Conventional intensive farming has degraded soil health and reduced crop stress resistance, threatening the sustainability of temperate rainfed agroecosystems. This study compared the effects of organic farming management (including organic fertilization, crop rotation, and no-tillage) and conventional farming on soil physicochemical properties, soil microbial communities, and wheat stress resi...

Soil health is the foundation of sustainable agricultural production, and its degradation under intensive monoculture has become a major constraint in subtropical agricultural landscapes. Agroforestry systems (AFS), characterized by the integration of trees with crops and/or livestock, have been proposed as a promising approach to improve soil health. However, most existing studies on AFS and s...

Agricultural landscape simplification has significantly altered pest regulation services and crop productivity, posing challenges to sustainable agriculture. This study investigated the effects of landscape diversity (including semi-natural habitat cover, crop diversity, and landscape configuration) on pest abundance, natural enemy communities, and wheat productivity across 60 temperate agroeco...

Subtropical agricultural landscapes are facing severe biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosystem services due to intensive monoculture practices. Agroforestry systems (AFS), which integrate trees with crops and/or livestock, are considered potential solutions to mitigate these issues by enhancing habitat complexity. However, the effects of different AFS types on various biodiversity compone...

Subtropical agricultural landscapes are facing severe biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosystem services due to intensive monoculture. Agroforestry systems (AFS), which integrate trees with crops and/or livestock, have been proposed as a sustainable alternative to monoculture. This study evaluated the effects of three typical AFS (alley cropping, silvopasture, and forest garden) on farmlan...