Claim · model-written summary
Total nitrate-N leached fell 74% with zero-N living mulch relative to control.
- Taxon
- Corn
Zea mays subsp. mayst0 - Treatment
- living mulch with 90 and 0 kg N ha −1 yr −1e0
- Outcome
- Total nitrate‐N leachede0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- 74%e0
- Comparator
- controle0
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Verbatim
e0“Total nitrate‐N leached was reduced 31 and 74% relative to the control under the living mulch with 90 and 0 kg N ha −1 yr −1 , respectively”
t0“Corn”
Title
Water Balance and Nitrate Leaching under Corn in Kura Clover Living Mulch
Tyson E. Ochsner; Kenneth A. Albrecht; Todd W. Schumacher; et al. Agronomy Journal 2010. doi:10.2134/agronj2009.0523
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Spring soil water storage was 37 to 50 mm lower under living mulch than control.
- Intervention effect Summer soil water depletion was 29 to 36 mm greater under control than living mulch.
- Intervention effect Evapotranspiration was similar across treatments except in May.
- Intervention effect May evapotranspiration was 11 to 41 mm greater under living mulch.
- Intervention effect Living mulch did not appreciably reduce drainage.
- Intervention effect Both living mulch treatments significantly reduced soil-profile nitrate-N storage versus control.
- Intervention effect Both living mulch treatments significantly reduced nitrate-N concentration at 1 m versus control.
- Observation Flow-weighted nitrate-N concentration under control was 23 mg L−1.
- Observation Flow-weighted nitrate-N concentration with 90 kg N living mulch was 17 mg L−1.
- Observation Flow-weighted nitrate-N concentration with zero-N living mulch was 6 mg L−1.
- Intervention effect Total nitrate-N leached fell 31% with 90 kg N living mulch relative to control.