The Ecology of Agricultural Landscapes: Long-Term Research on the Path to Sustainability

Contents 1 Conceptual and Experimental Approaches to Long-term Ecological Research at the Kellogg Biological Station 1 G. Philip Robertson and Stephen K. Hamilton 2 Farming for Ecosystem Services: An Ecological Approach to Production Agriculture 44 G. Philip Robertson, Katherine L. Gross, Stephen K. Hamilton, Douglas A. Landis, Thomas M. Schmidt, Sieglinde S. Snapp, and Scott M. Swinton 3 Economic Value of Ecosystem Services from Agriculture 76 Scott M. Swinton, Christina B. Jolejole-Foreman, Frank Lupi, Shan Ma, Wei Zhang and Huilan Chen 4 A Crop Stress Index to Predict Climatic Effects on Row-crop Agriculture in the U.S. North Central Region 110 Stuart H. Gage, Julie E. Doll, and Gene R. Safir 5 Soil Organic Matter Dynamics: Controls and Management for Sustainable Ecosystem Functioning 142 Eldor A. Paul, Alexandra Kravchenko, A. Stuart Grandy, and Sherri Morris 6 Microbial Diversity in Soils of Agricultural Landscapes and its Relation to Ecosystem Function 186 Thomas M. Schmidt and Clive Waldron 7 Plant Community Dynamics in Agricultural and Successional Fields 216 Katherine L. Gross, Sarah Emery, Adam S. Davis, Richard G. Smith, and Todd M.P. Robinson 8 Arthropod Diversity and Pest Suppression in Agricultural Landscapes 257 Douglas A. Landis and Stuart H. Gage 9 Nitrogen Transfers and Transformations in Row-crop Ecosystems 289 Neville Millar and G. Philip Robertson 10 Simulating Crop Growth and Biogeochemical Fluxes in Response to Land Management using the SALUS Model 343 Bruno Basso and Joe T. Ritchie 11 Water Quality and Movement in Agricultural Landscapes 376 Stephen K. Hamilton 12 Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases in Agricultural Ecosystems 419 Ilya Gelfand and G. Philip Robertson 13 Farmer Decisions about Adopting Environmentally Beneficial Practices 459 Scott M. Swinton, Natalie Rector, G. Philip Robertson, Christina B. Jolejole-Foreman, and Frank Lupi 14 Acoustic Observations in Agricultural Landscapes 490 Stuart H. Gage, Wooyeong Joo, Eric P. Kasten, Jordan Fox, and Subir Biswas 15 Designing Cropping Systems for Ecosystem Services 512 Sieglinde S. Snapp, Richard G. Smith, and G. Philip Robertson