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2023
The Influence of nitrogen applications and low rainfall conditions on yield of mixed grass-legume grassland for 2 years
The Influence of nitrogen applications and low rainfall conditions on yield of mixed grass-legume grassland for 2 years
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Mixed-species grassland containing legumes were suggested to increase yield compared to monocultures. Furthermore, some legumes were suggested to be able to sustain growth, even under drought conditions. The first aim of the current study was to measure if multispecies grassland with legumes is also more productive when their N input due to symbiotic N2 fixation is taken into account. Our second aim was to determine the benefit of grass–legume mixtures in terms of dry matter production under naturally occurring drought conditions. Mixed-species grasslands, consisting of monocultures and variable mixtures of (a) Trifolium pratense, (b) Trifolium. repens, (c) Lolium perenne, and (d) a mixture of drought-tolerant grasses (GSWT based), were assessed for their dry matter production over two years with contrasting weather patterns. The legume–grass seeding mixtures received either a fixed (180 kg N ha−1) or adapted N-fertilizer application (0–180 kg N ha−1), with the latter taking the assumed symbiotic N2 fixation by legumes into account. Mixed-species grassland showed improved yield compared to monocultures both in comparably humid and drought-affected years. The benefits of multispecies grass–legume mixtures were considerably more obvious under a fixed but still measurable under an adapted N-fertilizer regime. The species diversity effect appears to be significantly dependent on the additional N supply enabled by legumes’ symbiotic N2-fixation. Legumes and drought-tolerant grasses yielded equally well under drought conditions, although legumes showed major advantages during moderate drought and humid conditions. White and red clover, although both legumes, differed significantly in their persistence under elevated-N and their dry matter production under low-N fertilizer application, but were equal in their tolerance towards drought.
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Nitrogen, 4 (2023), 2, 194-208.
https://doi.org/10.3390/nitrogen4020013.
ISSN: 2504-3129
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@article{Weggler2023,
url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/16329},
doi = {10.3390/nitrogen4020013},
author = {Weggler, Karin and Elsäßer, Martin},
title = {The Influence of nitrogen applications and low rainfall conditions on yield of mixed grass-legume grassland for 2 years},
journal = {Nitrogen},
year = {2023},
volume = {4},
number = {2},
}