TY - JOUR
T1 - Ecosystem Services and Disservices Are Bundled in Simple and Diverse Cover Cropping Systems
AU - Finney, Denise M.
AU - Murrell, Ebony G.
AU - White, Charles M.
AU - Baraibar, Barbara
AU - Barbercheck, Mary E.
AU - Bradley, Brosi A.
AU - Cornelisse, Sarah
AU - Hunter, Mitchell C.
AU - Kaye, Jason P.
AU - Mortensen, David A.
AU - Mullen, Christina A.
AU - Schipanski, Meagan E.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Dayton Spackman, James LaChance, Alan Cook, and the staff of the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center for planting, managing, and assisting in data collection in our experimental plots, D. Wilson of King's Agriseed and our Farmer Advisory Committee for their recommendations on seeding rates and planting practices for cover crop treatments, and numerous undergraduate assistants for assistance with data collection. This project was primarily funded by a grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative (2011-51300-30638). Additional funding was provided by USDA NIFA grant 2012-67012-22889. This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant no. DGE1255832. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Funding Information:
We thank Dayton Spackman, James LaChance, Alan Cook, and the staff of the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center for planting, managing, and assisting in data collection in our experimental plots, D. Wilson of King's Agriseed and our Farmer Advisory Committee for their recommendations on seeding rates and planting practices for cover crop treatments, and numerous undergraduate assistants for assistance with data collection. This project was primarily funded by a grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative (2011‐51300‐30638). Additional funding was provided by USDA NIFA grant 2012‐67012‐22889. This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant no. DGE1255832. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2017 by the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America, Inc.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Core Ideas: Cover crop monocultures and mixtures support multiple ecosystem services. Service interactions can lead to bundling, or co-occurrence, of certain services. Service interactions also create trade-offs among services and disservices. Cover crop mixtures can mitigate disservices to increase multifunctionality. Agroecosystems are increasingly expected to provide multiple ecosystem services. We tested whether and how cover crop selection (identity and number of species) affects provisioning of multiple services (multifunctionality). In a 3-yr study of 10 cover crop treatments and eight ecosystem services, certain services consistently co-occurred. One such service “bundle” included cover crop biomass production, weed suppression, and nitrogen retention. Another set of bundled services included cash crop production, nitrogen supply, and profitability. We also identified trade-offs: as some services increased, other disservices arose, limiting multifunctionality. However, functionally diverse mixtures ameliorated disservices associated with certain monocultures, thereby increasing cover crop multifunctionality.
AB - Core Ideas: Cover crop monocultures and mixtures support multiple ecosystem services. Service interactions can lead to bundling, or co-occurrence, of certain services. Service interactions also create trade-offs among services and disservices. Cover crop mixtures can mitigate disservices to increase multifunctionality. Agroecosystems are increasingly expected to provide multiple ecosystem services. We tested whether and how cover crop selection (identity and number of species) affects provisioning of multiple services (multifunctionality). In a 3-yr study of 10 cover crop treatments and eight ecosystem services, certain services consistently co-occurred. One such service “bundle” included cover crop biomass production, weed suppression, and nitrogen retention. Another set of bundled services included cash crop production, nitrogen supply, and profitability. We also identified trade-offs: as some services increased, other disservices arose, limiting multifunctionality. However, functionally diverse mixtures ameliorated disservices associated with certain monocultures, thereby increasing cover crop multifunctionality.
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U2 - 10.2134/ael2017.09.0033
DO - 10.2134/ael2017.09.0033
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85048390211
SN - 2471-9625
VL - 2
SP - 1
EP - 5
JO - Agricultural and Environmental Letters
JF - Agricultural and Environmental Letters
IS - 1
ER -