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The EU could mitigate climate change equivalent to 13% of its agricultural greenhouse gas emissions by planting cover crops on bare soil before maize

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PLOS

Cover crops support the climate change mitigation potential of agroecosystems

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Cover crop mix in a field in Germany.

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Credit: Norman Gentsch, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

The EU could mitigate climate change equivalent to 13% of its agricultural greenhouse gas emissions by planting cover crops on bare soil before maize

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0302139

Article Title: Cover crops support the climate change mitigation potential of agroecosystems

Author Countries: Germany

Funding: The research was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the Project "CATCHY", project number: 031B1060C. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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