Communications Earth & Environment (Mar 2023)
Increasing crop rotational diversity can enhance cereal yields
- Monique E. Smith,
- Giulia Vico,
- Alessio Costa,
- Timothy Bowles,
- Amélie C. M. Gaudin,
- Sara Hallin,
- Christine A. Watson,
- Remedios Alarcòn,
- Antonio Berti,
- Andrzej Blecharczyk,
- Francisco J. Calderon,
- Steve Culman,
- William Deen,
- Craig F. Drury,
- Axel Garcia y. Garcia,
- Andrés García-Díaz,
- Eva Hernández Plaza,
- Krzysztof Jonczyk,
- Ortrud Jäck,
- R. Michael Lehman,
- Francesco Montemurro,
- Francesco Morari,
- Andrea Onofri,
- Shannon L. Osborne,
- José Luis Tenorio Pasamón,
- Boël Sandström,
- Inés Santín-Montanyá,
- Zuzanna Sawinska,
- Marty R. Schmer,
- Jaroslaw Stalenga,
- Jeffrey Strock,
- Francesco Tei,
- Cairistiona F. E. Topp,
- Domenico Ventrella,
- Robin L. Walker,
- Riccardo Bommarco
Affiliations
- Monique E. Smith
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ecology
- Giulia Vico
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Crop Production Ecology
- Alessio Costa
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Crop Production Ecology
- Timothy Bowles
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
- Amélie C. M. Gaudin
- University of California Davis, Department of Plant Sciences
- Sara Hallin
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology
- Christine A. Watson
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Crop Production Ecology
- Remedios Alarcòn
- Madrid Institute for Rural, Agricultural and Food Research and Development, Agro-environmental Department
- Antonio Berti
- University of Padova, Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment
- Andrzej Blecharczyk
- Poznań University of Life Sciences, Department of Agronomy
- Francisco J. Calderon
- Oregon State University, Columbia Basin Agricultural Research Center
- Steve Culman
- Ohio State University, School of Environment and Natural Resources
- William Deen
- University of Guelph, Department of Plant Agriculture
- Craig F. Drury
- Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Harrow Research and Development Centre
- Axel Garcia y. Garcia
- University of Minnesota, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics at the Southwest Research and Outreach Center
- Andrés García-Díaz
- Madrid Institute for Rural, Agricultural and Food Research and Development, Applied Research Department
- Eva Hernández Plaza
- National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology, Spanish National Research Council (INIA-CSIC), Department of Plant Protection
- Krzysztof Jonczyk
- Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation - State Research Institute, Department of Systems and Economics of Crop Production
- Ortrud Jäck
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Crop Production Ecology
- R. Michael Lehman
- USDA-ARS, North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory
- Francesco Montemurro
- Council for Agricultural Research and Agricultural Economy Analysis, Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment (CREA-AA)
- Francesco Morari
- University of Padova, Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment
- Andrea Onofri
- University of Perugia, Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences
- Shannon L. Osborne
- USDA-ARS, North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory
- José Luis Tenorio Pasamón
- Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, INIA-CSIC, Environment and Agronomy Department
- Boël Sandström
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Agricultural Research for Northern Sweden
- Inés Santín-Montanyá
- Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, INIA-CSIC, Environment and Agronomy Department
- Zuzanna Sawinska
- Poznań University of Life Sciences, Department of Agronomy
- Marty R. Schmer
- USDA-ARS, Agroecosystem Management Research Unit
- Jaroslaw Stalenga
- Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation - State Research Institute, Department of Systems and Economics of Crop Production
- Jeffrey Strock
- University of Minnesota, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate at the Southwest Research and Outreach Center
- Francesco Tei
- University of Perugia, Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences
- Cairistiona F. E. Topp
- Scotland’s Rural College
- Domenico Ventrella
- Council for Agricultural Research and Agricultural Economy Analysis, Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment (CREA-AA)
- Robin L. Walker
- Scotland’s Rural College
- Riccardo Bommarco
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ecology
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00746-0
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 4,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Increasing crop functional richness in rotations can support grain yields more than species diversity in many environments, suggest grain yield data from 32 long-term experiments across Europe and North America.
