Multispecies co-culture promotes ecological intensification of vegetable production

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Multispecies co-culture promotes ecological intensification of vegetable production. / Wan, Nian Feng; Su, Honghua; Cavalieri, Andrea; Brack, Benjamin; Wang, Jin Yang; Weiner, Jacob; Fan, Neng Neng; Ji, Xiang Yun; Jiang, Jie Xian.

In: Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 257, 120851, 2020.

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Wan, NF, Su, H, Cavalieri, A, Brack, B, Wang, JY, Weiner, J, Fan, NN, Ji, XY & Jiang, JX 2020, 'Multispecies co-culture promotes ecological intensification of vegetable production', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 257, 120851. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120851

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Wan, N. F., Su, H., Cavalieri, A., Brack, B., Wang, J. Y., Weiner, J., Fan, N. N., Ji, X. Y., & Jiang, J. X. (2020). Multispecies co-culture promotes ecological intensification of vegetable production. Journal of Cleaner Production, 257, [120851]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120851

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Wan NF, Su H, Cavalieri A, Brack B, Wang JY, Weiner J et al. Multispecies co-culture promotes ecological intensification of vegetable production. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2020;257. 120851. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120851

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Wan, Nian Feng ; Su, Honghua ; Cavalieri, Andrea ; Brack, Benjamin ; Wang, Jin Yang ; Weiner, Jacob ; Fan, Neng Neng ; Ji, Xiang Yun ; Jiang, Jie Xian. / Multispecies co-culture promotes ecological intensification of vegetable production. In: Journal of Cleaner Production. 2020 ; Vol. 257.

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title = "Multispecies co-culture promotes ecological intensification of vegetable production",
abstract = "Increasing agricultural biodiversity by diversifying crops or by co-culture of crops and aquatic animals has been widely recognised as a way to promote ecological intensification of crop production and reduce the use of pesticides. However, the potential of multi-trophic-level production systems, such as the co-culture of vegetables, flowers and aquatic animals, has received little attention. We performed a two-year experiment comparing multispecies (cauliflower, taro, flowers and aquatic animals) co-culture, and mono-cauliflower farming practices on the Chongming Eco-island of China. The abundance of herbivorous insects and their predators, pesticide input and cauliflower yield were recorded. The results indicated that multispecies co-culture decreased the abundance of insect herbivores by 19.9–26.0% and thus decreased pesticide use by 22.2–30.0%. Meanwhile, we found that co-culture of crops, flowers and aquatic animals increased the abundance (29.5–34.1%), and species diversity of invertebrate predators (3.3–3.8%), and increased cauliflower yield (6.9–7.5%). There were significant positive relationships between the abundance, species richness (or diversity) of arthropod predators and cauliflower yield. Multispecies co-culture has great potential to promote ecological intensification of vegetable production and the associated ecosystem services.",
keywords = "Arthropod predator, Biodiversity, Chlorantraniliprole suspension concentrate, Chongming island, Flower strip, Insect herbivore, Pesticide reduction",
author = "Wan, {Nian Feng} and Honghua Su and Andrea Cavalieri and Benjamin Brack and Wang, {Jin Yang} and Jacob Weiner and Fan, {Neng Neng} and Ji, {Xiang Yun} and Jiang, {Jie Xian}",
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AU - Cavalieri, Andrea

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AU - Wang, Jin Yang

AU - Weiner, Jacob

AU - Fan, Neng Neng

AU - Ji, Xiang Yun

AU - Jiang, Jie Xian

PY - 2020

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N2 - Increasing agricultural biodiversity by diversifying crops or by co-culture of crops and aquatic animals has been widely recognised as a way to promote ecological intensification of crop production and reduce the use of pesticides. However, the potential of multi-trophic-level production systems, such as the co-culture of vegetables, flowers and aquatic animals, has received little attention. We performed a two-year experiment comparing multispecies (cauliflower, taro, flowers and aquatic animals) co-culture, and mono-cauliflower farming practices on the Chongming Eco-island of China. The abundance of herbivorous insects and their predators, pesticide input and cauliflower yield were recorded. The results indicated that multispecies co-culture decreased the abundance of insect herbivores by 19.9–26.0% and thus decreased pesticide use by 22.2–30.0%. Meanwhile, we found that co-culture of crops, flowers and aquatic animals increased the abundance (29.5–34.1%), and species diversity of invertebrate predators (3.3–3.8%), and increased cauliflower yield (6.9–7.5%). There were significant positive relationships between the abundance, species richness (or diversity) of arthropod predators and cauliflower yield. Multispecies co-culture has great potential to promote ecological intensification of vegetable production and the associated ecosystem services.

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KW - Biodiversity

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KW - Chongming island

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