Conceptual framework for key factors and mechanisms explaining the enhanced ecosystem functions and ecological intensification through coculturing rice with animals.

Zi-Jun Ji et al. showed that #Rice–aquaticAnimalCocultures can promote #EcologicalIntensification, and exploiting #InterspecificFacilitation and #NicheComplementarity are the ecological mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of coculture.
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