Tradeoffs between Maize Silage Yield and Nitrate Leaching in a Mediterranean Nitrate-Vulnerable Zone under Current and Projected Climate Scenarios

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 11; no. 1; p. e0146360
• Main Authors: Basso, Bruno, Giola, Pietro, Dumont, Benjamin, Migliorati, Massimiliano De Antoni, Cammarano, Davide, Pruneddu, Giovanni, Giunta, Francesco
• Format: Journal Article Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 19.01.2016; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Agricultural production; Agriculture; Agriculture & agronomie; Agriculture & agronomy; Agronomy; Analysis; Best management practices; Biology and Life Sciences; Biomass; Climate Change; Climate models; Climatic conditions; Coastal zone; Computer science; Computer simulation; Corn; Corn silage; Crop yield; Cropping systems; Crops; Crops, Agricultural - drug effects; Crops, Agricultural - growth & development; Ecology and Environmental Sciences; Engineering, computing & technology; Environmental aspects; Environmental management; Environmental sciences & ecology; Fertilization; Fertilizers; Fertilizers - adverse effects; Future climates; Growing season; Growth; Ingénierie, informatique & technologie; Leaching; Life sciences; maize; Management; manure; Mediterranean Region; nitrate leaching; Nitrate-Vulnerable-Zone; Nitrates; Nitrates - adverse effects; Nitrates - analysis; Nitrogen Cycle; Physical Sciences; Research and Analysis Methods; rotations; SALUS; Sciences de l’environnement & écologie; Sciences du vivant; Sciences informatiques; Slurries; Soil dynamics; Sustainability; Triticale; Urea; Zea mays - drug effects; Zea mays - growth & development; Mediterranean Region; United Kingdom

Future climatic changes may have profound impacts on cropping systems and affect the agronomic and environmental sustainability of current N management practices. The objectives of this work were to i) evaluate the ability of the SALUS crop model to reproduce experimental crop yield and soil nitrate...