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Paul Mäder
Researcher at Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
Publications - 215
Citations - 16175
Paul Mäder is an academic researcher from Research Institute of Organic Agriculture. The author has contributed to research in topics: Organic farming & Soil quality. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 205 publications receiving 13296 citations. Previous affiliations of Paul Mäder include University of Basel.
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Soil Fertility and Biodiversity in Organic Farming
TL;DR: Results from a 21-year study of agronomic and ecological performance of biodynamic, bioorganic, and conventional farming systems in Central Europe found crop yields to be 20% lower in the organic systems, although input of fertilizer and energy was reduced.
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Soil quality – A critical review
Else K. Bünemann,Giulia Bongiorno,Giulia Bongiorno,Zhanguo Bai,Rachel Creamer,Gerlinde B. De Deyn,Ron G.M. de Goede,Luuk Fleskens,Violette Geissen,Thomas W. Kuyper,Paul Mäder,Mirjam M. Pulleman,Mirjam M. Pulleman,Wijnand Sukkel,Jan Willem van Groenigen,Lijbert Brussaard +15 more
TL;DR: It is found that explicit evaluation of soil quality with respect to specific soil threats, soil functions and ecosystem services has rarely been implemented, and few approaches providing clear interpretation schemes of measured indicator values limits their adoption by land managers as well as policy.
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Distinct soil microbial diversity under long-term organic and conventional farming
TL;DR: The throughput and resolution of the sequencing approach permitted to detect specific structural shifts at the level of individual microbial taxa that harbours a novel potential for managing the soil environment by means of promoting beneficial and suppressing detrimental organisms.
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Impact of land use intensity on the species diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in agroecosystems of Central Europe
TL;DR: The increased land use intensity was correlated with a decrease in AMF species richness and with a preferential selection of species that colonized roots slowly but formed spores rapidly.
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Soil organic matter and biological soil quality indicators after 21 years of organic and conventional farming
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared organic and conventional farming systems at reduced and normal fertilization intensity (0.7 and 1.4 livestock units, LU) in a 7-year crop rotation.