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Temperate Agroforestry Systems [PDF]
Tree Physiology, 1998 Agroforestry is a land use system that allows for the concurrent production of trees and agricultural crops from the same piece of land. It has a history of development and has been practised in some parts of the world for more than 6000 years. Much research into agroforestry has been carried out in the tropics and within the context of developing ...
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Modelling Agroforestry’s Contributions to People—A Review of Available Models
Agronomy, 2021 Climate change, increasing environmental pollution, continuous loss of biodiversity, and a growing human population with increasing food demand, threaten the functioning of agro-ecosystems and their contribution to people and society.
Philipp Kraft +7 more
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Tree rows in temperate agroforestry croplands alter the composition of soil bacterial communities.
PLoS ONE, 2021 BackgroundTree-based intercropping (agroforestry) has been advocated to reduce adverse environmental impacts of conventional arable cropping. Modern agroforestry systems in the temperate zone are alley-cropping systems that combine rows of fast-growing ...
Lukas Beule, Petr Karlovsky
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Quercus ilex L. is the dominant species in the Mediterranean forest and agrosilvopastoral ecosystem “dehesa.” Currently, this forest species is threatened by natural and anthropogenic agents, especially by the decline syndrome, which is caused by ...
Bonoso San-Eufrasio +7 more
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Plants, 2022 The integrated analysis of different omic layers can provide new knowledge not provided by their individual analysis. This approach is also necessary to validate data and reveal post-transcriptional and post-translational mechanisms of gene expression ...
Víctor M. Guerrero-Sánchez +5 more
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Selection of native trees for intercropping with coffee in the Atlantic Rainforest biome [PDF]
, 2010 A challenge in establishing agroforestry systems is ensuring that farmers are interested in the tree species, and are aware of how to adequately manage these species.
Bonfim, V.R. +7 more
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European agroforestry has no unequivocal effect on biodiversity: a time-cumulative meta-analysis
BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Background Agroforestry is a production system combining trees with crops or livestock. It has the potential to increase biodiversity in relation to single-use systems, such as pastures or cropland, by providing a higher habitat heterogeneity.
Anne-Christine Mupepele +2 more
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Economic and Environmental Assessment of Olive Agroforestry Practices in Northern Greece
Agriculture, 2022 Preservation and promotion of agroforestry systems entails the ideology for more ecosystem services, additional biodiversity benefits and climate change mitigation.
Emmanouil Tziolas +4 more
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Cocoa agroforestry systems versus monocultures: a multi-dimensional meta-analysis
Environmental Research Letters, 2020 Scientific knowledge, societal debates, and industry commitments around sustainable cocoa are increasing. Cocoa agroforestry systems are supposed to improve the sustainability of cocoa production.
Wiebke Niether +4 more
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