Claim · model-written summary
The authors infer that shrubs conserve N otherwise lost by leaching.
- Taxon
- Piliostigma reticulatum
Piliostigma reticulatumt0 - Outcome
- conserves N that is otherwise lost through leachinge0
- Qualifier
- shrube0
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Verbatim
e0“suggesting that the shrub conserves N that is otherwise lost through leaching.”
t0“Piliostigma reticulatum (DC.) Hochst.”
Title
Crop Productivity and Nutrient Dynamics in a Shrub‐Based Farming System of the Sahel
Ekwe L. Dossa; Ibrahima Diedhiou; Mamadou Khouma; et al. Agronomy Journal 2013. doi:10.2134/agronj2012.0432
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Shrub presence improved or did not affect crop yields in three of four years.
- Intervention effect Millet biomass increased with shrub presence.
- Intervention effect Peanut biomass increased with shrub presence.
- Intervention effect Millet N uptake increased with shrub presence.
- Intervention effect Millet P uptake increased with shrub presence.
- Intervention effect Millet biomass increased with fertilizer rate.
- Intervention effect Peanut biomass increased with fertilizer rate.
- Intervention effect Millet N uptake increased with fertilizer rate.
- Intervention effect Millet P uptake increased with fertilizer rate.
- Observation Soil inorganic N reached very low levels by the end of the season.
- Observation N content of soil leachates was generally lower beneath shrub canopy than outside.
- Intervention effect P. reticulatum increased soil particulate organic matter.
- Recommendation The authors conclude shrub management has soil and nitrogen-loss benefits in the Sahel.