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Evaluation of physical and chemical soil properties under different management types in the south-western Colombian Andes

Forest Systems, 2021
Aim of study: Evaluating the variability of physical and chemical soil properties under different soil uses in an experimental farmland of the southwestern Colombian Andes.
Daniel A. Molina-Cuaichar, Angélica S. Moreno-Muñoz, Ivan F. Benavides-Martinez, Jorge F. Navia-Estrada, Jairo H. Mosquera-Guerrero   +4 more
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Effect of Alley Cropping on Crops and Arthropod Diversity in Duzce, Turkey

Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science, 2003
AbstractThe influence of alley cropping practices on trees, agricultural crops and arthropod diversity was studied in Duzce, Turkey. Six replications of three crops, maize (Zea mays L. var. rugosa), beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and zucchini (Cucurbita pepo L.), were planted in the alleyways between rows of hybrid poplar [Populus euramericana (Dode ...
Akbulut, Süleyman, Keten, Akif, Stamps, William T.   +2 more
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Multifunctionality of temperate alley-cropping agroforestry outperforms open cropland and grassland

Communications Earth & Environment, 2023
Alley-cropping agroforestry enhances carbon sequestration compared to open cropland and open grassland, and improves soil biological habitat and erosion resistance relative to open cropland, based on measured ecosystem functions at five sites in Germany.
Edzo Veldkamp, Marcus Schmidt, Christian Markwitz, Lukas Beule, René Beuschel, Andrea Biertümpfel, Xenia Bischel, Xiaohong Duan, Rowena Gerjets, Leonie Göbel, Rüdiger Graß, Victor Guerra, Florian Heinlein, Martin Komainda, Maren Langhof, Jie Luo, Martin Potthoff, Justus G. V. van Ramshorst, Carolin Rudolf, Diana-Maria Seserman, Guodong Shao, Lukas Siebicke, Nikolai Svoboda, Anita Swieter, Andrea Carminati, Dirk Freese, Torsten Graf, Jörg M. Greef, Johannes Isselstein, Martin Jansen, Petr Karlovsky, Alexander Knohl, Norbert Lamersdorf, Eckart Priesack, Christine Wachendorf, Michael Wachendorf, Marife D. Corre   +36 more
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Black walnut alley cropping is economically competitive with row crops in the MidwestUSA [PDF]

Ecological Applications, 2018
AbstractThe maize–soybean rotation (MSR) dominates the Midwest United States and degrades many ecological functions. Black walnut (Juglans nigraL.) plantation forestry (PF) and alley cropping (AC) are two alternative land‐uses that can enhance productivity and restore ecosystem services. Given the lack of robust market mechanisms to monetize ecosystems
Kevin J. Wolz, Evan H. DeLucia
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Alley Cropping Vegetable Crops with Leucaena in Southern Nigeria

HortScience, 1989
Abstract An alley cropping trial with various vegetable crops and Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit was carried out on an Oxic Paleustalf soil in southern Nigeria. With application of N, P, and K fertilizer, there were no yield differences between crops grown with alley ...
Y. S. Chen, Biauw Tjwan Kang, Fields E. Caveness   +2 more
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Assessment of a Chain Mower Performance for Weed Control under Tree Rows in an Alley Cropping Farming System

Agronomy, 2022
In the area under tree rows of alley cropping systems, coarse plant material as well as pruning material or stones may be present, so the use of a mower equipped with chains as cutting a tool could be advantageous.
Lorenzo Gagliardi, Marco Fontanelli, Christian Frasconi, Mino Sportelli, Daniele Antichi, Lorenzo Gabriele Tramacere, Giovanni Rallo, Andrea Peruzzi, Michele Raffaelli   +8 more
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Agroforstwirtschaft in Deutschland: Alley-Cropping-Systeme aus ökonomischer Perspektive

Journal für Kulturpflanzen, 2018
Die Landbewirtschaftung in Deutschland war in den letzten Jahrzehnten durch eine fortschreitende Intensivierung gekennzeichnet. Im Zuge dieser Entwicklung mussten viele Landschaftselemente wie Heckensäume, Gehölz­inseln und Einzelbäume der großflächigen ...
Josef Langenberg, Ludwig Theuvsen
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Erosion Control on a Steep Sloped Coffee Field in Indonesia with Alley Cropping, Intercropped Vegetables, and No-Tillage

Plant Production Science, 2003
In a hilly area in Lampung State, the southern end of Sumatra Island in Indonesia, coffee is commonly cultivated on hillsides with steep slopes and soil erosion affects sustainable coffee production. A field experiment on coffee cultivation was conducted
Morio Iijima, Yasuhiro Izumi, Erwin Yuliadi, Sunyoto, Afandi, Muhajir Utomo   +5 more
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Tennessee Fruit and Vegetable Farmers’ Willingness to Adopt Alley Cropping Systems

HortTechnology
Alley cropping is an agroforestry practice that involves the planting of trees or shrubs alongside herbaceous crops within the same production system.
Margarita Velandia, Carlos Trejo-Pech, David Butler, Le Chen, Annette Wszelaki, Karen L. DeLong, Susan Schexnayder, Hasibul Hasan Shanto   +7 more
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Fuelwood demand and supply in Rwanda and the role of agroforestry [PDF]

, 2011
Fuelwood in Rwanda is assumed to come from forests and woodlands, thus contributing to large-scale deforestation. Available studies on fuelwood demand and supply support this assumption and indicate a continuously rising demand of fuelwood, notably from ...
Mohren, G.M.J., Ndayambaje, J.D.
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