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Biodiversity effects on yield and unsown species invasion in a temperate forage ecosystem (2009) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2707887/ https:
by animal_spirits 4y ago
Biodiversity effects on yield and unsown species invasion in a temperate forage ecosystem (2009)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2707887/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2707887/
Grass-legume mixtures sustain strong yield advantage over monocultures under cool maritime growing conditions over a period of 5 years
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29790908/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29790908/
Biodiversity loss in Latin American coffee landscapes: review of the evidence on ants, birds, and trees (2008)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18759777/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18759777/
Temporal changes in genetic diversity and forage yield of perennial ryegrass in monoculture and in combination with red clover in swards (2018)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30408053/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30408053/
- jebus989 4y agoThese are indeed links but quite random ones. Mostly they are reporting that growing two things together in a field can give higher yields than growing a single thing. None seem to be related to GMOs, which could obviously also be grown with complimentary species to increase yield.
- animal_spirits 4y agoCorrect, these are papers on monocultures vs non monocultures. But GMOs are inclined to be grown in monocultures.
- jebus989 4y agoAll crops are inclined to be grown in monocultures. That's because even if you'd get more yield pairing with other species — as in these studies — pragmatically the time and cost of sowing, harvesting and separating multiple species outweighs the theoretical yield gain per unit area of a monocrop.
- WithinReason 4y agoAll this seems to be about agriculture in general, not GMO