The Ecology of Agricultural Landscapes

Stephen K. Hamilton, Julie E. Doll, and G. Philip Robertson are affiliated with the Kellogg Biological Station at Michigan State University.

• Contents ; 1 Conceptual and Experimental Approaches to Long-term Ecological Research at the Kellogg Biological Station 1 ; G. Philip Robertson and Stephen K. Hamilton ; 2 Farming for Ecosystem Services: An Ecological Approach to Production Agriculture 44 ; G. Philip Robertson, Katherine L. Gross, Stephen K. Hamilton, Douglas A. Landis, Thomas M. Schmidt, Sieglinde S. Snapp, and Scott M. Swinton ; 3 Economic Value of Ecosystem Services from Agriculture 76 ; Scott M. Swinton, Christina B. Jolejole-Foreman, Frank Lupi, Shan Ma, Wei Zhang and Huilan Chen ; 4 A Crop Stress Index to Predict Climatic Effects on Row-crop Agriculture in the U.S. North Central Region 110 ; Stuart H. Gage, Julie E. Doll, and Gene R. Safir ; 5 Soil Organic Matter Dynamics: Controls and Management for Sustainable Ecosystem Functioning 142 ; Eldor A. Paul, Alexandra Kravchenko, A. Stuart Grandy, and Sherri Morris ; 6 Microbial Diversity in Soils of Agricultural Landscapes and its Relation to Ecosystem Function 186 ; Thomas M. Schmidt and Clive Waldron ; 7 Plant Community Dynamics in Agricultural and Successional Fields 216 ; Katherine L. Gross, Sarah Emery, Adam S. Davis, Richard G. Smith, and Todd M.P. Robinson ; 8 Arthropod Diversity and Pest Suppression in Agricultural Landscapes 257 ; Douglas A. Landis and Stuart H. Gage ; 9 Nitrogen Transfers and Transformations in Row-crop Ecosystems 289 ; Neville Millar and G. Philip Robertson ; 10 Simulating Crop Growth and Biogeochemical Fluxes in Response to Land Management using the SALUS Model 343 ; Bruno Basso and Joe T. Ritchie ; 11 Water Quality and Movement in Agricultural Landscapes 376 ; Stephen K. Hamilton ; 12 Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases in Agricultural Ecosystems 419 ; Ilya Gelfand and G. Philip Robertson ; 13 Farmer Decisions about Adopting Environmentally Beneficial Practices 459 ; Scott M. Swinton, Natalie Rector, G. Philip Robertson, Christina B. Jolejole-Foreman, and Frank Lupi ; 14 Acoustic Observations in Agricultural Landscapes 490 ; Stuart H. Gage, Wooyeong Joo, Eric P. Kasten, Jordan Fox, and Subir Biswas ; 15 Designing Cropping Systems for Ecosystem Services 512 ; Sieglinde S. Snapp, Richard G. Smith, and G. Philip Robertson

This compilation of research from the KBS LTER site is significant and could be utilized to inform policy makers and the agricultural industry as well as direct USDA funding. Continuing this research would certainly further advance the understanding of the wide-ranging impacts that arise from agriculture and because agricultural lands comprise over 40% of the Earths land (Owen 2005), the influence could be considerable.