Standardized research protocols enable transdisciplinary research of climate variation impacts in corn production systems

dc.contributor.author Kladivko, E. J.
dc.contributor.author Castellano, Michael
dc.contributor.author O'Neal, Matthew
dc.contributor.author Abendroth, L. J.
dc.contributor.author Gassmann, Aaron
dc.contributor.author Herzmann, D.
dc.contributor.author Helmers, Matthew
dc.contributor.author Lal, R.
dc.contributor.author Mueller, D. S.
dc.contributor.author Anex, R. P.
dc.contributor.author Arritt, R. W.
dc.contributor.author Kling, Catherine
dc.contributor.author Basso, B.
dc.contributor.author Bonta, J. V.
dc.contributor.author Bowling, L. C.
dc.contributor.author Cruse, R. M.
dc.contributor.author Fausey, N. R.
dc.contributor.author Frankenberger, J. R.
dc.contributor.author Gassman, P. W.
dc.contributor.author Sawyer, John
dc.contributor.author Kravchenko, A.
dc.contributor.author Lauer, J. G.
dc.contributor.author Miguez, F. E.
dc.contributor.author Nafziger, E. D.
dc.contributor.author Nkongolo, N.
dc.contributor.author Owens, L. B.
dc.contributor.author Owens, P. R.
dc.contributor.author Scharf, P.
dc.contributor.author Shipitalo, M. J.
dc.contributor.author Strock, J. S.
dc.contributor.author Villamil, M. B.
dc.contributor.department Department of Economics (LAS)
dc.contributor.department Center for Agricultural and Rural Development
dc.contributor.department Plant Pathology and Microbiology
dc.contributor.department Sociology (LAS)
dc.contributor.department Department of Agronomy
dc.contributor.department Department of Entomology
dc.contributor.department Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ENG)
dc.date 2018-02-18T06:20:35.000
dc.date.accessioned 2020-06-29T23:02:41Z
dc.date.available 2020-06-29T23:02:41Z
dc.date.issued 2014-01-01
dc.description.abstract <p>The important questions about agriculture, climate, and sustainability have become increasingly complex and require a coordinated, multifaceted approach for developing new knowledge and understanding. A multistate, transdisciplinary project was begun in 2011 to study the potential for both mitigation and adaptation of corn-based cropping systems to climate variations. The team is measuring the baseline as well as change of the system's carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and water footprints, crop productivity, and pest pressure in response to existing and novel production practices. Nine states and 11 institutions are participating in the project, necessitating a well thought out approach to coordinating field data collection procedures at 35 research sites. In addition, the collected data must be brought together in a way that can be stored and used by persons not originally involved in the data collection, necessitating robust procedures for linking metadata with the data and clearly delineated rules for use and publication of data from the overall project. In order to improve the ability to compare data across sites and begin to make inferences about soil and cropping system responses to climate across the region, detailed research protocols were developed to standardize the types of measurements taken and the specific details such as depth, time, method, numbers of samples, and minimum data set required from each site. This process required significant time, debate, and commitment of all the investigators involved with field data collection and was also informed by the data needed to run the simulation models and life cycle analyses. Although individual research teams are collecting additional measurements beyond those stated in the standardized protocols, the written protocols are used by the team for the base measurements to be compared across the region. A centralized database was constructed to meet the needs of current researchers on this project as well as for future use for data synthesis and modeling for agricultural, ecosystem, and climate sciences.</p>
dc.description.comments <p>This article is from <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation </em>69 (2014): 532, doi: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2489/jswc.69.6.532" target="_blank">10.2489/jswc.69.6.532</a>.</p>
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dc.subject.disciplines Agricultural Science
dc.subject.disciplines Agronomy and Crop Sciences
dc.subject.disciplines Entomology
dc.subject.disciplines Plant Pathology
dc.subject.disciplines Research Methods in Life Sciences
dc.subject.keywords corn systems
dc.subject.keywords climate
dc.subject.keywords database
dc.subject.keywords research methods
dc.subject.keywords soil measurements
dc.title Standardized research protocols enable transdisciplinary research of climate variation impacts in corn production systems
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