Plant diversity effects on forage quality, yield and revenues of semi-natural grasslands.
Journal
Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
07 02 2020
07 02 2020
Historique:
received:
29
03
2019
accepted:
07
01
2020
entrez:
9
2
2020
pubmed:
9
2
2020
medline:
19
5
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
In agricultural settings, plant diversity is often associated with low biomass yield and forage quality, while biodiversity experiments typically find the opposite. We address this controversy by assessing, over 1 year, plant diversity effects on biomass yield, forage quality (i.e. nutritive values), quality-adjusted yield (biomass yield × forage quality), and revenues across different management intensities (extensive to intensive) on subplots of a large-scale grassland biodiversity experiment. Plant diversity substantially increased quality-adjusted yield and revenues. These findings hold for a wide range of management intensities, i.e., fertilization levels and cutting frequencies, in semi-natural grasslands. Plant diversity was an important production factor independent of management intensity, as it enhanced quality-adjusted yield and revenues similarly to increasing fertilization and cutting frequency. Consequently, maintaining and reestablishing plant diversity could be a way to sustainably manage temperate grasslands.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32034149
doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-14541-4
pii: 10.1038/s41467-020-14541-4
pmc: PMC7005841
doi:
Substances chimiques
Fertilizers
0
Nitrogen
N762921K75
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
768Commentaires et corrections
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