Using aquatic animals as partners to increase yield and maintain soil nitrogen in the paddy ecosystems
Whether species coculture can overcome the shortcomings of crop monoculture requires additional study. Here, we show how aquatic animals (i.e. carp, crabs, and softshell turtles) benefit paddy ecosystems when cocultured with rice. Three separate field experiments and three separate mesocosm experime...
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| author | Guo, Liang Zhao, Lufeng Ye, Junlong Ji, Zijun Tang, Jian-Jun Bai, Keyu Zheng, Sijun Hu, Liangliang Chen, Xin |
| author_browse | Bai, Keyu Chen, Xin Guo, Liang Hu, Liangliang Ji, Zijun Tang, Jian-Jun Ye, Junlong Zhao, Lufeng Zheng, Sijun |
| author_facet | Guo, Liang Zhao, Lufeng Ye, Junlong Ji, Zijun Tang, Jian-Jun Bai, Keyu Zheng, Sijun Hu, Liangliang Chen, Xin |
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| description | Whether species coculture can overcome the shortcomings of crop monoculture requires additional study. Here, we show how aquatic animals (i.e. carp, crabs, and softshell turtles) benefit paddy ecosystems when cocultured with rice. Three separate field experiments and three separate mesocosm experiments were conducted. Each experiment included a rice monoculture (RM) treatment and a rice-aquatic animal (RA) coculture treatment; RA included feed addition for aquatic animals. In the field experiments, rice yield was higher with RA than with RM, and RA also produced aquatic animal yields that averaged 0.52–2.57 t ha-1. Compared to their corresponding RMs, the three RAs had significantly higher apparent nitrogen (N)-use efficiency and lower weed infestation, while soil N contents were stable over time. Dietary reconstruction analysis based on 13C and 15N showed that 16.0–50.2% of aquatic animal foods were from naturally occurring organisms in the rice fields. Stable-isotope-labeling (13C) in the field experiments indicated that the organic matter decomposition rate was greater with RA than with RM. Isotope 15N labeling in the mesocosm experiments indicated that rice used 13.0–35.1% of the aquatic animal feed-N. All these results suggest that rice-aquatic animal coculture increases food production, increases N-use efficiency, and maintains soil N content by reducing weeds and promoting decomposition and complementary N use. Our study supports the view that adding species to monocultures may enhance agroecosystem functions. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1304732025-11-11T18:49:06Z Using aquatic animals as partners to increase yield and maintain soil nitrogen in the paddy ecosystems Guo, Liang Zhao, Lufeng Ye, Junlong Ji, Zijun Tang, Jian-Jun Bai, Keyu Zheng, Sijun Hu, Liangliang Chen, Xin aquatic animals monoculture agroecosystems food production Whether species coculture can overcome the shortcomings of crop monoculture requires additional study. Here, we show how aquatic animals (i.e. carp, crabs, and softshell turtles) benefit paddy ecosystems when cocultured with rice. Three separate field experiments and three separate mesocosm experiments were conducted. Each experiment included a rice monoculture (RM) treatment and a rice-aquatic animal (RA) coculture treatment; RA included feed addition for aquatic animals. In the field experiments, rice yield was higher with RA than with RM, and RA also produced aquatic animal yields that averaged 0.52–2.57 t ha-1. Compared to their corresponding RMs, the three RAs had significantly higher apparent nitrogen (N)-use efficiency and lower weed infestation, while soil N contents were stable over time. Dietary reconstruction analysis based on 13C and 15N showed that 16.0–50.2% of aquatic animal foods were from naturally occurring organisms in the rice fields. Stable-isotope-labeling (13C) in the field experiments indicated that the organic matter decomposition rate was greater with RA than with RM. Isotope 15N labeling in the mesocosm experiments indicated that rice used 13.0–35.1% of the aquatic animal feed-N. All these results suggest that rice-aquatic animal coculture increases food production, increases N-use efficiency, and maintains soil N content by reducing weeds and promoting decomposition and complementary N use. Our study supports the view that adding species to monocultures may enhance agroecosystem functions. 2022-02-22 2023-05-23T13:12:13Z 2023-05-23T13:12:13Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/130473 en Open Access application/pdf ELIFE SCIENCES PUBL LTD Guo, L.; Zhao, L.; Ye, J.; Ji, Z.; Tang, J.-J.; Bai, K.; Zheng, S.; Hu, L.; Chen, X. (2022) Using aquatic animals as partners to increase yield and maintain soil nitrogen in the paddy ecosystems. eLife 11:e73869 30 p. ISSN: 2050-084X |
| spellingShingle | aquatic animals monoculture agroecosystems food production Guo, Liang Zhao, Lufeng Ye, Junlong Ji, Zijun Tang, Jian-Jun Bai, Keyu Zheng, Sijun Hu, Liangliang Chen, Xin Using aquatic animals as partners to increase yield and maintain soil nitrogen in the paddy ecosystems |
| title | Using aquatic animals as partners to increase yield and maintain soil nitrogen in the paddy ecosystems |
| title_full | Using aquatic animals as partners to increase yield and maintain soil nitrogen in the paddy ecosystems |
| title_fullStr | Using aquatic animals as partners to increase yield and maintain soil nitrogen in the paddy ecosystems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using aquatic animals as partners to increase yield and maintain soil nitrogen in the paddy ecosystems |
| title_short | Using aquatic animals as partners to increase yield and maintain soil nitrogen in the paddy ecosystems |
| title_sort | using aquatic animals as partners to increase yield and maintain soil nitrogen in the paddy ecosystems |
| topic | aquatic animals monoculture agroecosystems food production |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/130473 |
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