limiting climate warming to< 2° C requires increased mitigation efforts, including land
stewardship, whose potential in the United States is poorly understood. We quantified the …

Western European agriculture is largely defined by the high level of productivity of its cereal
grain production. Such productivity is largely a result of farm specialization and …

Loss of biodiversity and degradation of ecosystem services from agricultural lands remain
important challenges in the United States despite decades of spending on natural resource …

Global expansion of high-input annual grain crops and associated nitrogen (N) fertilizer use
can have negative consequences for the environment and human health. Nitrate nitrogen …

Over the past century, agricultural landscapes worldwide have increasingly been managed
for the primary purpose of producing food, while other diverse ecosystem services …

Ecological intensification of agriculture (EI) aims to conserve and promote biodiversity and
the sustainable use of associated ecosystem services to support resource-efficient …

Over the past two decades, ecologists have gained a considerable amount of insight
concerning the effects of biological diversity on how ecosystems function. Greater …

Public agencies and private enterprises increasingly desire to achieve ecosystem service
outcomes in agricultural systems, but are limited by perceived conflicts between economic …

Soil moisture is one of the most important parameters controlling various critical zone
processes including energy balance and nutrient cycling. However, hillslope soil moisture …