Increased productivity of a cover crop mixture is not associated with enhanced agroecosystem services.

Cover crops provide a variety of important agroecological services within cropping systems. Typically these crops are grown as monocultures or simple graminoid-legume bicultures; however, ecological theory and empirical evidence suggest that agroecosystem services could be enhanced by growing cover...

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Main Authors: Richard G Smith, Lesley W Atwood, Nicholas D Warren
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4029995?pdf=render