Organic Research - Ecology, Energy and Environment

• Biodiversity
• Energy Use
• General Environmental Impacts
• Greenhouse Gases
• Soil and Water Quality
• Sustainability
  

General

• NEW!! The Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES) Organic Research Forum 2010
  • Enhancing Diversity and Reducing Tillage in Organic Vegetable Systems - Part 1 (PDF, 3.3MB) & Part 2 (PDF 5MB)
• NEW!! Organic agriculture promotes evenness and natural pest control
• NEW!! Effects of vineyard management on biodiversity at three trophic levels
• Biodiversity in Organic Horticulture – an Indicator for Sustainability and a Tool for Pest Management
• Does Organic Farming Benefit Biodiversity?
• Organic Farming Boosts Biodiversity
• Scale matters: the impact of organic farming on biodiversity at different spatial scales
• Socioeconomic Obstacles to Establishing a Participatory Plant Breeding Program for Organic Growers in the United States
• Soil Fertility and Biodiversity in Organic Farming

Birds

• NEW!! Landscape-moderated importance of hedges in conserving farmland bird diversity of organic vs. conventional croplands and grasslands
• Agroecology of Birds in Organic and Nonorganic Farmland
• Bird communities of prairie uplands and wetlands
• Birds, plants thrive on UK organic farms
• Specialist response to proportion of arable land and pesticide input in agricultural landscapes

Fungi

• Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and organic farming
• Impact of long-term conventional and organic farming on the diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
• Molecular diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in onion roots from organic and conventional farming systems in the Netherlands

Insects

• NEW!! Organic farming in isolated landscapes does not benefit flower-visiting insects and pollination
• Effects of flower attractiveness and nectar availability in field margins on biological control by by parasitoids
• Impact of agricultural management systems on carabid beetle communities and invertebrate weed seed predation
• Insect behavioural ecology and other factors affecting the control efficacy of agro-ecosystem diversification strategies
• Landscape and management effects on structure and function of soil arthropod communities in winter wheat
• Relationship of Soybean Aphid to Soybean Plant Nutrients, Landscape Structure, and Natural Enemies
• Seed predation increases with ground beetle diversity in a Wisconsin (USA) potato agroecosystem

Plants

• NEW!! Arable plant communities as indicators of farming practice
• Plant diversity in crop fields of organic and conventional farms
• Quantifying the effect of organic farming, field boundary type and landscape structure on the vegetation of field boundaries

Energy Use

• NEW!! Improving Energy Efficiency and GHG Mitigation Potentials in Canadian Organic Farming Systems 
• Comparing energy use and GHG mitigation potentials in organic vs. conventional farming systems
• Energy and Environmental Issues in Organic and Conventional Agriculture
• Energy efficiency in farming systems: organic and conventional agriculture
• Energy self-reliance, net-energy production and GHG emissions in Danish organic cash crop farms
• Energy use and efficiency in organic and conventional systems
• Energy utilization in crop and dairy production in organic and conventional livestock production systems
• Scenario Modeling Potential Eco-efficiency Gains from a Transition to Organic Agriculture: Life Cycle Perspectives on Canadian Canola, Corn, Soy and Wheat Production

Gereral Environmental Impacts

• NEW!! Cost-effectiveness of organic farming for achieving environmental policy targets in Switzerland
• Agronomic and environmental implications of organic farming systems
• Comparing the environmental impacts of pasture-based and confinement-based dairy systems using life cycle assessment
• Determining environmental burdens and resource use in agriculture
• Ecological services of faba bean
• Environmental and Economic Comparisons of Organic and Conventional Farming Systems
• Environmental impacts of organic agriculture: a Canadian perspective
• Life cycle assessment of conventional and organic farming
• Measuring the Environmental Benefits of Organic Food Production
• Organic agriculture and climate change

Greenhouse Gases

• NEW!! Improving Energy Efficiency and GHG Mitigation Potentials in Canadian Organic Farming Systems 
• Comparing energy use and GHG mitigation potentials in organic vs. conventional farming systems
• Emissions of nitrous oxide from arable organic and conventional cropping systems on two soil types
• Greenhouse gases and ammonia emissions from organic mixed crop-dairy systems: a critical review of mitigation options
• Impact of organic pig production systems on CO₂ emission, C sequestration and nitrate pollution
• Is organic farming a mitigation option? – A study on N₂O emission from winter wheat
• Legume-based cropping systems have reduced carbon and nitrogen losses
• Legumes touted as emission fighters
• Modelling greenhouse gas emissions from European conventional and organic dairy farms
• Nitrous oxide emissions from organic and conventional crop rotations in five European countries
• Nitrous oxide emissions from organic farming: the importance of well-timed ley cultivation
• Organic farming and climate change (PDF, 1.3 MB)
• Quantifying reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from composting
• Regenerative Farming:A Solution to Global Warming (PDF, 1.9 MB)
• Scenario Modeling Potential Eco-efficiency Gains from a Transition to Organic Agriculture: Life Cycle Perspectives on Canadian Canola, Corn, Soy and Wheat Production
• Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics Following Application of Pig Slurry for the 19th Consecutive Year

Soil and Water Quality

• Antibiotic Losses in Leaching and Surface Runoff from Manure-Amended Agricultural Land
• Organic Farming: Good Practice for Soil Quality Preservation
• Organic Farming Practices Improve Water Quality in Minnesota
• Plant and Environment Interactions - The Myth of Nitrogen Fertilization

Sustainability

• NEW!! Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century
• Agronomy for Sustainable Agriculture: A Review
• Are biotechnology and sustainable agriculture compatible?
• European Union Integrated Project "Quality Low Input Food"
  • Horizontal activities such as environmental and sustainability audits, cost-benefit analyses and socio-economic impact assessments
• Indicators to Assess the Sustainability of Farms Converting to Organic
• Integrating agroecological processes into cropping systems research
• Organic Agriculture: The challenge of sustaining food production
• Utilizing intrinsic robustness in agricultural production systems: Inventions for a sustainable development of agriculture

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