Engineering a plant community to deliver multiple ecosystem services

Ecological Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1034-1043

  Storkey, Jonathan ^a   Döring, Thomas ^b,c   Baddeley, John ^d   Collins, Rosemary ^e   Roderick, Stephen ^f   Jones, Hannah ^g   Watson, Christine ^d  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b The Organic Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^e ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f Duchy College   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competition model; Cover crops; Functional traits; Legumes; Soil fertility; Weeds

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; BIODIVERSITY; BIOENGINEERING; COVER CROP; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOOD PRODUCTION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; LEGUME; PHENOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL FERTILITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUSTAINABILITY; WEED;

UNITED KINGDOM;

INVERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROP; ECOSYSTEM; FABACEAE; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; UNITED KINGDOM; WEED;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECOSYSTEM; FABACEAE; GREAT BRITAIN; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT WEEDS; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84930024319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-1605.1     Document Type: Article

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