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RESEARCH ARTICLE | Grassland carbon-water cycling is minimally impacted by a photovoltaic array
New paper on how agrivoltaic systems ( photovoltaic arrays combined with crop production ) can serve as a scalable way to expand solar energy production while maintaining ecosystem function in managed grasslands , especially in climates where water is more limiting than light .
Communications Earth & Environment , 4:238 ( 2023 ) Read this article : https :// doi . org / 10.1038 / s43247-023-00904-4
RESEARCH ARTICLE | Soil organic carbon stocks potentially at risk of decline with organic farming expansion
Research looking at what the conversion of conventional to organic farming will have on soil carbon . A spatially explicit biogeochemical model showed that the complete conversion of global cropland to organic farming without the use of cover crops and plant residue will result in a decline in soil organic carbon stocks by 9 %. Besides these estimates , their results found that additional cropping practices , such as cover cropping could maintain or increase SOC stocks in organic systems .
Nature Climate Change ( 2023 ) Read this article : https :// doi . org / 10.1038 / s41558-023-01721-5
AJRFS | Read our latest articles from the African Journal of Range & Forage Science :
• Seasonal distribution of livestock in Samburu county , northern Kenya : a response to variable pasture and water in semi-arid rangelands
• The recent fire regimes of Luengue-Luiana and Mavinga national parks , Angola
• Biostimulant effects on the herbage yield and nutritive composition of a mixed ryegrass – clover pasture
• Drought release and post-drought changes in herbaceous composition and diversity in two land uses subjected to selective bush control in a semi-arid Kalahari savanna
35 Grassroots Vol 23 No 2 July 2023