Overcoming undesirable resilience in the global food system

Autor: Tom H. Oliver, Emily Boyd, Kelvin Balcombe, Tim G. Benton, James M. Bullock, Deanna Donovan, Giuseppe Feola, Matthew Heard, Georgina M. Mace, Simon R. Mortimer, Richard J. Nunes, Richard F. Pywell, Dominik Zaum

Publikováno v: Global Sustainability, Vol 1 (2018)

Our current global food system – from food production to consumption, including manufacture, packaging, transport, retail and associated businesses – is responsible for extensive negative social and environmental impacts which threaten the long-t

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Microbial communities in local and transplanted soils along a latitudinal gradient

Autor: Jan Frouz, Tomas Vetrovsky, Veronika Jílková, Heikki Setälä, Simon R. Mortimer, Alica Chronakova, Qiang Lin, Petr Baldrian, Petr Hedenec, Tomáš Cajthaml, Alena Filipová, Jaroslav Kukla, Vaclav Kristufek, Maria A. Tsiafouli

Publikováno v: Catena: an interdisciplinary journal of geomorphology, hydrology, pedology

Factors shaping community structure of soil microbiota have been intensively studied; however, the pattern in community composition and structure of soil microbiota at large geographical scales and factors regulating its metabolic activity remains po

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2018.10.043

Obtaining more benefits from crop residues as soil amendments by application as chemically heterogeneous mixtures

Autor: Andrew P. Whitmore, Marijke Struijk, Tom Sizmur, Simon R. Mortimer

Publikováno v: SOIL, Vol 6, Pp 467-481 (2020)

Crop residues are valuable soil amendments in terms of the carbon and other nutrients they contain, but incorporation of residues does not always translate into increases in nutrient availability, soil organic matter (SOM), soil structure, and overal

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https://soil.copernicus.org/articles/6/467/2020/

The benefits of hedgerows for pollinators and natural enemies depends on hedge quality and landscape context

Autor: Duncan J. Coston, Michael P.D. Garratt, Simon G. Potts, Simon R. Mortimer, Deepa Senapathi

Publikováno v: Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 247:363-370

Ecological intensification advocates the harnessing of regulating and supporting ecosystem services to promote more sustainable food production, and this relies on effective management of non-cropped habitats. Hedgerows are an important component of

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2017.06.048

What agricultural practices are most likely to deliver 'sustainable intensification' in the UK?

Autor: Alex Dinsdale, Les G. Firbank, Stuart Knight, Mark A. Moore, William J. Sutherland, Michael R. F. Lee, Richard Soffe, Elizabeth L. Bowles, John R. Wallace, Kim Matthews, Phil Jarvis, Frederic Ang, T. Charles Murray, Prysor Williams, Carlo Leifert, Bryony Taylor, Stephen Humphreys, Stephen J. Ramsden, Matt Lobley, Dave Roberts, Chris Stoate, Sam Durham, David Christian Rose, Nigel Boatman, Lynn V. Dicks, A. Nicholas E. Birch, Michael Winter, Dewi Jones, Laurence Smith, David R. Chadwick, Simon R. Mortimer, Stephen Aston, Paul Wilson, John Elliott, Carol Morris, Alice Midmer, Keith Norman, D. R. Kindred, Mark Topliff, David Tinker

Publikováno v: Food and Energy Security 8 (2019) 1
Dicks, L V, Rose, D C, Ang, F, Aston, S, Birch, A N E, Boatman, N, Bowles, E L, Chadwick, D, Dinsdale, A, Durham, S, Elliott, J, Firbank, L, Humphreys, S, Jarvis, P, Jones, D, Kindred, D, Knight, S M, Lee, M R F, Leifert, C, Lobley, M, Matthews, K, Midmer, A, Moore, M, Morris, C, Mortimer, S, Murray, T C, Norman, K, Ramsden, S, Roberts, D, Smith, L G, Soffe, R, Stoate, C, Taylor, B, Tinker, D, Topliff, M, Wallace, J, Williams, P, Wilson, P, Winter, M & Sutherland, W J 2018, ' What agricultural practices are most likely to deliver “sustainable intensification” in the UK? ', Food and Energy Security . https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.148
Food and Energy Security, 8(1)

Sustainable intensification is a process by which agricultural productivity is enhanced whilst also creating environmental and social benefits. We aimed to identify practices likely to deliver sustainable intensification, currently available for UK f

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https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.148