Sentence examples for cropland potential from inspiring English sources

We also suggest that the production value of a multiple-use module – and thus the potential for conservation conflict – is a function of the yield gap of the cropland (potential for intensification) and the quantity and quality of non-cropland in the agricultural matrix that could potentially be cleared to make space for new cropland (potential for expansion).

Our pattern of cropland expansion (Table 3) is comparable to other studies on global cropland potentials [65] and cropland suitability maps [66].

This seems justified as a cross-check of the regional distribution of grazing areas in quality class 1 with the regional distribution of cropland potentials/suitability [65,66] revealed that regions with large cropland potentials also have large areas of high-quality grazing land and vice versa.

Our assumption to base our estimates of bioenergy potentials on current (grazing areas) or potential (cropland) NPP (section 2.5; other recent studies [68,69] used similar assumptions) is also a simplification that might result in over- or underestimation of the potential.

In this review, we examine the potential of cropland weeds to evolve so as to affect their invasiveness.

We reviewed the literature dealing with SOC distribution between soil fractions to evaluate carbon saturation for tropical soils and estimate the C storage potential of cropland.

The centralization of manure management in this region increases profitability but is also associated with increasing CH4 emissions, decreased potential for cropland application of manure, and other threats to common resources and public health [7, 61, 67 69].

We conclude first that there is substantially less potential additional cropland than is generally assumed once constraints and trade offs are taken into account, and secondly that converting land is always associated with significant social and ecological costs.

The potential of cropland with such conservation management to mitigate CO2 emissions from mixed grass-crop ecosystems at a regional scale needs to be evaluated.

There is still only a limited potential for cropland expansion and such expansion would cause losses to (semi- natural ecosemi- naturalmanifold decosystems socio-ecological consequences.

This implies that the global bioenergy potential on cropland and grazing areas is highly dependent on the (uncertain) effect of climate change on future global yields on agricultural areas.