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Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Croplands
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Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Croplands

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2021) | Viewed by 10365

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Jagadeesh Yeluripati

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The James Hutton Institute Craigiebuckler Aberdeen AB15 8QH Scotland UK
Interests: climate change; agriculture; greenhouse gas emissions; mitigation; modelling
Dr. Mark A. Liebig

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USDA Agricultural Research Service, P.O. Box 459, 1701 10th Ave., S.W., Mandan, ND 58554-0459, USA
Interests: semiarid agroecosystems; greenhouse gas emissions; soil property dynamics; ecosystem services; long-term agroecosystem research
Dr. Ayaka W. Kishimoto-Mo

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Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO, 3-1-3 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8604, Japan
Interests: soil carbon dynamics; biochar; soil carbon sequestration; climate change mitigation; carbon cycle; ecosystem ecology; N2O; greenhouse gases

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Changes in climate will have significant impacts on agriculture. Changes in rainfall patterns, coupled with increased temperatures, will increase the vulnerability of agricultural systems globally to stress, potentially disrupting the capacity to efficiently produce food, feed, fiber, and fuel. Moreover, climate change will affect the delivery of non-provisioning ecosystem services from agricultural lands (e.g., biodiversity, pollination, nutrient cycling, etc.), with concomitant impacts on environmental quality across multiple spatial scales. It is essential for agriculture to mitigate its contributions to climate change and effectively adapt to its consequences, while concurrently meeting needs of increased production and improved environmental quality.  Unsurprisingly, agricultural production systems with these attributes are rare, as trade-offs between seemingly unreconcilable goals are common. Accordingly, elucidating trade-offs between goals is essential to guide adoption of climate-resilient agricultural practices in the future.

This special issue welcomes articles addressing relevant topics at the nexus of climate change and crop production. Articles highlighting climate mitigation and adaptation with the delivery of provisioning and non-provisioning ecosystem services are encouraged.  Furthermore, we welcome articles documenting novel approaches to monitor, model, and upscale environmental change under changing climate for cropping systems across the world. We also welcome contributions describing the development of new and effective technologies that help crop producers mitigate and adapt to climate change.

Dr. Jagadeesh Yeluripati
Dr. Mark A. Liebig
Dr. Ayaka W. Kishimoto-Mo
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Agriculture
  • Climate change
  • Impacts
  • Adaptation
  • Food security
  • Mitigation
  • Greenhouse gas emissions
  • Trade-offs
  • Monitoring
  • Modelling

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Management of a Mediterranean Forage/Cereal-Based Cropping System: An Ecosystem Service Multisectoral Analysis in the Perspective of Climate Change
by Matteo Francioni, Laura Trozzo, Nora Baldoni, Marco Toderi, Marco Bianchini, Ayaka Wenhong Kishimoto-Mo and Paride D’Ottavio
Atmosphere 2022, 13(3), 487; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13030487 - 17 Mar 2022
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Within Mediterranean cropping systems, legume forage crops that last up to 6 years or more (e.g., alfalfa) are replaced with cereal crops (e.g., wheat). The change from forage to cereal crops has negative climate and environmental impacts that must be addressed with mitigation [...] Read more.
Within Mediterranean cropping systems, legume forage crops that last up to 6 years or more (e.g., alfalfa) are replaced with cereal crops (e.g., wheat). The change from forage to cereal crops has negative climate and environmental impacts that must be addressed with mitigation actions. This study evaluated the synergies and tradeoffs between the ecosystem services provided by three management systems after forage legume. A field trial was set up from October 2017 to September 2019 on a 6-year-old alfalfa field subjected to the following management systems: (i) alfalfa termination followed by wheat for 2 years (WW, control); (ii) alfalfa termination followed by single amendment with 60 Mg ha−1 recalcitrant biochar and then by wheat for 2 years (WWB60); and (iii) extension of alfalfa for 2 years (AEXT). A range of regulating, supporting, and provisioning ecosystem services were assessed during the 2018 and 2019 cropping seasons. The results highlight that WWB60 can guarantee carbon sequestration without causing tradeoffs with other services, while AEXT can enhance soil conservation while not increasing soil greenhouse gas emissions. Future policies should support the WWB60 system if the goal is to increase the supporting services. Conversely, the AEXT system should be used if the goal is to increase the regulating and provisioning services. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Croplands)
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Nature-Based Resilience: A Multi-Type Evaluation of Productive Green Infrastructure in Agricultural Settings in Ontario, Canada
by Vidya Anderson and William A. Gough
Atmosphere 2021, 12(9), 1183; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12091183 - 14 Sep 2021
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Nature-based solutions such as green infrastructure present an opportunity to reduce air pollutant concentrations and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper presents new findings from a controlled field study in Ontario, Canada, evaluating the impact of productive applications of green infrastructure on air pollution [...] Read more.
Nature-based solutions such as green infrastructure present an opportunity to reduce air pollutant concentrations and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper presents new findings from a controlled field study in Ontario, Canada, evaluating the impact of productive applications of green infrastructure on air pollution and carbon dioxide concentrations across different agricultural morphologies compared to other non-productive applications. This study demonstrates that productive green infrastructure applications are as beneficial as non-productive applications in reducing ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and carbon dioxide concentrations. Nature-based solutions present an opportunity to build climate resilience into agricultural systems through supply-side mitigation and adaptation. The implementation of productive green infrastructure could be a viable agricultural practice to address multiple climate change impacts. Full article
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Challenges to the Adaptation of Double Cropping Agricultural Systems in Brazil under Changes in Climate and Land Cover
by Livia Maria Brumatti, Gabrielle Ferreira Pires and Ana Beatriz Santos
Atmosphere 2020, 11(12), 1310; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11121310 - 03 Dec 2020
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The wide adoption of highly productive soy–maize double cropping has allowed Brazil to become one of the main producers and exporters of these commodities. However, land cover and climate change could affect the viability of double cropping due to a shortening of the [...] Read more.
The wide adoption of highly productive soy–maize double cropping has allowed Brazil to become one of the main producers and exporters of these commodities. However, land cover and climate change could affect the viability of double cropping due to a shortening of the rainy season, and both crops could be affected. The goals of this study were to evaluate if adaptation measures such as adoption of shorter-cycle cultivars and delaying sowing dates are effective to maintain soybean and maize yield in the main producing regions in Brazil. We used a crop model and four climate models to simulate double cropping in two climate scenarios that differ in Amazonia and Cerrado deforestation levels. We tested if 10 soybean and 17 maize sowing dates and three cultivar combination could reduce the impacts of a shorter rainy season in double cropping yield and gross revenue. Results showed a decrease in maize yield due to a delay of soybean sowing dates and rainfall reduction during the growing season. Adaptation through delaying sowing dates and the adoption of short cycle cultivars was not effective to maintain system revenue in all the study regions in a scenario with high deforestation levels. Full article
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