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• Thesis projects Crop landscape ecology

  The crop field is in dynamic interaction with its abiotic and biotic environment and not an island onto itself. Pests (e.g. aphids), natural enemies...

• Intercropping

  We analyse the effects of crop species mixture, agroforestry and variety mixture on plant-plant interactions and crop functioning in order to better...

• Crop landscape ecology

  The crop field is in dynamic interaction with its abiotic and biotic environment and not an island onto itself. Pests (e.g. aphids), natural enemies...

• Thesis projects Intercropping

  We analyse the effects of crop species mixture, agroforestry and variety mixture on plant-plant interactions and crop functioning in order to better...

News

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  Science Journal for Kids article

  15 januari 2024 | In early 2023 we had the happy news that our meta-analysis on the productive performance of intercropping had been published in the Proceedings of the...
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  The productive performance of intercropping

  19 januari 2023 | Chunjie Li and coauthors synthesized results of 226 experiments on yield and resource efficiency in intercropping to establish whether or not...
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  Advances in Intercropping

  25 januari 2021 | A PhD course “Advances in Intercropping” was given online via the graduate school Production Ecology and Resource Conservation at...
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  Intercropping increases agricultural yield while reducing the use of fertilisers

  11 juni 2020 | Intercropping, or the simultaneous cultivation of more than one crop on a single plot of land, can significantly increase the yield, not only of low...