Orchard floor management practices that maintain vegetative or biomass groundcover stimulate soil microbial activity and alter soil microbial community composition

By S. Yao, I. Merwin, G. Bird, G. Abawi, J. Thies. Plant and Soil, 2005

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Orchard floor management effects on nitrogen fertility and soil biological activity in a newly established organic apple orchard (2008, background): “Maintenance of a vegetative cover, or “living mulch”, can reduce nutrient loss by acting as a “catch crop,” immobilizing and retaining available soil N, and/or contributing additional N via residue decomposition, if leguminous (Marsh et al. 1996; Sanchez et al. 2003; Stork and Jerie 2003; Yao et al.”
Soil Microbial Community Analysis Using Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (2007, background): “…et al., 2004; Sun et al., 2004), rice paddy agricultural soils (Weber et al., 2001), oil-contaminated paddy soil (Zhang et al., 2005), orchards (Yao et al., 2005), wetlands (Ibekwe et al., 2003; Jaatinen et al., 2005; Wartiainen et al., 2003), industrial sites (Zocca et al., 2004), desert soil…”
Soil fumigation and compost amendment alter soil microbial community composition but do not improve tree growth or yield in an apple replant site (2006, methodology): “Yao et al. / Soil Biology & Biochemistry 38 (2006) 587–599 588”
Long-term Effects of Four Groundcover Management Systems in an Apple Orchard (2011, background): “…are problematic with mulch GMSs. Hardwood bark is inherently resistant to decomposition, locally available in much of the northeastern United States, and persists longer than other biomass mulches such as hay–straw or grass clippings (Goh and Tutua, 2004; Whitford et al., 1989; Yao et al., 2005).”
Long-term orchard groundcover management systems affect soil microbial communities and apple replant disease severity (2008, background): “Previous reports have described in detail how the GMSs in this experiment affected soil microbial communities and soil physical/chemical properties (Oliveira and Merwin 2001; Yao et al. 2005), tree growth and fruit yields (Merwin 2003), and runoff or leaching of agrochemicals at this orchard (Merwin”