Berkeley Agroecology Lab
@bowleslab
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Berkeley Agroecology Lab @ESPM_berkeley. Our work focuses on #soilhealth, ecosystem services, rhizosphere ecology & #climatechange mitigation & adaptation
University of California Berkeley
Joined July 2018
And thank you to the @OrganicCenter for funding! We need more studies on cover cropping in organic systems.
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Thanks especially to the first author, Isaac, who stuck with this study tenaciously during the pandemic after he finished his undergraduate senior thesis in our lab in 2019.
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Our study also triangulates evidence for soil carbon supporting yield increases from other studies led by @eeoldfield, @wooddecomp and others, and addresses some of the challenging issues of endogeneity they bring up.
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But our comprehensive meta-analysis shows that while reduced yields from cover cropping can occur, most experimental studies do not show yield reductions.
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Other studies ( have argued yield decreases from cover crops will reduce climate benefits from land-use spillovers.
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Nature Sustainability - Domestic strategies to increase carbon stocks in agricultural soils can lead to spillover effects in countries with less stringent policies. Thinking beyond domestic policy...
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Legume cover crops led to the largest yield and soil carbon increases, +24.3% and +1.5 g SOC per g of soil, respectively.
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We also found that "Increases in SOC directly increased crop yields in soils with initial SOC concentrations below 11.6 g kg−1". In other words, we found a direct, positive link between changes in soil carbon and changes in crop yield, but only in low carbon soils.
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We found that cover cropping increases crop yields and soil carbon - together, in the same place - ~60% of the time across 434 paired observations from five continents. Tradeoffs occurred in ~33% of cases.
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Our paper on how #covercrops jointly affect soil carbon and crop yields is out in @naturesustainab! First authored by former undergraduate in our lab, Isaac Vendig, along with @soilsandbees @KenzoEsquivel @lcponisio @allegra_mayer & Gisel De La Cerda.
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Nature Sustainability - A global meta-analysis examines concurrent soil organic carbon (SOC) and yield responses—including their direct connection—to cover cropping and suggests that...
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Join us for a 3-yr #postdoc position ($65-76k/yr) applying environmental statistics and data science to agroecological research on diversified farming systems in @ESPM_Berkeley with us and Perry de Valpine. Apply #postdocjobs.
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RT @saryace: Our paper "How does building healthy soils impact sustainable use of water resources in irrigated agriculture?" is out !!! htt….
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More details and the online application can be found here (. Deadline to apply is July 28, 2022.
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The University of California Organic Agriculture Institute and Small Farms Network are currently recruiting TWO Academic Coordinators to assist with the development of a research and extension program focused on organic production systems in California.
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On this #EarthDay2022 let's "shift our gaze from the brilliant stars above to the humble ground below" - thanks to @The_Soil_Life for reminding us that #Soil is Alive and Soil is Life!.
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We are proud too! What a rich interdisciplinary collaboration looking at how tipping points in adoption patterns of diversified farming systems emerge: farmers make forward looking decisions but ecosystems can be slow to respond.
Proud to be part of this collaboration!
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RT @ElissaOlimpi: Our new paper out today in @JAppliedEcology suggests that conserving habitat around farms can support bird conservation,….
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Though growers are often pressured to remove non-crop habitat to reduce food-safety risks, our work suggests that conserving habitat can support bird conservation, mitigate food-safety risks and...
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RT @ESPM_Berkeley: A new tool created by ESPM faculty & students aims to support instructors in developing #anti-racist approaches to cours….
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The Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management is home to multidisciplinary research programs that recognize the urgency of the challenges—and the enormous opportunities—that may...
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RT @NewPhyt: Water stress and disruption of mycorrhizas induce parallel shifts in phyllosphere microbiome composition @DebrayReena @yvonne….
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RT @calclimateag: Check out the #HealthySoils progress with @famfarms @bowleslab #notill project #HealthySoilsWeek2021 #HSW21 . https://t.co….
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Since 2017, CAFF’s Ecological Farming team has been conducting an on-farm demonstration project in collaboration with California no-till farmers to
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Congrats @soilsandbees for your paper on the list!!.
Best papers of 2021 in ecology and evolutionary biology (and some related fields), according to members of Mordecai (@morde), Peay (@mykophile), and Fukami labs at @Stanford.
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