Crop Fertilization and Soil Nutrient Cycling in Farming System
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Soils".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 April 2022) | Viewed by 8328
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Crop fertilization and soil nutrient cycling in agriculture have always been at the center of agronomic research, mainly focusing on maintaining soil fertility and increasing the productivity of crop rotations in intensively managed fields. With the understanding that anthropogenic activity dominates the global cycle of N and P, and their losses from systems negatively affect the water and the atmosphere, the focus of research has shifted to ecological problems and environmental sustainability. Several indicators have been successfully applied in evaluating the efficiency of nutrient cycling and balanced fertilization. However, we are still far from understanding the processes underlying effective site-specific nutrient cycling. Better nutrient management planning under the 4R concept, enhanced efficiency fertilizers, and agricultural practices for effective regulation of nutrient transformation demonstrate complex trade-offs between nutrient cycling and the other ecosystem services that soils are expected to provide.
We invite you to contribute to this Special issue by submitting research articles, reviews, or meta-analyses on nutrient cycles and optimal fertilization as a function of biophysical factors, landscape attributes, and farm management. This approach provides an opportunity to reduce the uncertainties of sustainable nutrient management practices and to demonstrate the importance of your research.
Prof. Dr. Vladimir A. Romanenkov
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nutrient cycling
- nutrient management
- nutrient availability
- fertilizers
- fertilization practices
- modeling
- novel agricultural technologies
- soil fertility