Optimizing ecosystem function multifunctionality with cover crops for improved agronomic and environmental outcomes in dryland cropping systems

Ismail I. Garba, Lindsay W. Bell, Bhagirath S. Chauhan and Alwyn Williams

Agricultural Systems, 2024, vol. 214, issue C

Abstract: Integrating cover crop mixtures into dryland crop-fallow rotations may foster ecological intensification by enhancing ecosystem function multifunctionality compared with conventional fallows and monoculture cover crops. However, the expression of functional traits in cover crop mixtures is influenced by arrays of agronomic and environmental filters that differently influence cover crop performance.

Keywords: Ecosystem services; Functional diversity; Mixtures; Trade-offs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2023.103821

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