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Data on the effects of crop rotational diversity and nitrogen fertilisation on cereal yields

SND-ID: 2022-230

Overview
Data and documentation

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Monique Smith - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ecology

Riccardo Bommarco - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ecology

Description

Data contain standardised yields of several different cereals collected between 1958 and 2020 from 32 long-term agricultural trials across North America and Europe. Yields in tonnes per hectare were standardised against the overall mean yield per site across all treatments and years. Treatments include different levels of crop rotational diversity and nitrogen fertilisation.

This data was used in the article: Smith et al., Increasing crop rotational diversity can enhance cereal yields, Communications Earth and Environment, 2023.

Language

English

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Principal's reference number

SLU.ekol.2023.4.4.IÄ-9

Responsible department/unit

Department of Ecology

Contributor(s)

Ortrud Jäck - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Crop Production Ecology

Zuzanna Sawinska - Poznań University of Life Sciences, Department of Agronomy

Amélie Gaudin - University of California Davis, Department of Plant Sciences

Christine Watson - Scotland's Rural College

Remedios Alarcòn - Madrid Institute for Rural, Agricultural and Food Research and Development, Agro-environmental Department

Ortrud Jäck - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Crop Production Ecology

Zuzanna Sawinska - Poznań University of Life Sciences, Department of Agronomy

Amélie Gaudin - University of California Davis, Department of Plant Sciences

Christine Watson - Scotland's Rural College

Remedios Alarcòn - Madrid Institute for Rural, Agricultural and Food Research and Development, Agro-environmental Department

Eva Hernández Plaza - National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology, Spanish National Research Council (INIA-CSIC), Department of Plant Protection

Alessio Costa - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Crop Production Ecology

Domenico Ventrella - Council for Agricultural Research and Agricultural Economy Analysis, Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment (CREA-AA)

Robin Walker - Scotland’s Rural College

Andrzej Blecharczyk - Poznań University of Life Sciences, Department of Agronomy

José Luis Tenorio Pasamón - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, INIA-CSIC, Environment and Agronomy Department

Inés Santín-Montanyá - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, INIA-CSIC, Environment and Agronomy Department

Jaroslaw Stalenga - Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation - State Research Institute, Department of Systems and Economics of Crop Production

Steve Culman - Ohio State University, School of Environment and Natural Resources

Craig Drury - Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Harrow Research and Development Centre

Francesco Montemurro - Council for Agricultural Research and Agricultural Economy Analysis, Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment (CREA-AA)

Axel Garcia y Garcia - University of Minnesota, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics at the Southwest Research and Outreach Center

Krzysztof Jończyk - Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation - State Research Institute, Department of Systems and Economics of Crop Production

Francesco Tei - University of Perugia, Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences

William Deen - University of Guelph, Department of Plant Agriculture

R. Michael Lehman - USDA-ARS, North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory

Andrés García-Díaz - Madrid Institute for Rural, Agricultural and Food Research and Development, Applied Research Department

Boel Sandström - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Agricultural Research for Northern Sweden

Jeffrey Strock - University of Minnesota, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate at the Southwest Research and Outreach Center

Antonio Berti - University of Padova, Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment

Francesco Morari - University of Padova, Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment

Shannon Osborne - USDA-ARS, North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory

Andrea Onofri - University of Perugia, Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences

Cairistiona Topp - Scotland’s Rural College

Francisco Calderon - Oregon State University, Columbia Basin Agricultural Research Center

Sara Hallin - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology

Marty Schmer - USDA-ARS, Agroecosystem Management Research Unit

Timothy Bowles - University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science

Giulia Vico - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Crop Production Ecology

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Data contains personal data

Method and time period

Time period(s) investigated

1958 – 2020

Species and taxons

poaceae
secale cereale
avena sativa
zea mays
hordeum vulgare
triticum aestivum
× triticosecale

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Canada, United States, Europe

Geographic description: Data was originally collected from long-term agricultural trials across Europe and North America.

Topic and keywords

Research area

Natural Sciences, Ecology, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Agricultural Science (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Farming, Environment (INSPIRE topic categories)

Keywords

cultivation system, crop rotation, agricultural and aquaculture facilities, crop rotational diversity, grain yield, long-term agricultural trials, nitrogen fertilizers, cropping sequence

Publications

Smith, Vico, Costa, Bowles, Gaudin, Hallin, Watson, Alarcòn, Berti, Blecharczyk, Calderon, Culman, Deen, Drury, Garcia y Garcia, García-Díaz, Hernández Plaza, Jonczyk, Jäck, Lehman, Montemurro, Morari, Onofri, Osborne, Pasamón, Sandström, Santín-Montanyá, Sawinska, Schmer, Stalenga, Strock, Tei, Topp, Ventrella, Walker, Bommarco, "Increasing crop rotational diversity can enhance cereal yields", Communications Earth and Environment, 2023.
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Dataset

Data on effects of crop rotational diversity and nitrogen fertilisation on cereal yields

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yield_anomalies_publication.tsv (2.21 MB)

Associated documentation

Metadata.txt

Crop_rotational_information_desc.txt

R_script_Smith_etal.Rmd

Crop_rotational_information.tsv

R_script_Smith_etal.pdf

Description

See the attached documents for more information, including, ‘Metadata.txt’ for description of data codes, ‘Crop_rotation_information_desc.txt’ and ‘Crop_rotation_information.tsv’ detailing cropping sequence and mean yields of each rotation per site and ‘R_script_Smith_etal.Rmd’ to see how this data was used in the associated article.

R markdown output of the script is provided in the form of R_script_Smith_etal.pdf.

Version 1

2023-03-07
https://doi.org/10.5878/8af1-0q60

Citation

Monique Smith, Riccardo Bommarco. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (2023). Data on effects of crop rotational diversity and nitrogen fertilisation on cereal yields. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1. https://doi.org/10.5878/8af1-0q60

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

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Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Monique Smith - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ecology

Riccardo Bommarco - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ecology

Time period(s) investigated

1958 – 2020

Data collection

Mode of collection: Field/Intervention experiment
Description of the mode of collection: Data was originally collected from long-term agricultural trials across Europe and North America (see contributors of data). A research team at SLU collated and formatted the data to fit the purpose of examining the trends for the effects of crop rotational diversity and nitrogen fertilisation on cereal yields across a large geographical range.
Time period(s) for data collection: 1958–2020
Temporal resolution: 1 year

Variables

Published: 2023-03-07

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