Abstract
Aims
In vineyards, service crops may increase water infiltration and positively contribute to soil water refilling, but may also increase the risk of competition for water with grapevines which could impair grape yield over several years. This study aimed to test the relationships between service crop functional traits and two related services of major interest in viticulture: runoff control and water provisioning.
Methods
We measured the water stock, the cover rate, along with above- and belowground functional markers of 38 plant communities after a winter growing season in an experimental vineyard, to assess relationships between service crop functional markers, runoff control and water provisioning.
Results
Both aboveground and belowground functional markers were significant predictors of service provision at the community level. The plant aboveground dry matter content was positively related to soil water stocks and negatively related to the cover rate of the communities, while the specific leaf area (SLA) was positively related to the cover rate. The rooting depth and morphological root traits (specific root length and very fine root fraction) were negatively related with the soil water stock. Moreover, these results agree with ecological theories about the relationships between plant functional markers, plant ecological strategies and resources use.
Conclusions
The identification of functional markers related to service provision may help us to select species or communities service crops that could perform interesting trade-offs between multiple services due to a suited combination of related markers, and provide insights for plant selection in order to breed plant varieties and cultivars with the aim of providing agroecosystem services.
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This research benefited from financial support for research activities carried out in the FertilCrop project, in the framework of the FP7 ERA-Net program CORE Organic Plus. The authors would like to thank Yvan Bouisson, Clément Énard and Bénédicte Ohl for their work and help for conducting the experiments, from grapevines management to data sampling; We also thank Aurore Martenot for her work, from plant sampling and aboveground trait measurements to first explanatory data analysis. We thank Inti Ganganelli, Nicolas Fleureau and Élise Rivière for their precious help during root trait measurements. Last but not least, we thank Guillaume Fried and Jean Richarte for their precious help for species identification in the experimental field. We also thank the two reviewers who helped us to improve the present article.
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• There is a trade-off between runoff mitigation and water provision in vineyards
• Trait-based approach allows to describe the functional diversity of service crops
• Service crops functional markers are related to runoff mitigation and water provision
• Trait-based approach is powerful to identify service crop functional profiles
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Garcia, L., Metay, A., Kazakou, E. et al. Optimizing the choice of service crops in vineyards to achieve both runoff mitigation and water provisioning for grapevine: a trait-based approach. Plant Soil 452, 87–104 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-020-04543-y
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