Under European conditions, organic agriculture performs better than conventional agriculture with regard to certain parameters: for example, 30 to 100 percent higher microbial activity3 and
a significantly higher biomass (+30 to 40 percent), density (+ 50 to 80 percent) and species diversity of earthworms, a key soil - macro faunal species4.
Not exact matches
The number of cluster roots was
significantly higher in large seedlings, yet
biomass investment in cluster roots was greater for small seedlings.
These figures are
significantly higher compared to the combined
biomass of all vertebrates currently alive.
However, NREL's 80 - percent - by - 2050 renewable energy study, which included
biomass and geothermal, found that total water consumption and withdrawal would decrease
significantly in a future with
high renewables [7].