Plant: soil interactions in temperate multi-cropping production systems

Ehrmann, Jürgen; Ritz, Karl

doi:10.1007/s11104-013-1921-8

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“…Intercrops are effective for improving the use of natural abiotic resources such as water and nitrogen, mainly in low-input cropping systems, by enhancing expression of positive interactions (Bedoussac and Justes 2010). They also help reduce weeds and soil-borne diseases and pests (Ehrmann and Ritz 2014). Introduction of legumes into crop mixtures and rotations increases N resources, strengthens disease resistance, and reduces N 2 O emissions (Bennett et al 2009).…”

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How to implement biodiversity-based agriculture to enhance ecosystem services: a review

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Thérond

Martin

et al. 2015

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Intensive agriculture has led to several drawbacks such as biodiversity loss, climate change, erosion, and pollution of air and water. A potential solution is to implement management practices that increase the level of provision of ecosystem services such as soil fertility and biological regulation. There is a lot of literature on the principles of agroecology. However, there is a gap of knowledge between agroecological principles and practical applications. Therefore, we review here agroecological and management sciences to identify two facts that explain the lack of practical applications: (1) the occurrence of high uncertainties about relations between agricultural practices, ecological processes, and ecosystem services, and (2) the site-specific character of agroecological practices required to deliver expected ecosystem services. We also show that an adaptive-management approach, focusing on planning and monitoring, can serve as a framework for developing and implementing learning tools tailored for biodiversity-based agriculture. Among the current learning tools developed by researchers, we identify two main types of emergent support tools likely to help design diversified farming systems and landscapes: (1) knowledge bases containing scientific supports and experiential knowledge and (2) model-based games. These tools have to be coupled with well-tailored field or management indicators that allow monitoring effects of practices on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Finally, we propose a research agenda that requires bringing together contributions from agricultural, ecological, management, and knowledge management sciences, and asserts that researchers have to take the position of "integration and implementation sciences."

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Section: Principles and Examples For Enhancing Ecosystem Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

How to implement biodiversity-based agriculture to enhance ecosystem services: a review

Duru

Thérond

Martin

et al. 2015

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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“…Alternatively, facilitation may occur indirectly, e.g. via stimulation of beneficial soil microbes to release nutrients during mineralization of organic matter, mobilization of sparingly soluble inorganic nutrients, or transfer of nutrients through common mycorrhizal networks linking co-cultivated crop plant species (Bainard et al, 2012;Walder et al, 2012;Ehrmann and Ritz, 2013;Sun et al, 2013;Tong et al, 2015).…”

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Crop acquisition of phosphorus, iron and zinc from soil in cereal/legume intercropping systems: a critical review

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Xia

Christie

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Background Phosphorus (P), iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) are essential elements for plant growth and development, but their availability in soil is often limited. Intercropping contributes to increased P, Fe and Zn uptake and thereby increases yield and improves grain nutritional quality and ultimately human health. A better understanding of how intercropping leads to increased plant P, Fe and Zn availability will help to improve P-fertilizer-use efficiency and agronomic Fe and Zn biofortification.Scope This review synthesizes the literature on how intercropping of legumes with cereals increases acquisition of P, Fe and Zn from soil and recapitulates what is known about root-to-shoot nutrient translocation, plant-internal nutrient remobilization and allocation to grains.Conclusions Direct interspecific facilitation in intercropping involves below-ground processes in which cereals increase Fe and Zn bioavailability while companion legumes benefit. This has been demonstrated and verified using isotopic nutrient tracing and molecular analysis. The same methodological approaches and field studies should be used to explore direct interspecific P facilitation. Both niche complementarity and interspecific facilitation contribute to increased P acquisition in intercropping. Niche complementarity may also contribute to increased Fe and Zn acquisition, an aspect poorly understood. Interspecific mobilization and uptake facilitation of sparingly soluble P, Fe and Zn from soil, however, are not the only determinants of the concentrations of P, Fe and Zn in grains. Grain yield and nutrient translocation from roots to shoots further influence the concentrations of these nutrients in grains.

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“…However, there remain significant knowledge gaps about the role of belowground patterns and processes (Ehrmann and Ritz 2013), since it is hard to distinguish the roots of different species grown in mixtures in the field (see Mommer et al 2010). Additionally, the presence of root biomass is not necessarily equivalent to root activity (Kulmatiski and Beard 2013), and the uptake of different chemical forms of nutrients cannot be derived from measures of tissue chemical content.…”

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Methodological tests of the use of trace elements as tracers to assess root activity

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Plant: soil interactions in temperate multi-cropping production systems

Abstract: Background and scope Multi-cropping approaches in production systems, where more than one crop cultivar or species are grown simultaneously, are gaining increased attention and application.

Cited by 193 publications

References 184 publications

How to implement biodiversity-based agriculture to enhance ecosystem services: a review

How to implement biodiversity-based agriculture to enhance ecosystem services: a review

Crop acquisition of phosphorus, iron and zinc from soil in cereal/legume intercropping systems: a critical review

Methodological tests of the use of trace elements as tracers to assess root activity

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