Summary
Agricultural intensification has substantially reduced soil biodiversity as well as agroecosystem functions and services. Sustainable agroecosystems that increase crop diversity through rotation may promote soil biodiversity and above-belowground interactions. Studying ecological networks, soil communities, and abiotic impacts simultaneously increases our understanding of complex C cycling encompassing all components of a given system. Higher rotational diversity enhances primary productivity by increasing the photosynthetic intensity of crops in rotation relative to systems where a given crop is grown continuously. In addition, greater temporal crop diversity stimulates above-belowground interactions, which affects carbon allocation, rhizodeposition, and the growth of rhizobiomes. Stronge
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