Long-term use of cover crops and no-till shift soil microbial community life strategies in agricultural soil.

Reducing tillage and growing cover crops, widely recommended practices for boosting soil health, have major impacts on soil communities. Surprisingly little is known about their impacts on soil microbial functional diversity, and especially so in irrigated Mediterranean ecosystems. In long-term expe...

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Main Authors: Radomir Schmidt, Kelly Gravuer, Anne V Bossange, Jeffrey Mitchell, Kate Scow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5814021?pdf=render