Trade-offs between economic and environmental impacts of introducing legumes into cropping systems

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue MAY2016, 2016, Pages

  Reckling, Moritz ^a,b   Bergkvist, Goran ^b   Watson, Christine A ^b,c   Stoddard, Frederick L ^d   Zander, Peter M ^a   Walker, Robin L ^c   Pristeri, Aurelio ^e   Toncea, Ion ^f   Bachinger, Johann ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^f National Agricultural Research and Development Institute   (Romania)

Author keywords

Crop rotation; Framework; Land use and impacts; Multi criteria assessment; Protein crops; Resource efficiency; Rotation generator

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971425176     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00669     Document Type: Article

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