Contents
1 Conceptual and Experimental Approaches to Long-term Ecological Research at the Kellogg Biological Station 1
G. Philip Robertson and Stephen K. Hamilton

2 Farming for Ecosystem Services: An Ecological Approach to Production Agriculture 44
G. Philip Robertson, Katherine L. Gross, Stephen K. Hamilton, Douglas A. Landis, Thomas M. Schmidt, Sieglinde S. Snapp, and Scott M. Swinton

3 Economic Value of Ecosystem Services from Agriculture 76
Scott M. Swinton, Christina B. Jolejole-Foreman, Frank Lupi, Shan Ma, Wei Zhang and Huilan Chen

4 A Crop Stress Index to Predict Climatic Effects on Row-crop Agriculture in the U.S. North Central Region 110
Stuart H. Gage, Julie E. Doll, and Gene R. Safir

5 Soil Organic Matter Dynamics: Controls and Management for Sustainable Ecosystem Functioning 142
Eldor A. Paul, Alexandra Kravchenko, A. Stuart Grandy, and Sherri Morris

6 Microbial Diversity in Soils of Agricultural Landscapes and its Relation to Ecosystem Function 186
Thomas M. Schmidt and Clive Waldron

7 Plant Community Dynamics in Agricultural and Successional Fields 216
Katherine L. Gross, Sarah Emery, Adam S. Davis, Richard G. Smith, and Todd M.P. Robinson

8 Arthropod Diversity and Pest Suppression in Agricultural Landscapes 257
Douglas A. Landis and Stuart H. Gage

9 Nitrogen Transfers and Transformations in Row-crop Ecosystems 289
Neville Millar and G. Philip Robertson

10 Simulating Crop Growth and Biogeochemical Fluxes in Response to Land Management using the SALUS Model 343
Bruno Basso and Joe T. Ritchie

11 Water Quality and Movement in Agricultural Landscapes 376
Stephen K. Hamilton

12 Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases in Agricultural Ecosystems 419
Ilya Gelfand and G. Philip Robertson

13 Farmer Decisions about Adopting Environmentally Beneficial Practices 459
Scott M. Swinton, Natalie Rector, G. Philip Robertson, Christina B. Jolejole-Foreman, and Frank Lupi

14 Acoustic Observations in Agricultural Landscapes 490
Stuart H. Gage, Wooyeong Joo, Eric P. Kasten, Jordan Fox, and Subir Biswas

15 Designing Cropping Systems for Ecosystem Services 512
Sieglinde S. Snapp, Richard G. Smith, and G. Philip Robertson