Response of carbon footprint to plastic film mulch application in spring maize production and mitigation strategy

Producing more food with a lower environmental cost is one of the most crucial challenges worldwide. Plastic mulching has developed as one of the most dominant practices to improve crop yields, however its impacts on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions during the production life cycle of a crop are still...

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Main Authors: Bao-qing CHEN, Shahar BARAM, Wen-yi DONG, Wen-qing HE, En-ke LIU, Chang-rong YAN
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-07-01
Series:Journal of Integrative Agriculture
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095311920632786