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Shifts from complementarity to selection effects maintain high productivity in maize/legume intercropping systems.

Published online: 14 Dec 2021

Authors: Zhang WeiPing & Gao SaiNan & Li ZhaoXin & Xu HuaSen & Yang Hao & Yang Xin & Fan HongXia & Su Ye & Fornara, D. & Li Long

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Complementarity (CE) and selection effects (SE) have been either invoked to explain the positive diversity-productivity relationship in natural and se...

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Emerging stability of forest productivity by mixing two species buffers temperature destabilizing effect.

Published online: 10 Mar 2023

Authors: Río, M. del & Pretzsch, H. & Ruiz-Peinado, R. & Jactel, H. & Coll, L. & Löf, M. & Aldea, J. & Ammer, C. & Avdagić, A. & Barbeito, I. & Bielak, K. & Bravo, F. & Brazaitis, G. & Cerný, J. & Collet, C. & Condés, S. & Drössler, L. & Fabrika, M. & Heym, M. & Holm, S. O. & Hylen, G. & Jansons, A. & Kurylyak, V. & Lombardi, F. & Matović, B. & Metslaid, M. & Motta, R. & Nord-Larsen, T. & Nothdurft, A. & Ouden, J. den & Pach, M. & Pardos, M. & Poeydebat, C. & Ponette, Q. & Pérot, T. & Reventlow, D. O. J. & Sitko, R. & Sramek, V. & Steckel, M. & Svoboda, M. & Verheyen, K. & Vospernik, S. & Wolff, B. & Zlatanov, T. & Bravo-Oviedo, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The increasing disturbances in monocultures around the world are testimony to their instability under global change. Many studies have claimed that te...

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Tree species mixing can amplify microclimate offsets in young forest plantations.

Published online: 03 Aug 2022

Authors: Zhang ShengMin & Landuyt, D. & Verheyen, K. & Frenne, P. de

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Macroclimate warming is affecting ecosystems world-wide. Tree canopies, however, can significantly buffer temperature fluctuations, giving rise to low...

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Strip intercropping of wheat and oilseed rape enhances biodiversity and biological pest control in a conventionally managed farm scenario.

Published online: 24 Jun 2022

Authors: Alarcón-Segura, V. & Grass, I. & Breustedt, G. & Rohlfs, M. & Tscharntke, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Conventional agriculture in the global north is typically characterized by large monocultures, commonly managed with high levels of pesticide or ferti...

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Agroforestry is more productive than monoculture, and organic agroforestry is competitive with its conventional counterpart.

Published online: 17 Oct 2018

Authors: Andres, C. & Schneider, M. & Trujillo, G. & Alcon, F. & Amurrio, P. & Perez, E. & Weibel, F. & Milz, J.

Content type: Bulletin article; Conference paper

Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is produced in monocultures (MONO) or agroforests (AF). Farmers have to decide between two strategies: short-term (rapid in...

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Yield of temperate forage grassland species is either largely resistant or resilient to experimental summer drought.

Published online: 03 Aug 2016

Authors: Hofer, D. & Suter, M. & Haughey, E. & Finn, J. A. & Hoekstra, N. J. & Buchmann, N. & Lüscher, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Due to climate change, an increasing frequency and severity of drought events are expected to impair grassland productivity, particularly of intensive...

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Aphid performance and population development on their host plants is affected by weed-crop interactions.

Published online: 16 Oct 2013

Authors: Dahlin, I. & Ninkovic, V.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Some farming practices, like organic farming, lead to greater numbers of weed plants in crop fields. These fields may give us some insights into any b...

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Spatial aggregation of herbivores and predators enhances tri-trophic cascades in paddy fields: rice monoculture versus rice-fish co-culture.

Published online: 07 Oct 2022

Authors: Wan NianFeng & Cavalieri, A. & Siemann, E. & Dainese, M. & Li WenWei & Jiang JieXian

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Rice-fish co-culture system has a history of more than 2,000 years in Asia and has been recognized as one of FAO's Globally Important Agricultural Her...

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Tropical rainforest conversion and land use intensification reduce understorey plant phylogenetic diversity.

Published online: 07 Nov 2018

Authors: Kusuma, Y. W. C. & Rembold, K. & Tjitrosoedirdjo, S. S. & Kreft, H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Conversion of rainforest into agricultural land affects multiple facets of tropical plant diversity. While the effects of tropical land use change and...

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Predicting the determinants of weed abundance: a model for the population dynamics of Chenopodium album in sugar beet.

Published online: 13 Apr 1999

Authors: Freckleton, R. P. & Watkinson, A. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Previously published literature on the population dynamics of a common arable weed, Chenopodium album, and its interactions with an arable crop, sugar...

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