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agriculture-ecosystems-and-environment
GitHub用于评估农业生态系统与环境期刊的稿件匹配度。涵盖从田间到景观尺度的环境结果（如温室气体、生物多样性、水土质量）的研究定位，提供选题建议、方法学标准、拒稿启发式规则及替代期刊推荐。
Trigger Scenarios
作者指定该期刊并需进行稿件适配性检查
管理或土地利用研究需强调环境结果而非单纯产量
在AGREE与其他农学/土壤期刊间选择投稿目标
需要了解该期刊的桌面拒绝启发式规则
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill agriculture-ecosystems-and-environment -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "agriculture-ecosystems-and-environment",
"description": "Use when targeting Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment or deciding whether an agroecosystem-environment manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the field-to-landscape environmental-outcome bar, data-reporting expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics."
}
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (agriculture-ecosystems-and-environment)
Journal positioning
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (AGEE), published by Elsevier, sits at the interface of agriculture and the environment at field-to-landscape scale: how agricultural systems affect — and are affected by — nutrient and greenhouse-gas fluxes, biodiversity, soil and water quality, and ecosystem services. Its defining expectation is a study whose central contribution is an environmental outcome of agroecosystem management, quantified with sound design and generalizable beyond one plot. A pure crop-yield/agronomy study with no environmental outcome, or a soil-process mechanism study with no agroecosystem/management framing, fits a sibling journal better. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current author guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live AGEE author guidance.
When to trigger
- The author names AGEE and wants a fit/framing check for an agriculture–environment paper.
- A management or land-use study must be framed around its environmental outcome (fluxes, biodiversity, water/soil quality) rather than around yield alone.
- The author is choosing between AGEE,
field-crops-research(crop/yield focus), andsoil-biology-and-biochemistry(soil-process mechanism). - The author needs AGEE's desk-reject heuristics and a credible alternative route.
Scope & topic fit
- Greenhouse-gas and nutrient fluxes from agroecosystems (N2O, CH4, CO2; N and P losses) and their management drivers.
- Biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes: pollinators, natural enemies, soil biota, and habitat effects.
- Soil and water quality outcomes of agricultural management at field-to-catchment scale.
- Land-use and management effects on agroecosystem function, including conservation agriculture, agroforestry, and grazing systems.
- Trade-offs and synergies between production and environmental outcomes across landscapes.
- Modeling and upscaling of agroecosystem environmental outcomes when validated against measurements.
Method & evidence bar
- The central claim must be an environmental outcome at field-to-landscape scale, quantified with defensible design and adequate replication across space and/or time.
- Flux measurements need appropriate sampling frequency, chamber/eddy methodology, and error characterization; cumulative-flux estimates must state their uncertainty.
- Biodiversity and ecosystem-service studies need sound sampling design, taxonomic/functional rigor, and statistics that handle landscape structure and pseudoreplication.
- Management comparisons need realistic controls and full agronomic/environmental context so outcomes are attributable and transferable.
- Models and upscaling must be validated against measured fluxes/outcomes with reported skill; data and code should be available per Elsevier policy.
Structure & house style
- Standard IMRaD; the introduction must frame the agriculture–environment problem and the outcome of interest, not just a production question.
- Methods must document the agroecosystem (soil, climate, management) and the environmental measurement protocol in reproducible detail.
- Figures/tables should make the environmental outcome and its management drivers visible (flux time series, landscape comparisons, trade-off plots) with variability shown.
- A data-availability statement and complete site/management metadata are expected; supplementary material carries measurement detail.
Official-submission checklist
- Before giving submission-ready advice, read
../../resources/source-basis.mdand../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the official source anchors, then cite the current Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment page you checked. - Search the live site for "Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment guide for authors" and follow the current Elsevier version.
- Re-check article types, structure, word/figure expectations, and abstract format.
- Confirm the data-availability/repository policy and reporting of environmental measurement and management metadata.
- Re-check competing-interests, funding, author-contribution, and AI-use disclosure, and open-access terms.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- The central contribution is an environmental outcome of agroecosystem management, not yield alone.
- Design has adequate spatial/temporal replication and handles landscape structure.
- Flux/biodiversity measurements have appropriate methods and reported uncertainty.
- Management comparisons have realistic controls and full environmental/agronomic context.
- Models/upscaling are validated against measured outcomes with reported skill.
- Data-availability statement and site/management metadata are prepared.
Common desk-reject triggers
- A pure crop-yield/agronomy study with no quantified environmental outcome.
- A soil-process mechanism study with no agroecosystem or management framing.
- Flux estimates without uncertainty, or sampling too sparse to support cumulative claims.
- Biodiversity/ecosystem-service claims with weak sampling design or pseudoreplication.
- A single-plot result generalized to landscape scale without justification.
Re-routing decision
- Crop yield/agronomy and resource-use efficiency is the core →
field-crops-research. - Soil-process mechanism (SOM, microbial function, nutrient cycling) is the core →
soil-biology-and-biochemistry. - Explicit sustainability framing, review, or meta-analysis →
agronomy-for-sustainable-development. - Large-scale climate/global-change ecosystem process dominant →
global-change-biology. - Broad food-systems significance →
nature-food.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest agriculture–environment topics>
[Environmental outcome] <the field-to-landscape outcome and its management driver>
[Method/evidence] <does design + measurement rigor + replication clear AGEE's bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <article type / data policy / measurement + metadata reporting / disclosures>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>
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