Does agricultural crop diversity enhance soil microbial biomass and organic matter dynamics? A meta-analysis.

By Marshall D. McDaniel, L. Tiemann, A. S. Grandy. Ecological Applications, 2014

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Subfields: Ecology, Plant Science, Soil Science

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Crop rotational diversity enhances belowground communities and functions in an agroecosystem. (2015, methodology): “%) compared to monocultures (McDaniel et al. 2014b; and unpublished data).”
Grain legume-based rotations managed under conventional tillage need cover crops to mitigate soil organic matter losses (2016, neutral): “Recent meta-analyses have summarized the impact of cropping intensification and different management practices such as tillage and fertilization on soil organic matter (e.g. Luo et al., 2010; Maillard and Angers, 2014; McDaniel et al., 2014).”
An Underground Revolution: Biodiversity and Soil Ecological Engineering for Agricultural Sustainability. (2016, background): “Agricultural management practices, such as intensive soil tillage, repeated and intensive fertilization, application of pesticides, and low plant diversity, have been shown to have adverse effects on several groups of soil organisms, including AMF [4], earthworms [51], and microarthropods [52], and ”
Organic versus Conventional Cropping Sustainability: A Comparative System Analysis (2018, background): “, 2014 [28] Adding at least one or more crops in rotation to a monoculture significantly improved both microbial biomass C and N, 21% and 26%, respectively.”
Cover cropping and no-till increase diversity and symbiotroph:saprotroph ratios of soil fungal communities (2019, background): “8% respectively), likely due to the longer period under plant cover resulting in greater root inputs (McDaniel et al., 2014).”
A meta-analysis of the effect of organic and mineral fertilizers on soil microbial diversity (2020, background): “Other meta-analyses have demonstrated that microbial diversity (Venter et al., 2016) and biomass (McDaniel et al., 2014) increase in crop rotations compared with monocultures.”
Crop rotational diversity increases disease suppressive capacity of soil microbiomes (2018, methodology): “Soil properties like total C, total N, pH, bulk density, and porosity have all been shown to increase with cover crops (Bullock 1992, Liebman and Dyck 1993, Tilman et al. 2002, McDaniel et al. 2014b, Tiemann et al. 2015).”
The impact of crop rotation on soil microbial diversity: A meta-analysis (2016, methodology): “Many studies show that incorporating cover crops into rotations can boost soil C and thus support greater microbial abundance and diversity (McDaniel et al., 2014).”