The ESSU concept for designing, modeling and auditing ecosystem service provision in intercropping and agroforestry systems.

Sylvain Rafflegeau, Marie Gosme, Karim Barkaoui, Léo Garcia, Clémentine Allinne, Olivier Deheuvels, Juliette Grimaldi, Patrick Jagoret, Pierre-Éric Lauri, Anne Merot, Aurélie Metay, Francesco Reyes, Stéphane Saj, George Nicolas Curry & Eric Justes

The paper proposes a concept for designing, modeling, monitoring, and auditing desired ecosystem services, in intercropping and agroforestry systems, which the scientists have named ESSU (Ecosystem Services functional Spatial Unit).

Modeling soil‑plant functioning of intercrops using comprehensive and generic formalisms implemented in the STICS model

Rémi Vezy, Sebastian Munz, Noémie Gaudio, Marie Launay, Patrice Lecharpentier, Dominique Ripoche, Eric Justes

In this study, the authors propose a set of simple and generic formalisms for simulating key interactions in bi-specific intercropping systems that can be readily included into existing dynamic crop models.

The acquisition of macro and micronutrients is synergistic in species mixtures: example of mixed crucifer-legume cover crops

Antoine Couëdel, Lionel Alletto and Eric Justes

Species mixtures of crucifer-legume have been shown to effectively take up nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) to decrease losses due to leaching, but their ability to simultaneously take up other key macro- and micronutrients remains unknown. This study assessed the performances of a wide variety of bispecific crucifer-legume mixtures to provide synergetic uptake of multiple nutrients to target nutrient-recycling ecosystem services.

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