Increasing plant diversity in agricultural grasslands boosts yields, reducing reliance on fertiliser

LegacyNet, a partner project of LegumeLegacy, had its first major paper published in the leading journal Science. A key result from this paper titled Multispecies grasslands produce more yield from lower nitrogen inputs across a climatic gradient is that multispecies mixtures can produce more yield with less synthetic nitrogen fertiliser. You can read the story in full in Science and watch the summary of the paper here:

Preprint: Main text and Supplementary materials.

Authors who are part of the LegumeLegacy project include: John A. Finn, Carsten S. Malisch, Matthias Suter, Marie-Noëlle Thivierge, Barbara Golińska, Nyncke J. Hoekstra, Olivier Huguenin-Elie, Andreas Lüscher, Christopher K. Reynolds, and Caroline Brophy.