Agroecological Modeling: Insights and Decision-Support Tools for More Resilient and Productive Cropping Systems
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Agroecology Innovation: Achieving System Resilience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2026 | Viewed by 161
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate extremes; agroecosystem modeling; ecosystem resilience
Interests: process-based agroecosystem modeling; soil health; sustainable agricultural management; remote sensing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Agroecological modeling has become an essential approach for understanding the interactions among climate, soil, crops, water and management practices in agricultural systems. Over recent decades, advances in remote sensing, process-based ecosystem models, machine learning and big-data analytics have greatly improved our ability to assess agricultural productivity, environmental sustainability and ecosystem resilience under climate change. Nevertheless, increasing climate extremes, resource limitations and environmental pressures continue to challenge global cropping systems.
This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances in agroecological modeling and decision-support tools for more resilient and productive cropping systems. We particularly welcome cutting-edge studies that use remote sensing, ecosystem modeling, artificial intelligence and data-driven approaches to monitor agricultural and ecological processes, simulate crop responses to environmental change, attribute the impacts of climate extremes and human management and optimize agricultural practices for improved productivity, resource-use efficiency and ecosystem resilience. This Special Issue welcomes both original research papers and review articles addressing these topics.
Dr. Yu Shi
Dr. Yongfa You
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change adaptation
- sustainable management
- crop productivity
- agroecosystem resilience
- carbon and nitrogen cycling
- process-based models
- AI-assisted agricultural modeling
- remote sensing
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