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Mixed Cropping Improves Soil Fertility via Enhancing Plant Facilitation in Alpine Artificial Grassland.

Shengjun Ji, Wei Wang, Mohamed S Sheteiwy, Youcai Xiong, Fuying Niu, Huimin Li, Wenying Wang

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Article in Biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Shengjun JiCollege of Geographical Sciences, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810008, China.ORCID 0009-0004-7919-2777
Wei WangState Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.
Mohamed S SheteiwyDepartment of Integrative Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain P.O. Box 15551, United Arab Emirates.
Youcai XiongCollege of Geographical Sciences, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810008, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4394-8331
Fuying NiuCollege of Geographical Sciences, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810008, China.
Huimin LiQinghai Forestry and Grassland Planning Institute, Xining 810008, China.
Wenying WangCollege of Geographical Sciences, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810008, China.

Funding

Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China D23029National Natural Science Foundation of China 2023YFF1304305National Natural Science Foundation of China W2412148Natural Science Foundation of Qinghai Province 2025-ZJ-969T
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

By enhancing plant complementarity and facilitation, mixed cropping may accelerate soil fertility recovery and improve grassland ecosystem resilience. Nevertheless, the impacts of mixed cropping on soil fertility over a single growing season, and the underlying plant-soil interaction mechanisms, remain poorly understood. We hypothesized that mixed grass-legume-moss sowing would increase above- and belowground biomass, aggregate stability (mean weight diameter), and soil organic carbon and total nitrogen relative to monocultures, partly through relief of the nitrogen limitation of the grass by the nitrogen-fixing legume. To test this hypothesis, seven monoculture and mixed-cropping treatments using

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biodiversitymixed croppingplant-plant interactionsoil fertilitysoil physical structure

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PMID42737933
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