A5018750023- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Energy, Environment, Agriculture Analysis
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Forest Management and Policy
- Weed Control and Herbicide Applications
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Cooperative Studies and Economics
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
- Plant and animal studies
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
Wageningen University & Research
2021-2025
Field Crops Research Institute
2025
For decades, conservation tillage has been promoted as a measure to increase carbon stocks in arable soils. Since organic farming improves soil quality and storage, reduced under conditions may further enhance this potential. Therefore, we assessed (SOC) of compared with mouldboard ploughing nine field trials France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland same sampling analytical protocol. We sampled cores until depth 100 cm determine that are relevant for climate change mitigation but often...
Diversified cropping systems and fertilization strategies were proposed to enhance the abundance diversity of soil microbiome, thereby stabilizing their beneficial services for maintaining fertility supporting plant growth. Here, we assessed across three different long-term field experiments in Europe (Netherlands, Belgium, Northern Germany) whether diversified also affect functional gene abundance. Soil DNA was analyzed by quantitative PCR quantifying bacteria, archaea fungi as well genes...
Global biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, with agriculture as a major driver. There mounting evidence that intercropping can increase insect while maintaining or increasing yield. Yet, often considered impractical for mechanized farming systems. Strip cropping pioneered by Dutch farmers it compatible standard farm machinery. Here, we use ground beetle data from four experimental locations across years of measurements because these are good agrobiodiversity indicators and...
Global biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, with agriculture as a major driver. There mounting evidence that intercropping can increase insect while maintaining or increasing yield. Yet, often considered impractical for mechanized farming systems. Strip cropping pioneered by Dutch farmers it compatible standard farm machinery. Here, we use ground beetle data from four experimental locations across years of measurements because these are good agrobiodiversity indicators and...
Loss of arthropod biodiversity can impair the provision ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes. Crop diversification strategies offer possibility to support communities without putting aside land as conservation areas. Within-field crop measures, such strip cropping and mixtures, may provide arthropods with continuity diversity food, shelter habitat at fine spatial temporal resolutions. However, it is unclear how plant species within strips influences aerial weed commercially sized...
While large-scale agriculture is an important driver of biodiversity loss, diversified agricultural cropping systems may have potential to support farmland biodiversity. Strip a form crop diversification in which strips are alternated the same field and thereby increasing in-field heterogeneity edge-density while using existing farm machinery. Although strip provide more diversity habitat, food, shelter at small spatial scales, it still unknown how arthropod communities respond variety...
Abstract Global biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, with agriculture as a major driver. There mounting evidence that intercropping can increase insect while maintaining or increasing yield. Yet, often considered impractical for mechanized farming systems. Strip cropping pioneered by Dutch farmers it compatible standard farm machinery. Here, we use ground beetle data from four experimental locations across years of measurements because these are good agrobiodiversity...