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Feasibility of Tea/Tree Intercropping Plantations on Soil Ecological Service Function in China

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Title Feasibility of Tea/Tree Intercropping Plantations on Soil Ecological Service Function in China
 
Creator Feng, Y.
Sunderland, T.C.H.
 
Subject intercropping
tea plants
monoculture
 
Description In order to explore whether tea/tree intercropping plantations have positive effects on soil ecosystem services functions, the possible effects of intercropping cultivation of 151 different tea and other species’ intercropping setups were summarized and analyzed in terms of three aspects of soil ecological service functions (supply services, support services, and regulating services). An ArcGIS map was plotted to show the distribution of existing intercropping plantations in China up to June 2021. Furthermore, it was concluded that the benefits of intercropping tea plantations exceeded those of monocropping tea plantations in terms of soil ecosystem service functions, such as water retention capacity, mineral contents, effects on energy transformation, and regulating environmental conditions. Intercropping tea plantations were more sustainable than regular tea plantations because of the different degrees of variability and benefits in all three aspects mentioned above. However, tea and tree intercropping plantations often require careful planning and preliminary experimentation to determine the type of intercropping that will have positive impacts, especially in the long term.
 
Date 2023-06
2023-12-18T06:39:08Z
2023-12-18T06:39:08Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Feng, Y., & Sunderland, T. (2023). Feasibility of Tea/Tree Intercropping Plantations on Soil Ecological Service Function in China. Agronomy, 13(6), 1548. doi: 10.3390/agronomy13061548
2073-4395
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135474
https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13061548
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 1548
 
Source Agronomy