Soil health is a term used to describe the general state or quality of soil, and in an
agroecosystem, soil health can be defined as the ability of the soil to respond to agricultural …

The global increases in the surface and groundwater nitrate (NO3−) concentrations due to
synthetic fertilizer input have emerged as major sustainability threats to terrestrial and …

Increasing the quantity and quality of plant biomass production in space and time can
improve the capacity of agroecosystems to capture and store atmospheric carbon (C) in the …

Cover crops are well recognized as a tool to reduce NO3− leaching from agroecosystems.
However, their effectiveness varies from site to site and year to year depending on soil, cash …

Cover crops can provide a wide range of ecosystem services including soil water
conservation, improved soil nutrient supply and retention, and enhanced crop yields …

Cover crop mixtures with complementary plant functional traits including biological nitrogen
fixation (BNF) may supply nitrogen (N) to farm fields while simultaneously providing other …

Interest in planting mixtures of cover crop species has grown in recent years as farmers seek
to increase the breadth of ecosystem services cover crops provide. As part of a …

More diverse crop rotations have been promoted for their potential to remediate the range of
ecosystem services compromised by biologically simplified grain‐based agroecosystems …

Cover crops are considered to be beneficial for multiple ecosystem services, and they have
been widely promoted through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the EU and Farm …

Cover crops have the potential to be agricultural nitrogen (N) regulators that reduce leaching
through soils and then deliver N to subsequent cash crops. Yet, regulating N in this way has …