"The Nitrogen Solution" with Dr. Christine Jones (Part 3/4)
April 13th 2021
Dr. Christine Jones discusses the Nitrogen problem we face in conventional agriculture. She also answers audience questions for practical applications on how to change.
There have been over 200 scientific articles published from the Jena Biodiversity Experiment.
One of the findings from the Jena research was that high plant diversity with no added N was just as productive as low plant diversity with 200 kgN/ha/yr (roughly equivalent to 200 lbN/acre/yr). Here is the article and the link ......
Weigelt, A., Weisser, W. W., Buchmann, N. and Scherer-Lorenzen, M. (2009). Biodiversity for multifunctional grasslands: equal productivity in high-diversity low-input and low-diversity high-input systems. Biogeosciences, 6: 1695-1706, doi:
The four functional groups used in the Jena Biodiversity Experiment are described in detail in the following publication ...
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