Latest Research in Sustainable Agricultural Intensification

Top Research Topics in Sustainable Agricultural Intensification

• Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics — 52 papers
• Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions — 21 papers
• Climate change impacts on agriculture — 14 papers
• Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology — 14 papers
• Irrigation Practices and Water Management — 13 papers
• Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems — 12 papers
• Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies — 7 papers
• Crop Yield and Soil Fertility — 7 papers
• Weed Control and Herbicide Applications — 6 papers
• Bioenergy crop production and management — 6 papers

Highest-Cited Papers

1. Moderate grazing enhances soil nutrient cycling in desert grasslands through microbial community assembly at the patch scale
2. Stage-specific soil moisture regulation improves grain yield and water productivity of drip-irrigated winter wheat: Associations with stem carbohydrate dynamics and grain filling
3. Permanent living mulches based on species mixtures can bridge the gap between organic and conservation agriculture practices in Mediterranean vegetable systems
4. Integrated management strategies for sustainable intensification of a sweet maize–vegetable triple-cropping system in a water-sensitive region
5. Macrophyte litter diversity affects microbial respiration but not litter mass loss
6. Controlled-release fertilizer substitution boosts maize yield and water-nitrogen use efficiency via optimizing source-sink characteristics in saline-alkali soil
7. Land-use intensification reshapes soil biodiversity via trophic-level-specific shifts in community assembly
8. Mycorrhizal tree dominance effects on community-level nutrient status and resorption efficiency depend on tree diversity in a subtropical young forest
9. Weed community composition and diversity in long-term conservation agriculture-based maize-wheat-green gram rotation: Impacts of tillage, residue, and nitrogen
10. Paddock design influences soil inorganic nitrogen distribution in a pasture-based sow system with poplar trees
11. Disturbance from restoration reseeding is associated with short‐term topsoil carbon loss and alters soil bacterial communities and functions in degraded alpine meadows of the Qinghai–Xizang Plateau
12. Conservation agriculture: Evaluating trade-offs and synergies in food, energy, and carbon efficiency in agri-food systems
13. Ectomycorrhizal tree relative abundance is associated with higher aboveground biomass but reduced species richness and tree-size variation in temperate–subtropical transition forests
14. Identifying Suitable Irrigation Thresholds at Different Growth Stages to Improve Yield, Water Productivity and Quality of Drip-Irrigated Kiwifruit in Southwest China
15. Optimizing Crop Spatial Arrangement Improves Yield and Yield Stability of White Mustard (Sinapis alba L.) Under Dry Steppe Conditions
16. Synergistic effects of litter mixing on decomposition process at organ and species levels in a temperate steppe
17. Rhizosphere Soil Fungal Community Patterns and Drivers in Chinese Fir Plantations Across Developmental Stages
18. Critical levels and sufficiency ranges of phosphorus in Pinus taeda plantations in southern Brazil
19. Associations among soil microbial and plant richness across global terrestrial biomes
20. Effects of Nitrogen Application Rate on Yield, Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Spring Maize and Farmland Ecological Environment in the Black Soil Region of Northeast China

Sub-Regions

• Weed Control and Herbicide Applications — 88 papers
• Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions — 65 papers
• Climate change impacts on agriculture — 55 papers
• Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics — 24 papers
• Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology — 23 papers
• Polar Research and Ecology — 23 papers