The 17 papers in this issue address multidisciplinary topics in agroforestry including, accessing resources, accessing markets, managing risks, advances in technology applications, production science, environmental benefits, adoption, implementation, evaluation, education, outreach and community...
Publisher
Springer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Agroforestry Systems, 2022, 96, 3, pp 447-668
Aims: Temperate alley-cropping agroforestry systems maintain agricultural production while offering several environmental benefits. Central benefits of agroforestry systems such as the 'safety-net'-role of the trees for leached nutrients are mainly due to processes occurring below the soil surface: ...
Author(s)
Beule, L.; Guerra, V.; Lehtsaar, E.; Vaupel, A.
Publisher
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands
Citation
Plant and Soil, 2022, 480, 1/2, pp 423-437
Black walnut (Juglans nigra) and honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos) have gained particular interest for use in silvopastures and other temperate agroforestry systems. However, measures of soil health indicators in these deciduous hardwood silvopastures over time have received limited attention....
Author(s)
Poudel, S.; Bansal, S.; Podder, S.; Paneru, B.; Karki, S.; Fike, J.; Sandeep Kumar
Publisher
Springer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Agroforestry Systems, 2022, 96, 8, pp 1237-1247
Soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration by improved agricultural practices is an acclaimed strategy to combat climate change. Nevertheless, the aim of increasing of SOC encounters limitations, e.g. with regards to permanence of carbon storage or leakage effects in food production. Agroforestry...
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Mayer, S.; Wiesmeier, M.; Sakamoto, E.; Hübner, R.; Cardinael, R.; Kühnel, A.; Kögel-Knabner, I.
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Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2021, 323,
Background: Tree-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 trees with rows of arable crops. Soil...
Author(s)
Beule, L.; Karlovsky, P.
Publisher
Public Library of Sciences (PLoS), San Francisco, USA
Citation
PLoS ONE, 2021, 16, 2,
Background: Alley-cropping systems in the temperate zone are a type of agroforestry in which rows of fast-growing trees are alternated with rows of annual crops. With numerous environmental benefits, temperate agroforestry is considered a promising alternative to conventional agriculture and soil...
Author(s)
Beule, L.; Karlovsky, P.
Publisher
PeerJ, San Francisco, USA
Citation
PeerJ, 2021, 9, 12236,
In the newly revised Third Edition of North American Agroforestry, an expert team of researchers delivers an authoritative and insightful exploration of an alternative land-use system that exploits the positive interactions between trees and crops when they are grown together and bridges the gap...
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, USA
Citation
North American agroforestry, 2021, Ed.3, pp 576 pp.
Plant production systems that are more sustainable than conventional monoculture croplands are the vision of future agriculture. With numerous environmental benefits, agroforestry is among the most promising alternatives. Although soil fungi are key drivers of plant productivity and ecosystem...
Author(s)
Beule, L.; Arndt, M.; Karlovsky, P.
Publisher
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Citation
Microorganisms, 2021, 9, 3,
Rates of adoption of temperate-region agroforestry remain low, despite multiple benefits. To develop a deeper understanding of the relationship between agroforestry learning and adoption, it is necessary to examine agroforestry educational programming in context. This study represents the first...
Author(s)
Mendelson, S.; Gold, M.; Lovell, S.; Hendrickson, M.
Publisher
Springer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Agroforestry Systems, 2021, 95, 4, pp 601-614
The study was carried out to assess the soil nutrient status in four prominent agroforestry systems viz., home gardens, horti-agriculture, boundary plantation and hortisilvi-pasture in temperate conditions of Kashmir Himalaya. Home garden was the most prominent system being adopted by farmers...
Author(s)
Dar Merajudin; Qaisar, K. N.; Mughal, A. H.; Khan, P. A.; Masoodi, T. H.; Mugloo, J. A.; Shah, I. A.
Publisher
Range Management Society of India, Jhansi, India
Citation
Range Management and Agroforestry, 2020, 41, 2, pp 374-380