DOI: 10.31220/agriRxiv.2021.00089

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  Abstract: Abstract Field boundaries can provide ecosystem services to crops by creating better abiotic conditions for crop growth, and can also act as habitat for beneficial arthropods. This suggests that crop boundaries may create an intermediate hump-shaped increase in crop yield, where negative edge effects are cancelled out by increased ecosystem services from the field boundary. However, there is little large-scale evidence showing this, largely because plot-scale crop yields are costly and time-consuming to measure. Precision yield data from combine yield monitors has huge potential in this respect, as the equipment is widespread and data is frequently recorded by growers. In this study, we used 252 field-years of yield monitor data from three common crops - wheat ( Triticum aestivum ), canola ( Brassica napus ), or peas ( Pisum sativum ) - recorded across Alberta, Canada, and examined how yield varied with distances from common crop boundary types. Average crop yield tended to increase with distance from crop boundaries before plateauing at about 50 m, and yield variation (SD) tended to decrease with distance. There was evidence of an intermediate increase in yield for wheat away from shelterbelts, and a weak increase in canola, but this was not seen for other crop types or boundary types. This study represents one of the first uses of precision yield data to measure ecosystem service provision at large spatial scales.

  Key words: increase; precision; yield data; crop; boundary; ecosystem service

  Submit time: 1 January 2021

  Copyright: The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder, who has granted agriXiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.
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