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Edible Fire BuffersWildfires ravage lands in seasonally-dry regions with increasing regularity, influenced by expansion of the wildland-urban interface (WUI) and climate change. Landscape intervention---buffers of a low-flammability crop species such as banana---can simultaneously mitigate fire spread into urban areas, produce food profitably, and provide additional ecosystem services and economic benefits.
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Changing Climate and AgroecologyFrom an ecological perspective we examine plant by environment, plant by plant and plant by production system interactions that have occurred in historic and do occur in modern food systems, again from a spatiotemporal perspective. This includes both retrospective statistical modeling and future projections. Partitioning the environment provides an opportunity to understand interactions and to decompose variance to understand mechanistic issues. Incorporating the principles of ecology and agroecology to understand food systems function and connect to local and global communities may help generate ideas about how to maximize productivity while simultaneously producing ecosystem services to provide a more stable and connected model for agricultural systems.
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