Designing intercrops for high yield, yield stability and efficient use of resources: Are there principles?

TJ Stomph, C Dordas, A Baranger, J de Rijk… - Advances in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Intercrop** is the simultaneous cultivation of plant species in the same field for a
considerable proportion of their growing periods. Interest in intercrop** for sustainable …

Urochloa in Tropical Agroecosystems

JLC Baptistella, SAL de Andrade, JL Favarin… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Increasing biodiversity is an important issue in more secure and sustainable agriculture.
Diversified systems are more resilient to climate change, environmental stresses and …

Long-term increased grain yield and soil fertility from intercrop**

XF Li, ZG Wang, XG Bao, JH Sun, SC Yang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Population and income growth are increasing global food demand at a time when a third of
the world's agricultural soils are degraded and climate variability threatens the sustainability …

Plant biodiversity and the regeneration of soil fertility

GN Furey, D Tilman - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Fertile soils have been an essential resource for humanity for 10,000 y, but the ecological
mechanisms involved in the creation and restoration of fertile soils, and especially the role of …

[HTML][HTML] Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions

WW Weisser, C Roscher, ST Meyer, A Ebeling… - Basic and applied …, 2017 - Elsevier
In the past two decades, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship
between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, most of which focussed on a limited set of …

Above‐and below‐ground biodiversity jointly regulate temperate forest multifunctionality along a local‐scale environmental gradient

Z Yuan, A Ali, P Ruiz‐Benito, T Jucker… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Tree diversity has been shown to promote a broad range of ecosystem functions in forests.
However, how important these effects are in driving ecosystem multifunctionality in natural …

Influence of edaphic properties in determining forest community patterns of the zabarwan mountain range in the Kashmir Himalayas

SM Haq, A Tariq, Q Li, U Yaqoob, M Majeed, M Hassan… - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
The significance of edaphic factors in describing forest vegetation patterns is becoming
more well acknowledged, with significant implications for the description of biogeographical …

[HTML][HTML] Anthropedogenesis in coal mine overburden; the need for a comprehensive, fundamental biogeochemical approach

SU Gunathunga, EJ Gagen, PN Evans… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The primary solid waste product of surface coal mining is overburden (also known as spoil),
the material that is moved to access the underlying coal seams. Once removed, this material …