Growing a mix of plants in fields can save farmers money and help the environment

Farmers have increasingly sown a single type of grass in their fields over the past 100 years, and then added chemical ...
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Selection for niche differentiation in plant communities increases biodiversity effects

Figure 2: Stronger biodiversity effects for plants selected in mixtures compared with plants selected in monocultures. Figure 3: Plants selected in mixtures show character displacement between species ...
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Ecosystem function enhanced by combining four functional types of plant species in intensively managed grassland mixtures: a 3-year continental-scale field experiment

1. A coordinated continental-scale field experiment across 31 sites was used to compare the biomass yield of monocultures and four species mixtures associated with intensively managed agricultural ...