Background The potential benefits of intercropping are manifold and have been repeatedly
demonstrated. Intercropping has the potential to create more productive and resilient …

Intercropping existed early in the evolution of agriculture. However, for several decades, use
of this sustainable cropping system approach remained limited to small operations in …

Background and aims Crop diversity has been repeatedly shown to support multiple
ecosystem functions, both directly and indirectly, driven by interspecific root-root interactions …

Abstract Maize (Zea mays L.)/soybean (Glycine max L.) intercropping has been widely
practiced in China, because of its effectiveness in improving crop yield and nitrogen …

Context Plants can modify their morphological or physiological traits in response to nutrient
availability and to the presence and identity of neighboring individuals. However, few …

Intercropping is a traditional farming system that increases crop diversity to strengthen
agroecosystem functions while decreasing chemical inputs and minimizing negative …

Positive biodiversity–productivity relationships have been found in biodiversity field
experiments of grasslands, forests and natural terrestrial ecosystems, where diversity effects …

It is widely reported that biochar has the benefit of improving water use efficiency (WUE).
However, a lot of researches indicated that the percentage changes in WUE to biochar …

Intercropping studies usually focus on yield advantage and interspecific interactions but few
quantify temporal niche differentiation and its relationship with intercropping yield …

Plant species mixtures improve productivity over monocultures by exploiting species
complementarities for resource capture in time and space. Complementarity results in part …