Absence of a home-field advantage within a short-rotation arable cropping system.

Aims: The home-field advantage (HFA) hypothesis predicts faster decomposition of plant residues in soil compared to soils with different plants (), and has been demonstrated in forest and grassland ecosystems. It remains unclear if this legacy effect applies to crop residue decomposition in arable crop rotations. Such knowledge could improve our understanding of decomposition dynamics in arable soils and may allow optimisation of crop residue amendments in arable systems by cleverly combining crop-residue rotations with crop rotations to increase the amount of residue-derived C persisting in soil.