Plant Species Diversity and Management of Temperate Forage and Grazing Land Ecosystems

By M. Sanderson, R. Skinner, D. Barker, G. Edwards, B. Tracy, D. Wedin. 2004

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Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Forestry, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Renewable Fuel Standard: Potential Economic and Environmental Effects of U.S. Biofuel Policy (2012, background): “However, native grass mixtures might sustain economic harvests of biomass without loss of environmental benefits in particular locations (Sanderson et al., 2004; De Haan et al., 2010).”
Root depth distribution and the diversity–productivity relationship in a long‐term grassland experiment (2013, background): “Yet, because the most diverse plots contained species that were not present in any replicate of lower diversity plots, the apparent richness effect is difficult to evaluate (Sanderson et al. 2004).”
Forage Mixture Productivity and Botanical Composition in Pastures Grazed by Dairy Cattle (2005, background): “…birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus L.), and ural grasslands include complementarity of resource use,chicory], and nine species [the six-species mixture plus white clover, facilitation, or a sampling effect (Sanderson et al., 2004).alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.), and bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.)].”
Crop Species Diversity Affects Productivity and Weed Suppression in Perennial Polycultures under Two Management Strategies (2008, background): “A review of the literature on forage mixture experiments shows that productivity can be maximized at either low or high diversity, but complex mixtures (i.e., mixtures with more than two species) can maximize more ecosystem functions at the same time, e.g., temporal distribution of production, persi”
Ecosystem function enhanced by combining four functional types of plant species in intensively managed grassland mixtures: a 3‐year continental‐scale field experiment (2013, background): “In agronomic grasslands, grasses have an excellent ability to acquire and convert available resources (including nitrogen transferred from legumes) into highquality forage (Sanderson et al. 2004; Nyfeler et al. 2011).”
Biodiversity for multifunctional grasslands: equal productivity in high-diversity low-input and low-diversity high-input systems (2009, background): “If these results were also valid under nutrient-rich conditions, management for increased species diversity would be an ecological approach to enhancing the multifunctionality of grasslands (Sanderson et al., 2004; Hector and Loreau, 2005; Hooper et al., 2005) and could even provide additional benef”
Forage herbs improve mineral composition of grassland herbage (2011, background): “The complexity of grassland management increases as the complexity of plant species diversity increases from grass monocultures to grass–legume mixtures and to grass–legume–herb mixtures (Sanderson et al., 2004).”