Yields and resilience outcomes of organic, cover crop, and conventional practices in a Mediterranean climate.

ABSTRACT: Adaptive management practices that maximize yields while improving yield resilience are required in the face of resource variability and climate change. Ecological intensification such as organic farming and cover cropping are lauded in some studies for fostering yield resilience, but subject to criticism in others for their low productivity. We implemented a quantitative framework to assess yield resilience, emphasizing four aspects of yield dynamics: yield, yield stability, yield resistance (i.e., the ability of systems to avoid crop failure under stressful growing conditions), and maximum yield potential. We compared the resilience of maize-tomato rotation systems after 24 years of irrigated organic, cover cropped, and conventional management in a Mediterranean climate, and identified c

SUBMITTER: Li M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6706438 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature