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Benefits of shrub willow production on soil chemical, physical, and biological properties
Influence of Shrub Willow Buffers Strategically Integrated in an Illinois Corn-Soybean Field on Soil Health and Microbial Community Composition
  • Zumpf, C., J. Cacho, N. Grasse, J. Quinn, J. Hampton-Marcell, A. Armstrong, P. Campbell, M.C. Negri, and D.K. Lee, 2021, Influence of Shrub Willow Buffers Strategically Integrated in an Illinois Corn-Soybean Field on Soil Health and Microbial Community Composition: Science of the Total Environment, volume 772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145674.
  • Studied the ecosystem services (ES) from shrub willow buffers in a row crop system.
  • Soil health and crop productivity of willow and grain crops were evaluated.
  • Landscape position and crop type influenced the soil microbial community present.
  • Microbial taxa were highly correlated with soil chemical parameters, especially pH.
  • Landscape position influenced the ES provision by willow buffers.
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The Environmental Science Division (EVS) at Argonne National Laboratory conducts research on environmental systems to understand how system components could change as a result of energy activities, nationally important emerging technologies, and major new federal policies and programs. Our core studies focus on land and renewable resources, surface and subsurface hydrology, coupled ecosystem processes, radiation and chemical risk management, environmental restoration, atmospheric processes and measurement, and climate research. Our work provides the nation with rigorous science and engineering analyses about the present and possible future state of the environment.

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The research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO). Argonne National Laboratory is managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC, for the U.S. DOE under contract DE–AC02–06CH11357.

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