Simeon Leisch-Waskönig

Abstract Increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) aims to increase and maintain soil quality for sustainable crop production and to achieve carbon removal targets. Agronomic practices are therefore needed to reduce carbon losses and increase SOC stocks, especially in deep soil layers, which promote long-term storage.

3. Results In the vast majority of experiments, transferred mulch from green manures reduced the initial infestation by between 23 and 80% (Figure 2A), but this was not significant, despite high standard deviations. Over all the experiments, the initial infestation was significantly reduced by 24% (p < 0.001). The resulting egg masses (Figure 2B) and the number of eggs (Figure 2C) were also reduced in many cases.