Claim · model-written summary
Productivity is more punctuated in monocultures than multispecies systems.
- Taxon
- Monoculturese0
- Outcome
- seasonal tempo of productivitye0
- Direction
- more punctuatede0
- Comparator
- multispecies systeme0
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Verbatim
e0“The seasonal tempo of productivity is often more punctuated in monocultures than in multispecies system, leaving temporal productivity gaps”
Title
Ecology of agricultural monocultures: Some consequences for biodiversity in biomass energy farms
Wayne Hoffman; Jan Beyea; Jim Cook OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) 1995
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Monocultures can have very high primary productivity.
- Association Folivorous insect diversity and abundance track foliage productivity.
- Mechanism Productivity gaps may bottleneck herbivore abundance and diversity.
- Observation Herbivore populations tend to be less stable in monocultures.
- Observation Monoculture habitat is poorer for species requiring mesoscale diversity.
- Recommendation Tailor planting scales and crop combinations to support wildlife.