Cultivated Land Sustainability in the Anthropocene
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Plant Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2023) | Viewed by 10426
Special Issue Editors
Interests: digital soil mapping; Earth's Critical Zone; soil modeling
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Interests: digital soil mapping; hyperspectral remote sensing images; soil modeling; soil and life
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2. Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Interests: environment change; precision agriculture; high throughput phenotyping; remote sensing; high performance computing; photosynthesis
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Interests: digital soil mapping; earth's critical zone; cultivated land quality
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with its 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) was adopted at the UN Sustainable Development Summit in New York in September 2015, and it provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. The 17 SDGs are an urgent call for action by all countries—developed and developing—in a global partnership. Cultivated land is one of the most important land use types to support the survival and development of humans. Valuable agricultural productions and increasing income from cultivated lands can help improve the quality of our lives. Thus, the sustainable development of cultivated lands plays an important role in achieving the 17 SDGs. However, the spatial extent of cultivated lands is decreasing, and there are less than 1.5 billion hectares of cultivated lands, occupying only about 10% of the world’s total land area. Meanwhile, cultivated lands are suffering from low soil quality, degradation, soil contamination, salinization, and so on. Thus, it is a huge challenge to maintain the environmental health of cultivated lands, the high quality and yield of crop production, the beneficial agricultural management practices, and the sustainability of food production.
Therefore, this Special Issue will collect new developments and methodologies, best practices, and applications related to the science of cultivated land. We welcome submissions that provide the community with the most recent advancements in all aspects of soil, crop, agriculture, management and life, including but not limited to the following:
- Crop monitoring
- Fertilization management
- Farmland management
- Data processing, machine learning, and geostatistical and spatial analysis in agriculture science
- Spatial and temporal changes in soil organic carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, heavy metals, salinity, and others in representative areas
- The global cycle of soil carbon, nitrogen, and water
- Digital soil mapping
- The relationships between soil properties and human activities
- Inversion of soil properties from single and/or multisource sensor-based data (e.g., multispectral, hyperspectral, thermal, LiDAR, SAR, gas, radioactivity sensors)
- Climate modeling of soil systems
- Soils for sustainable agriculture
- Emerging approaches to characterizing soil carbon and greenhouse gas emissions
- Soil biodiversity
Dr. Xiaodong Song
Dr. Long Guo
Dr. Peng Fu
Dr. Shunhua Yang
Guest Editors
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