Carbon myopia: The urgent need for integrated social, economic and environmental action in the livestock sector

MT Harrison, BR Cullen, DE Mayberry… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Livestock have long been integral to food production systems, often not by choice but by
need. While our knowledge of livestock greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mitigation has …

[HTML][HTML] Application, adoption and opportunities for improving decision support systems in irrigated agriculture: A review

I Ara, L Turner, MT Harrison, M Monjardino… - Agricultural Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
Decision support systems (DSS) have long been used in research, service provision and
extension. Despite the diversity of technological applications in which past agricultural DSS …

Silver lining to a climate crisis in multiple prospects for alleviating crop waterlogging under future climates

K Liu, MT Harrison, H Yan, DL Liu, H Meinke… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Extreme weather events threaten food security, yet global assessments of impacts caused
by crop waterlogging are rare. Here we first develop a paradigm that distils common stress …

[HTML][HTML] Crop traits enabling yield gains under more frequent extreme climatic events

H Yan, MT Harrison, K Liu, B Wang, P Feng… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change (CC) in central China will change seasonal patterns of agricultural
production through increasingly frequent extreme climatic events (ECEs). Breeding climate …

Climate change shifts forward flowering and reduces crop waterlogging stress

K Liu, MT Harrison, SV Archontoulis… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Climate change will drive increased frequencies of extreme climatic events. Despite this,
there is little scholarly information on the extent to which waterlogging caused by extreme …

Fast winter wheat phenology can stabilise flowering date and maximise grain yield in semi-arid Mediterranean and temperate environments

BM Flohr, JR Hunt, JA Kirkegaard, JR Evans… - Field Crops …, 2018 - Elsevier
Australian wheat (Triticum aestivum) producers have been sowing crops earlier to adapt to
reduced autumn rainfall, extreme spring weather and increasing farm size. Analysis of …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated management approaches enabling sustainable rice production under alternate wetting and drying irrigation

Y Zhang, W Wang, S Li, K Zhu, X Hua… - Agricultural Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
Alternate wetting and drying irrigation (AWD) is promulgated as a practice for reducing
irrigation water usage in rice production; however, the implications of AWD on soil properties …

Optimizing crop rotation increases soil carbon and reduces GHG emissions without sacrificing yields

Y Yang, J Ti, J Zou, Y Wu, RM Rees… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2023 - Elsevier
Enhancing soil organic carbon (SOC) while concurrently reducing greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions and without compromising yield is a contemporary challenge for many …

Carbon, cash, cattle and the climate crisis

F Bilotto, KM Christie-Whitehead, B Malcolm… - Sustainability …, 2023 - Springer
While society increasingly demands emissions abatement from the livestock sector, farmers
are concurrently being forced to adapt to an existential climate crisis. Here, we examine how …

Earlier crop flowering caused by global warming alleviated by irrigation

A Muleke, MT Harrison, P De Voil, I Hunt… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Enabling crop flowering within an optimal calendar window minimises long-term risk of
abiotic stress exposure, improving prospects for attaining potential yield. Here, we define the …