A new Rothamsted long-term field experiment for the twenty-first century: principles and practice.

ABSTRACT: Agriculture faces potentially competing societal demands to produce food, fiber and fuel while reducing negative environmental impacts and delivering regulating, supporting and cultural ecosystem services. This necessitates a new generation of long-term agricultural field experiments designed to study the behavior of contrasting cropping systems in terms of multiple outcomes. We document the principles and practices of a new long-term experiment of this type at Rothamsted, established at two contrasting sites in 2017 and 2018, and report initial yield data at the crop and system level. The objective of the Large-Scale Rotation Experiment was to establish gradients of system properties and outcomes to improve our fundamental understanding of UK cropping systems. It is composed of four manag

SUBMITTER: Li X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10449994 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature