Do European agroforestry systems enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services? A meta-analysis

M Torralba, N Fagerholm, PJ Burgess, G Moreno… - Agriculture, ecosystems …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Agroforestry has been proposed as a sustainable agricultural system over conventional
agriculture and forestry, conserving biodiversity and enhancing ecosystem service provision …

Reconciling productivity with protection of the environment: is temperate agroforestry the answer?

J Smith, BD Pearce, MS Wolfe - Renewable Agriculture and Food …, 2013‏ - cambridge.org
Meeting the needs for a growing world population calls for multifunctional land use, which
can meet the multiple demands of food and fuel production, environmental and biodiversity …

Increased soil organic carbon stocks under agroforestry: A survey of six different sites in France

R Cardinael, T Chevallier, A Cambou, C Béral… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Agroforestry systems are land use management systems in which trees are grown in
combination with crops or pasture in the same field. In silvoarable systems, trees are …

Effects of vegetation type on soil resistance to erosion: Relationship between aggregate stability and shear strength

M Fattet, Y Fu, M Ghestem, W Ma, M Foulonneau… - Catena, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Soil water erosion and shallow landslides depend on aggregate stability and soil shear
strength. We investigated the effect of vegetation on both soil aggregate stability and shear …

A systematic map of ecosystem services assessments around European agroforestry

N Fagerholm, M Torralba, PJ Burgess, T Plieninger - Ecological Indicators, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Agroforestry offers proven strategies as an environmentally benign and ecologically
sustainable land management practice to promote ecosystem services. In this literature …

Branching out: Agroforestry as a climate change mitigation and adaptation tool for agriculture

M Schoeneberger, G Bentrup… - Journal of Soil and …, 2012‏ - Taylor & Francis
Meeting Multiple Demands Under Climate Change US and Canadian agricultural lands are
being pressed to provide more environmental and economic services, while at the same …

The functioning, management and persistence of dehesas

G Moreno, FJ Pulido - Agroforestry in Europe: current status and future …, 2009‏ - Springer
Dehesas are the most widespread agroforestry systems in Europe, where they cover 3.1
million hectares. They are multipurpose open woodlands, mostly created by clearing the …

Introducing the montado, the cork and holm oak agroforestry system of Southern Portugal

T Pinto-Correia, N Ribeiro, P Sá-Sousa - Agroforestry Systems, 2011‏ - Springer
The Portuguese montado is an agro-silvo pastoral system quite similar to the dehesa in
Spain, and covering in Portugal most of the Southern region of the country, Alentejo. The …

Decline of Mediterranean oak trees and its association with Phytophthora cinnamomi: a review

C de Sampaio e Paiva Camilo-Alves… - European Journal of …, 2013‏ - Springer
Mortality events in cork and holm oaks have occurred in the Mediterranean basin since the
beginning of the XX century, but severity of decline increased during the 1980s. By that time …

[ספר][B] Cork oak woodlands on the edge: ecology, adaptive management, and restoration

J Aronson, JS Pereira, JG Pausas - 2012‏ - books.google.com
Cork oak has historically been an important species in the western Mediterranean—
ecologically as a canopy or “framework” tree in natural woodlands, and culturally as an …