Background The potential benefits of intercropping are manifold and have been repeatedly
demonstrated. Intercropping has the potential to create more productive and resilient …

Living mulches are cover crops grown simultaneously with and in close proximity to cash
crops. Advantages of living mulches over dead cover crops may include increased weed …

The extensive utilization of nonbiodegradable plastic agricultural mulch in the past decades
has resulted in severe environmental pollution and soil fertility decline. Biodegradable …

Excess plastic residues in soil lead to soil pollution, vegetation destruction in horticulture
and agriculture. Biodegradable mulch is considered as an ideal alternative to conventional …

Weeds have always been considered an insidious enemy, capable of reducing crop
production. Conversely, the agroecological vision attributes a key role to the spontaneous …

Crop diversification in spatial and temporal patterns can optimize the synchronization of
nutrients plant demand and availability in soils, as plant diversity and soil microbial …

Mycorrhizal symbiosis represents a valuable tool for increasing plant nutrient uptake,
affecting system biodiversity, ecosystem services and productivity. Introduction of …

The integration of Agroecological Service Crops (ASCs) into agroecosystems can provide
several ecological services, such as nutrient cycling and disease and weed management. A …

Biodiversity is intended as the whole of living organisms within an ecosystem, whereby the
ecosystem functioning strictly depends on the complex interaction among its biotic and …

The mycorrhizal fungi are symbiotic organisms able to provide many benefits to crop
production by supplying a set of ecosystem functions. A recent ecological approach based …