Correction: Permanent cover crop as a strategy to promote soil health and vineyard performance.
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Permanent cover crop as a strategy to promote soil health and vineyard performance.
ABSTRACT.- Conventional viticulture involves a high use of inputs that negatively impact ecosystem services and biodiversity. Traditionally, vineyards are rainfed systems and vegetation is removed or sprayed with herbicides to avoid excessive competition for water and nutrients. Introducing cover crops can positively promote several ecosystem services and particularly soil and crop health and biodiversity.
Biological control of phytopathogens and insect pests in agriculture:an overview of 25 years of research in Uruguay.
ABSTRACT.- Plants grow associated with complex communities of organisms, and their development depends largely on management practices, available nutrients in the soil, environmental conditions, and the balanced equilibrium established among all these factors. In unbalanced environments, diseases, insects, and weeds can decrease agricultural productivity or even destroy crops.
Biological control of phytopathogens and insect pests in agriculture: an overview of 25 years of research in Uruguay.
ABSTRACT.- Plants grow associated with complex communities of organisms, and their development depends largely on management practices, available nutrients in the soil, environmental conditions, and the balanced equilibrium established among all these factors. In unbalanced environments, diseases, insects, and weeds can decrease agricultural productivity or even destroy crops.
Caracterización de ecotonos entre biomas de bosque y biomas abiertos en un área protegida en Uruguay.
RESUMEN.- La teoría de Estados Alternativos de Biomas (EAB) contribuye a explicar la presencia de biomas abiertos (pastizales, arbustales) en ambientes suficientemente cálidos y húmedos para el desarrollo de biomas de bosque. En estos ambientes se pueden encontrar áreas dominadas por biomas abiertos que, según esta teoría, responden principalmente al fuego y a la herbivoría.
Principales líneas de trabajo de INIA Uruguay, relacionadas al Proyecto FONTAGRO SAR y TICs. [Presentación 3].
La ponencia trató sobre la herramienta para el manejo del riego GESIR-INIA, una aplicación web para la gestión y planificación del riego, cuya finalidad es orientar sobre estrategias de riego en diferentes condiciones de trabajo y sistemas de producción.
Los agroecosistemas ganaderos importante hábitat para las aves:análisis cualitativo del efecto del manejo productivo en especies prioritarias para la conservación en Uruguay. [Livestock agroecosystems important habitat for birds:qualitative analysis of the effect of productive management on conservation priority species in Uruguay].
RESUMEN.- La ganadería genera impacto ambiental a través de la modificación de los hábitats naturales y de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero que contribuyen al cambio climático. Sin embargo, la ganadería basada en pastizales naturales y manejada con adecuado ajuste de intensidad de pastoreo, puede tener también impactos positivos y mitigar varios efectos negativos.
Los agroecosistemas ganaderos importante hábitat para las aves: análisis cualitativo del efecto del manejo productivo en especies prioritarias para la conservación en Uruguay. [Livestock agroecosystems important habitat for birds: qualitative analysis of the effect of productive management on conservation priority species in Uruguay].
RESUMEN.- La ganadería genera impacto ambiental a través de la modificación de los hábitats naturales y de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero que contribuyen al cambio climático. Sin embargo, la ganadería basada en pastizales naturales y manejada con adecuado ajuste de intensidad de pastoreo, puede tener también impactos positivos y mitigar varios efectos negativos.
Soil health benefits from sequence intensification, fertilization, and no-tillage in annual cropping systems.
The expansion of annual cropping systems and associated land cover changes may induce soil degradation, compromising the soil's ability to function and provide ecosystem services, also referred to as soil health (SH). Conservation practices may reduce SH decline, yet their benefits are uncertain. The main objectives of this paper were to apply a comprehensive SH assessment framework to evaluate (i) SH differences in natural grasslands and cropping areas, and (ii) how conservation practices lessen SH deterioration.
Abundance and phylogenetic distribution of eight key enzymes of the phosphorus biogeochemical cycle in grassland soils.
Grassland biomes provide valuable ecosystem services, including nutrient cycling. Organic phosphorus (Po) represents more than half of the total P in soils. Soil microorganisms release organic P through enzymatic processes, with alkaline phosphatases, acid phosphatases and phytases being the key P enzymes involved in the cycling of organic P.