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Facilitation and sustainable agriculture: a mechanistic approach to reconciling crop production and conservation
2016-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Food security is currently considered a major global problem. However, increasing intensity of food production in agricultural systems has driven reductions in farmland biodiversity. A major challenge is to enable biodiversity conservation whilst addressing the problem of food security. Here we describe how facilitative plant–plant interactions in crop systems could be used to help strike this balance. An obvious...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0484da8d-377e-5d0a-b57b-7757bc95d2c3
- DOI
- 10.1111/1365-2435.12496