Zavaleta and two ecologists who recently received Ph.D. s from UCSC illustrate the importance of landscape diversity in their article «Several scales of bioversity affect ecosystem multifunctionality» published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (sciencedaily.com)
«However, considerable research is needed to identify the functional traits that shape cover - crop community dynamics and to depict trade - offs among services in multifunctionality metrics.» (sciencedaily.com)
«In a corn production system, simply increasing cover - crop species richness will have a small impact on agroecosystem services, but designing mixtures that maximize functional diversity may lead to agroecosystems with greater multifunctionality.» (sciencedaily.com)