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Re:Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively ... by animal_spirits on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @10:32AM (#31836492)
Biodiversity effects on yield and unsown species invasion in a temperate forage ecosystem (2009)

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2707887/

Grass-legume mixtures sustain strong yield advantage over monocultures under cool maritime growing conditions over a period of 5 years

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29790908/

Biodiversity loss in Latin American coffee landscapes: review of the evidence on ants, birds, and trees (2008)

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18759777/

Temporal changes in genetic diversity and forage yield of perennial ryegrass in monoculture and in combination with red clover in swards (2018)

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30408053/

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Re:Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively ... by jebus989 on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @11:13AM (#31837101)
These are indeed links but quite random ones. Mostly they are reporting that growing two things together in a field can give higher yields than growing a single thing. None seem to be related to GMOs, which could obviously also be grown with complimentary species to increase yield.
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Re:Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively ... by animal_spirits on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @11:22AM (#31837226)
Correct, these are papers on monocultures vs non monocultures. But GMOs are inclined to be grown in monocultures.
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Re:Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively ... by jebus989 on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @11:46AM (#31837580)
All crops are inclined to be grown in monocultures. That's because even if you'd get more yield pairing with other species — as in these studies — pragmatically the time and cost of sowing, harvesting and separating multiple species outweighs the theoretical yield gain per unit area of a monocrop.
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Re:Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively ... by WithinReason on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @11:14AM (#31837106)
All this seems to be about agriculture in general, not GMO
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