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). The underexplored adaptive capacity of maslins, as well as the shift of varieties in varietal mixtures across years, have implications for climate change-resilient farming. Under this passive strategy, the biotic and abiotic conditions present in a given year would alter the proportion of seeds harvested from a given component and used to plant the following year’s crop.
Plant species within polycultures of non-cultivated plants increase in complementarity over time, leading to higher biomass production . Our current understanding of farmers’ willingness to let maslins evolve suggests that a similar increase in the complementarity of maslin components over time is possible.
Maslins may present a unique complement to varietal mixture and interfamilial mixture cropping systems for sustainable and agroecological intensification.
Table 1 Maslin characteristics aligned with the needs for agriculture to adapt to ongoing and predicted climate change impacts as outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report (IPCC
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