European grassland‐based livestock production systems face the challenge of producing
more meat and milk to meet increasing world demands and to achieve this using fewer …

Intercrop** systems can flexibly use resources such as sunlight, heat, water, and nutrients
in time and space, improve crop yield and land utilization rates, effectively reduce …

Plants buffer increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations through
enhanced growth, but the question whether nitrogen availability constrains the magnitude of …

Salinity causes disturbance in symbiotic performance of plants, and increases susceptibility
of plants to soil-borne pathogens. Endophytic bacteria are an essential determinant of cross …

Condensed tannins (CTs) account for up to 20% of the dry matter in forage legumes used as
ruminant feeds. Beneficial animal responses to CTs have included improved growth, milk …

Nitrogen is the most limiting nutrient in most agro-ecosystems and thus critical for sustaining
high yields. Conventional agricultural practices use synthetic fertilizers to ensure an …

Ecosystem services (ES) are the direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems to human
well‐being. Grassland ecosystems cover> 40% of Earth's ice‐free terrestrial surface, and …

Diversification of crop** systems has been proposed as a major mechanism to move
towards sustainable crop** systems. To date, a diversification option that has received …

A coordinated continental‐scale field experiment across 31 sites was used to compare the
biomass yield of monocultures and four species mixtures associated with intensively …

Management of nitrogen (N) inputs into agricultural systems is of increasing interest due to
the intensive use of synthetic fertilizers in modern cash crop systems, which has caused …