Cover crop mixtures including legume produce ecosystem services of nitrate capture and green manuring: assessment combining experimentation and modelling

Accuracy, robustness and behavior of the STICS soil–crop model for plant, water and nitrogen outputs: Evaluation over a wide range of agro-environmental conditions in France

(2015) Elsa Coucheney et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

Large-scale assessment of optimal emergence and destruction dates for cover crops to reduce nitrate leaching in temperate conditions using the STICS soil–crop model

(2015) Julie Constantin et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

A Functional Characterisation of a Wide Range of Cover Crop Species: Growth and Nitrogen Acquisition Rates, Leaf Traits and Ecological Strategies

(2015) Hélène Tribouillois et al.   PLoS One

Single season effects of mixed-species cover crops on tomato health (cultivar Celebrity) in multi-state field trials

(2014) Carly F. Summers et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Increased Productivity of a Cover Crop Mixture Is Not Associated with Enhanced Agroecosystem Services

(2014) Richard G. Smith et al.   PLoS One

Barley–hairy vetch mixture as cover crop for green manuring and the mitigation of N leaching risk

(2013) Giacomo Tosti et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Sharing N resources in the early growth of rapeseed intercropped with faba bean: does N transfer matter?

(2013) Marie Jamont et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Cover crop growth and impact on N leaching as affected by pre- and postharvest sowing and time of incorporation

(2013) I. K. Thomsen et al.   SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT

Cover Crop Mixtures for the Western Corn Belt: Opportunities for Increased Productivity and Stability

(2012) S. E. Wortman et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

Optimizing Cover Crop Benefits with Diverse Mixtures and an Alternative Termination Method

(2012) Sam E. Wortman et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

Green manuring effect of pure and mixed barley – hairy vetch winter cover crops on maize and processing tomato N nutrition

(2012) Giacomo Tosti et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Nitrogen fixation in annual and perennial legume-grass mixtures across a fertility gradient

(2012) Meagan E. Schipanski et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Long-term nitrogen dynamics in various catch crop scenarios: Test and simulations with STICS model in a temperate climate

(2011) J. Constantin et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Methodological comparison of calibration procedures for durum wheat parameters in the STICS model

(2011) Solenne Guillaume et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

A comparison of commonly used indices for evaluating species interactions and intercrop efficiency: Application to durum wheat–winter pea intercrops

(2011) Laurent Bedoussac et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Using coloured roots to study root interaction and competition in intercropped legumes and non-legumes

(2010) G. Tosti et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Cumulative effects of catch crops on nitrogen uptake, leaching and net mineralization

(2010) Julie Constantin et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Dynamic analysis of competition and complementarity for light and N use to understand the yield and the protein content of a durum wheat–winter pea intercrop

(2010) Laurent Bedoussac et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

The efficiency of a durum wheat-winter pea intercrop to improve yield and wheat grain protein concentration depends on N availability during early growth

(2009) Laurent Bedoussac et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Quantifying and modelling C and N mineralization kinetics of catch crop residues in soil: parameterization of the residue decomposition module of STICS model for mature and non mature residues

(2009) E. Justes et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Growth, composition, biological N2 fixation and nutrient uptake of a leguminous cover crop mixture and the effect of their removal on field nitrogen balances and nitrate leaching risk

(2008) Kurt Möller et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

Effects of different green manures on soil biological properties and maize yield

(2007) M. Tejada et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY