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TY - JOUR
T1 - Transforming soil phosphorus fertility management strategies to support the delivery of multiple ecosystem services from agricultural systems
AU - Macintosh, K.A.
AU - Doody, D.G.
AU - Withers, P.J.A.
AU - McDowell, R.W.
AU - Smith, D.R.
AU - Johnson, L.T.
AU - Bruulsema, T.W.
AU - O'Flaherty, V.
AU - McGrath, J.W.
N1 - This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Science of the Total Environment. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Science of the Total Environment, 649, 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.272
PY - 2019/2/1
Y1 - 2019/2/1
N2 - Despite greater emphasis on holistic phosphorus (P) management, current nutrient advice delivered at farm-scale still focuses almost exclusively on agricultural production. This limits our ability to address national and international strategies for the delivery of multiple ecosystem services (ES). Currently there is no operational framework in place to manage P fertility for multiple ES delivery and to identify the costs of potentially sacrificing crop yield and/or quality. As soil P fertility plays a central role in ES delivery, we argue that soil test phosphorus (STP) concentration provides a suitable common unit of measure by which delivering multiple ES can be economically valued relative to maximum potential yield, in $ ha−1 yr−1 units. This value can then be traded, or payments made against one another, at spatio-temporal scales relevant for farmer and national policy objectives. Implementation of this framework into current P fertility management strategies would allow for the integration and interaction of different stakeholder interests in ES delivery on-farm and in the wider landscape. Further progress in biophysical modeling of soil P dynamics is needed to inform its adoption across diverse landscapes. © 2018 Elsevier B.V.
AB - Despite greater emphasis on holistic phosphorus (P) management, current nutrient advice delivered at farm-scale still focuses almost exclusively on agricultural production. This limits our ability to address national and international strategies for the delivery of multiple ecosystem services (ES). Currently there is no operational framework in place to manage P fertility for multiple ES delivery and to identify the costs of potentially sacrificing crop yield and/or quality. As soil P fertility plays a central role in ES delivery, we argue that soil test phosphorus (STP) concentration provides a suitable common unit of measure by which delivering multiple ES can be economically valued relative to maximum potential yield, in $ ha−1 yr−1 units. This value can then be traded, or payments made against one another, at spatio-temporal scales relevant for farmer and national policy objectives. Implementation of this framework into current P fertility management strategies would allow for the integration and interaction of different stakeholder interests in ES delivery on-farm and in the wider landscape. Further progress in biophysical modeling of soil P dynamics is needed to inform its adoption across diverse landscapes. © 2018 Elsevier B.V.
KW - Ecosystems services
KW - Phosphorus
KW - Soil fertility
KW - Soil test phosphorus
KW - Sustainable management
KW - Agriculture
KW - Soil testing
KW - Soils
KW - Agricultural productions
KW - Agricultural system
KW - Fertility management
KW - Spatio-temporal scale
KW - Stakeholder interest
KW - Ecosystems
KW - phosphorus
KW - alternative agriculture
KW - ecosystem service
KW - farming system
KW - soil fertility
KW - soil test
KW - spatiotemporal analysis
KW - agricultural land
KW - agricultural management
KW - agricultural worker
KW - Article
KW - biodiversity
KW - carbon sequestration
KW - concentration (parameters)
KW - environmental economics
KW - environmental policy
KW - harvest
KW - landscape ecology
KW - priority journal
KW - soil management
KW - water quality
U2 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.272
DO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.272
M3 - Journal article
VL - 649
SP - 90
EP - 98
JO - Science of the Total Environment
JF - Science of the Total Environment
SN - 0048-9697
ER -