Determination of the Water Requirements of Two Legume Species (Pueraria phaseloides L. (Kudzu) and Desmodium heterocarpon subsp. ovalifolium cv. Maquenque) Used as Cover Crops in Oil Palm Cultivation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The use of legume cover crops has become an established sustainable practice in agriculture due to their numerous benefits for soil conservation and their role in nutrient cycling and recycling. Additionally, it is essential to comprehend their role in crop water management, particularly in irrigated regions. This research was conducted at the Palmar de la Sierra Experimental Field in the Magdalena department of Colombia. The study aimed to determine the water requirements of the legumes Pueraria phaseloides L. and Desmodium heterocarpon subsp. ovalifolium cv. Maquenque and the evaluation of their development under three different soil moisture conditions: field capacity, 50% depletion, and 95% depletion. To achieve this, drainage lysimeters were set up using a completely randomized experimental design, and the water balance method was employed. The results indicate that both legume species are adversely affected by water deficit conditions, particularly P. phaseloides, which experiences a reduction in leaf area index of up to 12%. Under optimal soil moisture conditions, achieving more than 70% soil coverage, both legumes exhibited a similar average evapotranspiration rate of 3.2 mm day-1, with a range spanning from 1.2 to 4.8 mm day-1.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".