Publications by authors named "Mervin St Luce"
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- This study focuses on maintaining soil health (SH) for sustainable agriculture, especially in light of climate change, by evaluating appropriate soil indicators and methodologies for no-till crop rotations.
- Researchers assessed soil health in six different crop rotations across three sites in the Canadian prairies, identifying key soil indicators such as soil organic carbon and bulk density that were consistently important.
- The non-linear weighted additive scoring method was determined to be the most effective for distinguishing between crop rotations' impacts on soil health, with diversified and high-risk rotations showing the best soil functionality in specific locations.
Assessment of the impact of climate change on agricultural sustainability requires a robust full system estimation of the interdependent soil-plant-atmospheric processes coupled with dynamic farm management. The simplification or exclusion of major feedback mechanisms in modelling approaches can significantly affect model outcomes. Using a biogeochemical model, DNDCv.
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