Laura Armengot

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed plant diversity at the centre, edges and boundaries of 29 organic and 29 conventional cereal fields distributed in 15 agrarian localities of the NE Iberian Peninsula.

TL;DR: Overall, the tillage system affected the composition and functional attributes of the weed communities, but both tillage systems can have their downside; however, the crop type was overall more relevant than the Tillage in determining most of the trait values of the Weed communities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared reduced tillage and conventional tillage in a 2002-2011 field experiment under organic management in Switzerland, with a focus on perennials and grasses, and showed that the average abundance of perennials almost doubled over time under reduced tilage, thus changing the community composition between tillage systems.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the productivity and the return on labor, that is the return per working day, of four different cacao production systems: agroforestry and monocultures under organic and conventional management.

TL;DR: Reduced tillage could be useful in organic cropping systems but would require proper management of perennial and monocotyledonous weeds, which are often problematic for annual crops.