Aims In the face of problems caused by 'intensive agriculture'dominated by large areas of
monocultures, mixed intercrop** mimicking natural ecosystems has been reported to …

Agroforestry (AF)-based adaptation to global climate change can consist of (1) reversal of
negative trends in diverse tree cover as generic portfolio risk management strategy;(2) …

Agroforestry is recognized as a strategy for soil carbon sequestration (SCS) under the
afforestation/reforestation activities, but our understanding of soil carbon (C) dynamics under …

Agroforestry has attracted considerable attention in recent years because of its potential to
reduce poverty, improve food security, reduce land degradation and mitigate climate …

This chapter focuses on the root distribution of trees and crops, which are invisible and much
harder to work with than the above-ground components of plants. The fundamentals and …

The increasing and alarming trend of degradation and deforestation of tropical peat swamp
forests may contribute greatly to climate change. Estimates of carbon (C) losses associated …

Background More than a half century ago, Shinozaki et al.(. A quantitative analysis of plant
form–the pipe model theory. I. Basic analyses. Japanese Journal of Ecology B: 97–105) …

Over the last four decades, spanning David Coleman's career, and in no small measure
thanks to him, soil ecologists have made tremendous progress in describing and …

Forest conversion to coffee-based agroforestry leads to sudden disappearance of the litter
layer and a decrease in the rate of litter fall, reducing food for ecosystem engineers such as …

Homegarden agroforestry system has potential to sequester carbon while simultaneously
producing agriculture yield and tree products. This study analyzed relationship between …