The aim of this study was to explore the effect sowing methods and deficit irrigation on weed dynamics, yield water-use efficiency (WUE) maize–cowpea system during summer monsoon seasons, respectively. field experiment carried out for two years (2015 2016) using a split design with three replicates under irrigated (maize) rainfed (cowpea) conditions vertisols semi-arid region. Treatments includ...

Young coastal fens are rare ecosystems in the first stages of peatland succession. Their drainage compromises their successional development toward future carbon (C) reservoirs. We present the first study on the success of hydrological restoration of young fens. We carried out vegetation surveys at six young fens that represent undrained, drained, and restored management categories in the Finni...

Peat formation is a key carbon sequestration process in the terrestrial biosphere. In temperate fens, peat mainly formed by below-ground biomass of vascular plants. Nutrient availability fens naturally variable, and nowadays increasing due to atmospheric deposition, runoff from agriculture mineralization caused drainage. To maintain or restore formation, it important understand how increased nu...