Claim · model-written summary
Greater cover crop diversity was often correlated with greater soil microbial biomass.
- Taxon
- cover crope0
- Treatment
- cover crop mixture diversitye0
- Outcome
- soil microbial biomasse0
- Direction
- increasese0
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Verbatim
e0“increases in cover crop mixture diversity were often correlated with increases in weed suppression, increases in soil nutrient retention, increases in soil microbial biomass, alterations in soil microbial community structure, and increases in performance stability”
Title
Cover crop mixture diversity and function
A. M. Florence Lincoln (University of Nebraska) 2016
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Association Greater mixture diversity increased mean cover crop aboveground biomass productivity.
- Mechanism The apparent biomass advantage of mixtures was attributed to low yielding monocultures rather than complementarity or resource use efficiency.
- Association Greater cover crop diversity was often correlated with greater weed suppression.
- Association Greater cover crop diversity was often correlated with greater soil nutrient retention.
- Association Greater cover crop diversity was often correlated with changes in soil microbial community structure.
- Association Greater cover crop diversity was often correlated with greater performance stability.
- Mechanism The authors attribute functional differences to aboveground biomass differences rather than diversity differences.