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Management of service crops for the provision of ecosystem services in vineyards: A review

Garcia, Léo; Celette, Florian; Gary, Christian; Ripoche, Aude; Valdés-Gómez, Hector and Metay, Aurélie (2018) Management of service crops for the provision of ecosystem services in vineyards: A review. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 251, pp. 158-170.

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Summary

Service crops are crops grown with the aim of providing non-marketed ecosystem services, i.e. differing from food, fiber and fuel production. Vineyard soils face various agronomic issues such as poor organic carbon levels, erosion, fertility losses, and numerous studies have highlighted the ability of service crops to address these issues. In addition to their ability to increase soil organic matter and fertility, and reduce runoff and erosion processes, service crops provide a large variety of ecosystem services in vineyards such as weed control, pest and disease regulation, water supply, water purification, improvement of field trafficability and maintenance of soil biodiversity. However, associating service crops with grapevines may also generate disservices and impair grape production: competition for soil resources with the grapevine is often highlighted to reject such association. Consequently, vinegrowers have to find a balance between services and disservices, depending on local soil and climate conditions, on their objectives of grape production and on the nature and temporality of the ecosystem services they expect during the grapevine cycle. This study proposes a review of the services and disservices provided by service crops in vineyards, and a framework for their management. Vinegrowers’ production objectives and pedoclimatic constraints form the preliminary stage to consider before defining a strategy of service crop management. This strategy assembles management options such as the choice of species, its spatial distribution within the vineyard, the timing of its installation, maintenance and destruction. These management options, defined for both annual and long-term time scales, form action levers which may impact cropping system functioning. Finally, we underline the importance of implementing an adaptive strategy at the seasonal time scale. Such tactical management allows adapting the cropping system to observed climate and state of the biophysical system during the grapevine cycle, in order to provide targeted services and achieve satisfactory production objectives.


EPrint Type:Journal paper
Keywords:Core Organic Plus, FertilCrop, soil fertility, Cover crop, Sustainable viticulture, Agroecology, Ecosystem services, Trade-off management
Subjects: Crop husbandry > Crop combinations and interactions
Environmental aspects > Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Crop husbandry > Weed management
Crop husbandry > Production systems > Fruit and berries > Viticulture
Research affiliation: European Union > CORE Organic Plus > FertilCrop
France > CIRAD - Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement
France > Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques
France > INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
France > ISARA - Institut supérieure d’agriculture Lyon
ISSN:0167-8809
DOI:10.1016/j.agee.2017.09.030
Related Links:http://www.fertilcrop.net/fc-home-news.html
Deposited By: Gary, Dr Christian
ID Code:32204
Deposited On:18 Oct 2017 08:50
Last Modified:18 Oct 2017 08:50
Document Language:English
Status:Published
Refereed:Peer-reviewed and accepted

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