Publications

Schön J., Gentsch N., Breunig P. (2024.0). Cover crops support the climate change mitigation potential of agroecosystems. PLOS ONE, 19(5), e0302139. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0302139

Cover crops have the potential to mitigate climate change by reducing negative impacts of agriculture on ecosystems. This study is first to quantify the net climate change mitigation impact of cover crops including land-use effects. A systematic literature and data review was conducted to identify m…

Gentsch N., Riechers F., Boy J., Schweneker D., Feuerstein U., Heuermann D., Guggenberger G. (2024.0). Cover crops improve soil structure and change organic carbon distribution in macroaggregate fractions. SOIL, 10(1), 139-150. doi:10.5194/soil-10-139-2024

Abstract. Soil structure is sensitive to intensive soil management. It can be ameliorated by a reduction in soil cultivation and stimulation of plant and microbial mediators for aggregate formation, with the latter being a prerequisite and measure for soil quality. Cover crops (CCs) are part of an i…

Gentsch, N., Heuermann, D., Kümmerer, R., Reinhold-Hurek, B., Schön, J., Westerschulte, M. (2024). Zwischenfrüchte. Theorie trifft Praxis. DLG-Mitteilungen, 12th January 2024(), .

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