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Title	Engineering a plant community to deliver multiple ecosystem services
Author	Jonathan Storkey, Thomas Döring, John Baddeley, Rosemary Collins, Stephen Roderick, Hannah Jones, and Christine Watson
Date	2014-10-14
Description	In an agricultural context, an emphasis on food production has often led to a loss of biodiversity to the detriment of other ecosystem services such as the maintenance of soil health and pest regulation. In scenarios where multiple species can be grown together, it may be possible to better balance environmental and agronomic services through the targeted selection of companion species.
Keywords	competition model, cover crops, functional traits, legumes, soil fertility, weeds
URL	http://www.esajournals.org/doi/10.1890/14-1605.1
Photograph	1
ID	7999