Ecology and Environmental Science in Sustainable Agriculture
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 991
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Interests: Coleoptera; litter invertebrate community; agricultural pests; parasitic nematodes; food additives; industrial pollutants; sustainable agriculture; ecology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable agricultural production includes both intensive and extensive methods of producing crop and livestock products with minimal impact on the environment. The biological and landscape diversity of agricultural areas requires careful study, monitoring and modeling. We encourage authors to demonstrate specific ways to optimize agricultural production in their articles to minimize its impact on the environment. The virtually infinite variety of methods for producing tens of thousands of types of agricultural products (plants, microorganisms and animals with the widespread introduction of modern biotechnology methods, remote sensing methods, artificial intelligence systems, etc.) makes it possible to implement new methods for optimizing the interaction between man and nature in specific climatic, hydrological, soil and plant conditions. There is probably no general (universal) method for optimizing the cultivation of agricultural products. As long as humanity exists, new methods of environmentally oriented agricultural production will continue to develop.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to demonstrate the possibility of optimizing already well-known agricultural production processes, taking into account their minimal impact on the biological diversity of the planet or local biodiversity in a particular area. The editorial board of the journal hopes to attract authors to this Special Issue who will try to look at organisms that have already been well studied and adapted to agricultural production from a slightly different angle: (1) from the point of view of minimizing the impact of technological processes on these living organisms and (2) from the point of view of minimizing the negative impact of agricultural production on living organisms and landscapes in the surrounding areas.
Dr. Viktor Brygadyrenko
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainable agriculture
- global climate change
- extensive methods of agricultural production
- biotechnology in animal husbandry
- microorganisms in agriculture
- local biodiversity
- agricultural production and landscape diversity
- sustainability of biological communities
- taxonomic diversity
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