Effects of Different Planting Patterns on Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Physiology and Crop Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 September 2023) | Viewed by 386
Special Issue Editor
Interests: soil fertility; crop productivity and stability; soil carbon cycle; diverse planting patterns; agro-ecosystem response to climate change
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The diversity of ecology, climate, and soil types leads to differences in planting patterns. The selection of planting patterns is crucial to ensure crop yield, improve soil fertility, and maintain the ecological environment of the region, which includes the optimal combination of crop types, aboveground interactions, and nutrient cycling, as well as greenhouse gas emissions, soil carbon sequestration, and non-point source pollution prevention and control. This Special Issue of Plants will focus on the effects of different planting patterns on crop productivity and stability, soil fertility and its mechanisms, and the ecological environment.
Prof. Dr. Ligang Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- planting patterns
- crop productivity and stability
- soil fertility
- nutrient cycling
- soil carbon sequestration
- aboveground–underground interactions
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