Publications by authors named "Martin Potthoff"
Conservation tillage is often discussed as an effective tool to improve the soil quality in agriculture. Four sites across Europe (in Germany, Romania, Spain, and Sweden) were investigated as case studies for country-specific reductions in tillage intensity. Conventional tillage (CT) by mouldboard ploughing was compared with shallow and deep non-inversion minimum tillage (MT) and/or no-tillage (NT).
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- - The study investigates how introducing temporary grassland into annual crop rotations impacts five key soil ecosystem services, including soil structure maintenance, water regulation, biodiversity conservation, pathogen regulation, and forage production and quality.
- - Three different crop rotation schemes were tested over twelve years, varying the percentage of grassland—0%, 50%, and 75%—to observe the effects on soil and ecosystem services.
- - Results indicated that increasing the grassland proportion improved soil structure and biodiversity but did not significantly affect water regulation, pathogen control, or forage production; higher grassland percentages showed stronger positive impacts on soil maintenance and biodiversity.
Transdisciplinary Bioblitz: Rapid biotic and abiotic inventory allows studying environmental changes over 60 years at the Biological Field Station of Paimpont (Brittany, France) and opens new interdisciplinary research opportunities.
Biodivers Data J
March 2020
Background: The Biological Field Station of Paimpont (Station Biologique de Paimpont, SBP), owned by the University of Rennes and located in the Brocéliande Forest of Brittany (France), has been hosting student scientific research and field trips during the last 60 years. The study area of the SBP is a landscape mosaic of 17 ha composed of gorse moors, forests, prairies, ponds and creeks. Land use has evolved over time.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFTillage is known for its adverse effects on soil biota, at least in arable agroecosystems. However, in vineyards effects might differ as tillage is often performed during dry periods or only in every other inter-row allowing species to re-colonise disturbed areas. We examined the response of earthworms (lumbricids), springtails (collembola) and litter decomposition to periodically mechanically disturbed (PMD) and permanently green covered (PGC) vineyard inter-rows and assessed whether site effects are altered by the surrounding landscape.
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