[HTML][HTML] Targeting best agricultural practices to enhance ecosystem services in European mountains

A Bernués, A Tenza-Peral, E Gómez-Baggethun… - Journal of environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Agri-environmental policies in Europe are failing to sufficiently address ongoing
environmental degradation, biodiversity decline, climate impacts, and societal demands for …

Assessment of ecosystem services of rice farms in eastern India

AK Nayak, M Shahid, AD Nayak, B Dhal… - Ecological …, 2019 - Springer
Background Rice is a major cereal crop and staple food of eastern India, and most farmers
depend solely on rice for their livelihood. Rice farming provides both tangible and non …

Ecosystem valuation and eco-compensation for conservation of traditional paddy ecosystems and varieties in Kerala, India

S Rasheed, P Venkatesh, DR Singh, VR Renjini… - Ecosystem Services, 2021 - Elsevier
Etymologically 'the land of paddy fields', Wayanad district in Kerala, India, is a hub of
numerous traditional paddy varieties. These varieties are less-input intensive and highly …

Utilizing industrial wastes as compost in wheat-rice production to improve the above and below-ground ecosystem services

G Pradhan, RS Meena, S Kumar, R Lal - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The prime objective of this study was to enhance the ESs and achieve sustainability in the
wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)–rice (Oryza sativa L.) production system (WRPS). The study …

Assessment of soil health parameters and application of the sustainability index to fields under conservation agriculture for 3, 6, and 9 years in India

P Bhattacharya, PP Maity, J Mowrer, A Maity, M Ray… - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
The effect of duration of conservation agriculture adoption on soil carbon dynamics and
system sustainability was evaluated on farms of 30 villages in the Nilokheri block of Karnal …

[PDF][PDF] Agroecosystem services: From general assessment to policy implications

M Satama-Bermeo, M Rudolf, R Olschewski - People and Nature, 2024 - researchgate.net
Agricultural ecosystems managed by farmers provide and receive multiple ecosystem
services that are essential to sustain human well-being. Understanding how agricultural …

Tillage and N-source affect soil fertility, enzymatic activity, and crop yield in a maize–rice rotation system in the Indian Terai zone

S Sahoo, P Mukhopadhyay, J Mowrer… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
A field experiment (2017–2019) was undertaken to study the short-term effects of tillage
[zero tillage (ZT), conventional tillage (CT), and alternate tillage (AT)] and sources of organic …

Variation of porosity, pore size distribution and soil physical properties under conservation agriculture

T Ghosh, PP Maity, TK Das, P Krishnan… - The Indian Journal of …, 2020 - epubs.icar.org.in
For sustainable crop production and maintenance of soil health, conservation agriculture
(CA) practices provides an opportunity for improving soil structure and physical health …

Enhancing ecosystem services through direct-seeded rice in middle Indo-Gangetic Plains: a comparative study of different rice establishment practices

R Dubey, JS Mishra, A Das, GK Dinesh, N Jain… - Agronomy for …, 2024 - Springer
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is extensively cultivated in South Asia mostly under puddled
transplanted conditions which are highly energy and water-intensive with low income and …

Modeling water dynamics for assessing and managing ecosystem services in India

S Ali, A Islam, PR Ojasvi - Enhancing agricultural research and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The agro‐ecosystem is one of the world's most important ecosystems, which provides food,
fiber, fodder, and fuel, as well as water and climate regulation, and cultural services to …