Agro-Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change: Adaptation and Mitigation

Dear Colleagues,

Agriculture and climate change are inextricably tied. Agronomic practices exacerbate climate change by contributing to increased greenhouse gas (GHG) levels, while increasing temperature and precipitation variability caused by those emissions are challenges to production. However, creative alterations to traditional irrigation, fertilization, animal feeding, and cropping can reduce GHGs, increase efficiency, and improve soil and water quality. To highlight these challenges and advances, we are soliciting articles for a Special Issue in the journal Agronomy, titled “Strategies to Address Climate Change in Agro-Ecosystems: Adaptation and Mitigation”. We encourage submissions focused on climate impacts on water use in agro-ecosystems, agronomy effects on carbon and nitrogen cycling, changes to crop production and resource utilization due to climate change, greenhouse gas mitigation, and soil carbon storage. Submissions may be from empirical or modeling studies, as well as quantitative research reviews and meta-analyses.

* Submissions will undergo formal peer review, and authors should select the Special Issue title “Agro-Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change: Adaptation and Mitigation” at the time of submission.

Dr. Benjamin D Duval
Dr. Matias Aguerre
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Agronomy is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.