Monoculture cropping systems currently dominate temperate agroecosystems. However,
intercropping can provide valuable benefits, including greater yield stability, increased total …

The genus Lotus comprises around 100 annual and perennial species with worldwide
distribution. The relevance of Lotus japonicus as a model plant has been recently …

Meeting the food demand of a global population expected to reach 9.1 billion in 2050 and
over 10 billion by end of the century will require major changes in agricultural production …

A large proportion of the global land surface is covered by pasture. The advent of the
Sentinel satellites program provides free datasets with good spatiotemporal resolution that …

Cereals are high important in feeding ruminant animals for their high dry matter production
and low cost. However, cereals forage is poor in protein content which shows their low …

Increased biodiversity may improve ecosystem services, including herbage yield. A mixture
experiment was carried out at five sites in N orthern E urope and one in C anada to …

Cereal-legumes intercropping is among the most economical and effective agronomic
strategies to boost forage biomass production, nutritional quality and monetary returns. This …

Context The intercropping system has shown great advantages in adverse environments
due to balanced use of diverse resources and promotion of sustainable productivity …

Species diversity can increase natural grasslands productivity but the effect of diversity in
agricultural systems is not well understood. Our objective was to measure the effects of …

Climate change and its effects on grassland productivity vary across Europe. The
Mediterranean and Nordic regions represent the opposite ends of a gradient of changes in …