Editing Crop rotation (section)

=== Relationship to other systems ===

Crop rotation systems may be enriched by other practices such as the addition of livestock and manure,<ref name="NCATweb">{{cite web |last1=Gegner |first1=Lance |last2=Kuepper |first2=George |url=https://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/viewhtml.php?id=66 |title=Organic Crop Production Overview |publisher=[[National Center for Appropriate Technology]] |date=August 2004 |access-date=4 May 2016 |archive-date=15 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115155400/https://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/viewhtml.php?id=66 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and by growing more than one crop at a time in a field. A [[monoculture]] is a crop grown by itself in a field. A [[polyculture]] involves two or more crops growing in the same place at the same time. Crop rotations can be applied to both monocultures and polycultures, resulting in multiple ways of increasing agricultural biodiversity (table).<ref name="WSU"/>

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|+Diversity of crops in space and time;<br/>monocultures, polycultures, and rotations<ref name="WSU">{{cite web |title=Ecological Theories, Meta-Analysis, and the Benefits of Monocultures |url=http://csanr.wsu.edu/theories-meta-analysis-monocultures/ |publisher=Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, [[Washington State University]] |access-date=2015-09-18}}</ref>
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! colspan="3" |Diversity in time
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! rowspan="2" |Low
! colspan="2" |Higher
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!Cyclic
!Dynamic
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!rowspan="2" |Diversity<br/>in space
!Low
!Monoculture,<br/>one species in a field
|Continuous<br/>[[monoculture]],<br/>monocropping
|Rotation of<br/>monocultures
|Sequence of<br/>monocultures
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!Higher
!Polyculture,<br/>two or more species<br/>intermingled in a field
|Continuous<br/>[[polyculture]]
|Rotation of<br/>polycultures
|Sequence of<br/>polycultures
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