Implementing means to increase potato ecosystem services

与大多数经济活动一样，马铃薯生产通过使用自然资源作为投入或通过使用“清洁”环境作为污染汇来破坏环境。由于滥用环境的成本，即所谓的外部性，不属于价格的一部分，它们通过鼓励对社会代价高昂的活动而扭曲市场，即使私人利益很大。农场是做决定的地方。然而，农民们经常表示他们的关注，研究变得过于狭隘，以解决土壤健康，生产力和环境保护的整体关系。该项目的新奇之处在于，它以三元解决问题的方法汇集了研究人员、研究实验室、高素质人员和主要农民在马铃薯生产的关键生产和环境问题上的专门知识。我们的主要目标是开发跨科学学科的生态系统服务，以实现更可持续的马铃薯农业生态系统。我们的具体目标是：（1）定义地理参照土壤管理区，以使用考虑代表性土壤体积和分形动力学的ICBM和NLEAP模型监测碳和氮生态系统服务，（2）通过生物土壤质量指数和评估抗生素可能干扰的方案分析土壤功能，（3）在加拿大东部的实验地点进行荟萃分析，以提高特定市场的块茎产量和质量，考虑因素之间的相互作用，（4）发展营养平衡概念，用于诊断和鉴定栽培品种群，（5）发展马铃薯疮痂鉴定规程和诊断方法，（6）发展捕食者扩散技术，以防治科罗拉多甲虫，和（7）调查代森锰锌对人类健康的影响。我们的空间单位将是实现目标1至5的土壤管理区和试验田，实现目标6的农田和实现目标7的所有农场。加拿大将受益于HQP，碳，氮和马铃薯疮痂病的生物指标，用户可用的作物产量和质量的荟萃分析模型，用于分析有机投入的低成本NIRS，SOC组分和土壤质地，养分平衡概念，IPM和预防农药风险的农场决策支持。

As most economic activities, the potato production damages the environment through the use of natural resources as an input or by using 'clean' environment as a sink of pollution. Since the costs of misusing the environment, called externalities, are not part of the prices, they distort the market by encouraging activities that are costly to society even if the private benefits are substantial. The farm is where decisions are taken. However, farmers often express their concern that research is becoming too narrowly focused to address holistic relationships of soil health, productivity, and environmental protection. The novelty of this project is that it brings together, in a triadic problem-solving approach, the expertise of researchers, research laboratories, highly qualified persons, and leading farmers on key production and environmental issues of the potato production. Our main objective is to develop ecosystem services across scientific disciplins for more sustainable potato agro-ecosystems. Our specific goals are to: (1) define geo-referenced soil management zones to monitor carbon and nitrogen ecosystem services using ICBM and NLEAP models considering a representative soil volume and fractal kinetics, (2) analyze soil functions through biological soil quality indexes and protocols for assessing possible interference by antibiotics, (3) conduct meta-analyses across experimental sites in eastern Canada to improve tuber yield and quality for specific markets considering interactions among factors, (4) develop a nutrient balance concept for diagnosing and fertilizing groups of cultivar, (5) develop potato scab identification protocols and diagnostic methods, (6) develop predator dispersal technologies to combat the Colorado beetle, and (7) survey the effect of mancozeb on human health. Our spatial units will be soil management zones (SMZ) and experimental plots to meet goals 1 to 5, a field for goal 6 and all farms for goal 7. Canada will benefit from HQP's, biological indicators for C, N, and potato scab, meta-analysis model for crop yield and quality available to users, low-cost NIRS for analyzing organic inputs, SOC fractions and soil texture, nutrient balance concept, IPM, and farm decision support for prevention against pesticide risks.