%L orgprints31530 %E Sebastian Wolfrum %E Hauke Heuwinkel %E Hans Jürgen Reents %E Klaus Wiesinger %E Kurt-Jürgen Hülsbergen %A Jörg Peter Baresel %A M. Köckeis %A J. Weiner %J Ökologischen Landbau weiterdenken: Verantwortung übernhemen, Vertrauen stärken %X The success of the establishment of living mulch systems in cereals depends, among other factors, on the spacial seed arrangement of the main crop and the associated crop as well as on the nitrogen availability. A series of experiments with three different types of seed arrangement has been performed in southern Germany and central Italy in order to assess the role of this factor using model systems with wheat and subterranean clover. The effect of nitrogen availability was tested in a separate experiment with 12 different levels of N fertilization. The best seed arrangement was narrow alternate rows, where competition between crops is reduced in the early growth stages. At higher N fertilization rates, subterranean clover was suppressed; however, at yield levels, typical for organic farming (3-6 t/ha), the establishment of a subclover canopy under wheat is possible. %D 2017 %C Freising %K Lebendiger Mulch, Erdklee, bodenfrüchtiger Klee, Weizen, Konkurrenz %I Verlag Dr. Köster, Berlin %P 184-185 %T Managing the Competition in Cereal-Subclover-Systems