@InProceedings{SutherlinBruOliCreVic:2017:InSuPe,
               author = "Sutherlin, Caitlyn E. and Brunsell, Nathaniel A. and Oliveira, 
                         Gabriel de and Crews, Timothy and Vico, Giulia",
          affiliation = "{University of Kansas} and {University of Kansas} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {The Land Institute} 
                         and {SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala}",
                title = "Investigating the sustainability of perennial agriculture",
            booktitle = "Proceedings...",
                 year = "2017",
         organization = "AGU Fall Meeting",
             abstract = "The changing climate leads to uncertainties concerning the 
                         sustainability of certain agricultural resources, and with the 
                         additional stresses of an increasing global population, 
                         uncertainty in food security will greatly increase. To adhere to 
                         future food demands in the face of this changing climate, 
                         perennial agriculture has been a proposed solution. However, it is 
                         equally important to assure that perennial agriculture is not 
                         negatively affecting the climate in exchange for this proposed 
                         more robust food source. We chose to examine the interactions 
                         between perennial and annual agricultural crops by focusing on the 
                         efficiency of exchanges with the atmosphere. This is done using 
                         the omega decoupling factor for 4 different sites as a way of 
                         quantifying the contributions of radiation and stomatal 
                         conductance over the resulting water and carbon cycles. This gives 
                         us an indication of how the plant canopy is interacting with, and 
                         influencing the local microclimate. Ultimately, this should give 
                         us an indication of the ability of perennial crops to aid in the 
                         climate mitigation process. We hypothesized that the perennial 
                         site chosen would have omega values more similar to the omega 
                         values of a natural grassland rather than an annual crop site. 
                         Using AmeriFlux towers to determine the canopy values needed to 
                         calculate the omega decoupling factor, we focused on the Kernza 
                         perennial crops being grown at the Land Institute in Salina, 
                         Kansas (KLS), in comparison to a natural grassland in Manhattan, 
                         Kansas (KON), a typical land cover model in Lawrence, Kansas 
                         (KFS), and an annual crop site in Lamont, Oklahoma (ARM). These 
                         results will allow us to move forward in the investigation of 
                         perennial crops as a sustainable food source.",
  conference-location = "New Orleans",
      conference-year = "11-15 Dec.",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "sutherlin_investigation.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "27 abr. 2024"
}