Claim · model-written summary
No-tillage reduced plant productivity except for weeds, especially in garbanzo.
- Taxon
- garbanzo
Cicer arietinume7 - Treatment
- no‐tillagee0
- Outcome
- Plant productivitye0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Qualifier
- except for weedse0
- Comparator
- standard tillage + continuous croppinge1
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Verbatim
e0“Plant productivity, except for weeds, was reduced by no‐tillage, especially in the garbanzo crop.”
e1“standard tillage + continuous cropping”
e7“garbanzo ( Cicer arietinum L.)”
Title
Soil Food Webs and Carbon Dynamics in Response to Conservation Tillage in California
H. Minoshima; L.E. Jackson; T.R. Cavagnaro; et al. Soil Science Society of America Journal 2007. doi:10.2136/sssaj2006.0174
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect No-tillage with continuous cropping increased surface soil microbial biomass carbon.
- Intervention effect No-tillage with continuous cropping increased surface soil fungi.
- Intervention effect No-tillage with continuous cropping increased surface soil nitrate in summer.
- Intervention effect No-tillage with continuous cropping increased soil pH, soluble potassium, and Olsen phosphorus at experiment end.
- Observation Few soil differences occurred at 5–15 and 15–30 cm.
- Intervention effect Total soil carbon was lowest under standard tillage with fallow.
- Intervention effect Soil food web complexity did not increase under no-tillage with continuous cropping.
- Observation The bacterial decomposition pathway dominated surface soil in all treatments.
- Association With no-tillage, opportunistic bacterial feeders decreased greatly with depth.
- Mechanism The authors infer no-tillage with continuous cropping accelerated soil carbon storage.
- Recommendation Management alterations are needed to produce higher crop biomass in this Mediterranean-type climate.