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URPP Global Change and Biodiversity

Plant communities produce greater yield than monocultures

Diverse plant communities are more successful and enable higher crop yields than pure monocultures, a European research team headed by ecologists from the URPP Global Change and Biodiversity, University of Zurich has discovered.

A new study carried out by Debra Zuppinger-Dingley et al. reveals that in grassland plants the yields of diverse plant communities are larger than those of monocultures.read more here

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