The effects of organic farming vary between organism groups owing to their ecological traits. The effect of organic farming on biodiversity can be modified by landscape heterogeneity, land use intensity and time since conversion to organic farming. There are remaining gaps in the knowledge about how...
CAgricultural scientists in Switzerland have shown the long-term effects of organic(有机的) farmingmethods. Organic farms use no man-made chemicals to increase crops or control insects and diseases. The studyshowed that organi fields produced fewer crops on average than other fields. However, the...
CAgricultural scientists in Switzerland have demonstrated the long-term effects of organic farmingmethods. Organic farms use no man-made chemicals to increase crops or control insects and disease. Thestudy showed that organic fields produced fewer crops, on average, than other fields. However, thesci...
Organic farming has been introduced to mitigate negative effects, but is organic farming beneficial to biodiversity? In this review, we summarize recent research on the effects of organic farming on arable biodiversity of plants, arthropods, soil biota, birds, and mammals. The ecosystem services of...
This study involved a comparison of two pear (Pyrus communis L. cv. Nijuseki) orchards in the South Nagano area that were managed according to either chemical farming (CF) or organic farming (OF) practices. Leaf-scorch was not observed in the pear orchard under OF but was severe under CF...
Organic farming resulted in significantly lower N2O emissions than conventional farming in terms of the overall Global Warming Potential of the treatments (363 kg ha(-1) vs. 455 kg ha(-1), respectively). However, the N2O emission intensities did not differ significantly between organic and ...
Butterfly transects were conducted on eight pairs of organic and conventional farms in the UK in 1994, and ten pairs of farms in 1995. Each transect included areas of conventional and organic farmland. All species seen, and the abundance of each species, were recorded separately for the uncrop...
Superior effects of organic farming on the environment were more likely to appear for larger samples, primary data rather than secondary data, monocropping rather than multicropping, and crops other than fruits and vegetables. The environmental effects of organic farming were not affected by the ...
In cereals aphids are one of the main pest species, as they harm the crops directly when abundances are high or indirectly by distributing viruses. It is assumed that organic management of cereal fields enhances biological pest control of aphids, as potential flower resources can attract and ...
The positive effect of organic fertilization on SOC increases with increasing mean annual temperature in grasslands, a pattern not observed in croplands. Collectively, our findings highlight organic fertilization as a potential nature-based solution that can increase two ecosystem services of grasslands, ...