Well-designed multi-species grassland mixtures enhance both soil carbon inputs and aboveground productivity
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
385, С. 109578 - 109578
Опубликована: Фев. 27, 2025
Язык: Английский
Diversifying maize rotation with other industrial crops improves biomass yield and nitrogen uptake while showing variable effects on nitrate leaching
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
371, С. 109091 - 109091
Опубликована: Май 25, 2024
Crop
rotation
and
diversification
can
alleviate
the
high
nitrate
leaching
associated
with
maize
(Zea
mays
L.)
monoculture,
without
reducing
yields.
Prior
research
focused
on
maize-legume/cereal
rotations,
limited
exploration
of
rotations
industrial
crops
destined
for
biorefining.
In
2012,
four-year
systems
were
established
sandy
soil
in
Denmark,
consisting
maize,
hemp
(Cannabis
sativa
L.),
beet
(Beta
vulgaris
triticale
(Triticosecale),
organized
into
four
sequences
to
ensure
occurrence
each
crop
year.
The
fallow
periods
covered
"secondary
crops"-
winter
rye
(Secale
cereale
rape
(Brassica
napus
or
grass-clover
(Festuca
rubra
L.
–
Trifolium
repens
L.).
Over
two
cycles
(eight
years),
we
assessed
aboveground
biomass
dry
matter,
nitrogen
(N)
uptake,
their
stabilities
versus
alongside
quantifications
leaching,
carbon
(C)
N
stocks
up
100
cm
deep.
first
cycle,
(15.5
Mg
ha−1)
was
7%
significantly
lower
than
that
monoculture
(16.6
ha−1),
but
this
difference
disappeared
second
cycle
(17
16.5
ha−1).
uptake
(194.5
kg
similar
(196.6
higher
by
8%
(195.5
165.7
Nitrate
varied
interannually
precipitation
secondary
crops.
Higher
rainfall
increased
both
cold
months,
while
had
more
after
irrigation
periods.
Initially,
diverse
halved
compared
at
onset
when
preceding
did
not
survive
winter.
Winter
following
reduced
except
poorly
thriving
rape.
During
whole
period,
system
C
0–100
depth.
This
study
highlights
environmental
yield
benefits
diversifying
crucial
role
management
optimize
strategies.
Язык: Английский
Silvopastoral transitions in Latin America: toward diverse perennial systems
Agroforestry Systems,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
98(7), С. 2267 - 2272
Опубликована: Июнь 18, 2024
Abstract
Agroecosystems
with
greater
diversity
and
perenniality
have
been
proposed
to
promote
resilience
climate
change,
stability
of
production,
multiple
ecosystem
services,
socioeconomic
outcomes.
A
wide
silvopastoral
systems
promoted
in
Latin
America
for
their
production
environmental
In
this
brief
perspective
article,
we
discuss
the
implications
different
trajectories
towards
within
framework
ecological
intensification.
Transitioning
from
agricultural
dominated
by
annual
crops
complex
integrating
perennial
species
livestock
constitutes
a
clear
trajectory
context
tropical
dry
forests
Amazon
rainforests,
re-introducing
native
trees
into
degraded
sown
pastures
establish
increases
biodiversity,
perenniality,
services.
contrast,
grasslands,
plantations
exotic
timber
or
reduce
biodiversity
Therefore,
transitioning
is
not
always
intensification
but
depends
on
contexts
ecosystems.
Язык: Английский
Energy storage and stability of soil organic matter during the natural restoration of abandoned cropland
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
375, С. 109198 - 109198
Опубликована: Июль 24, 2024
Язык: Английский
Above-and below-ground border row interactions determine maize-perennial legume strip intercropping performance
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025
CONTEXT-Research
on
cereal-perennial
legume
intercropping
to
produce
forage
for
animal
production
systems
is
scarce.
OBJECTIVES-To
identify
key
factors
determining
yield
of
maize-perennial
strip
intercropping,
assessing
both
above-and
below-ground
interactions.
METHODS-A
field
trial
was
conducted
in
the
Netherlands
from
August
2021
September
2023.
Alfalfa,
white
clover
and
red
were
each
intercropped
with
maize.
Maize
strips
consisted
two
border
rows
one
inner
row.
All
species
also
grown
as
sole
crops,
maize
at
100
or
250
kg
N
ha-1.
RESULTS-In
Year
1,
intercrops
showed
negative
net
effect
values
(maize-alfalfa:-2.7
Mg
ha-1
,
maizewhite
clover:-3.3
maize-red
clover:-2.8
ha-1),
produced
less
biomass
than
In
2
high
N,
maize-alfalfa
had
a
around
zero,
maize-white
(4.8
ha-1)
(3.5
positive
effects,
more
captured
extra
light.
CONCLUSIONS-In
studied
intercrops,
parts
different
competition-recovery
relationships
because
temporal
dynamics
spatial
niche
occupation.
Without
resource
limitation,
early
dominance
Язык: Английский
Trade-off between organic and inorganic carbon in soils under alfalfa-grass-cropland rotation
CATENA,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
254, С. 108994 - 108994
Опубликована: Апрель 2, 2025
Язык: Английский
Optimal nitrogen management increased topsoil organic carbon stock and maintained whole soil inorganic carbon stock to increase soil carbon stock—A 15-year field evidence
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
379, С. 109365 - 109365
Опубликована: Ноя. 13, 2024
Язык: Английский
Well-Designed Multispecies Grassland Mixtures Enhance Both Soil C Inputs and Aboveground Productivity
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024
Язык: Английский
Effects of Soil Type and Watering Regime on Performance of C4 Grass Ecotypes in A Simulated Semi-Arid Environment in Kenya
East African Journal of Agriculture and Biotechnology,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
7(1), С. 399 - 415
Опубликована: Авг. 22, 2024
Perennial
grasses
form
the
bulk
of
nutrition
for
livestock
in
semi-arid
grassland
ecosystems
addition
to
provision
other
ecosystem
services
such
as
carbon
storage.
A
study
was
undertaken
evaluate
performance
ecotypes
two
common
perennial
(Panicum
maximum
and
Cenchrus
ciliaris)
under
different
soil
types
watering
regimes.
Four
indigenous
grass
namely
Panicum
ISY,
TVT,
ciliaris
KLF
MGD
grown
three
(ferralsols,
fluvisols,
gleysols)
subjected
varied
regimes
(enhanced,
depressed
normal)
greenhouse
study.
Interactively,
strongly
influenced
morphological
attributes
among
ecotypes.
Shoot
root
biomass
production
significantly
(p
<
0.05)
higher
fluvisols
enhanced
lower
gleysols
watering.
by
between
7-34
%
10-35
compared
those
ferralsols
respectively.
Similar
trends
were
observed
rood
biomass.
Enhanced
resulted
growth
irrespective
type.
Depressed
water
contributed
a
decline
Root
50-89
41-163
Root:
shoot
ratios
ranged
from
0.41
-
1.73
with
driving
allocation
patterns.
These
findings
suggest
that
are
key
drivers
productivity
ecotypes,
precipitation
variability
is
likely
have
strong
influence
on
grasses.
Establishing
appropriate
suitable
soils
adequate
moisture
can
enhance
success
fodder
rangeland
restoration
initiatives
increased
resilience.
Язык: Английский