Agroforestry for Ecosystem Services and Environmental Benefits

Agroforestry for ecosystem services and environmental benefits: an overview.- Contribution of trees to soil carbon sequestration under agroforestry systems in the West African Sahel.- Soil organic carbon and aggregation under poplar based agroforestry system in relation to tree age and soil type.- Carbon pools in tree biomass and the soil in improved fallows in eastern Zambia.- Soil carbon stock in relation to plant diversity of homegardens in Kerala, India.- Crop residue effect on crop performance, soil N2O and CO2 emissions in alley cropping systems in subtropical China.- Soil characteristics below Erythrina poeppigiana in organic and conventional Costa Rican coffee plantations.- Effects of shade on arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization and growth of crops and tree seedlings in Central India.- Cooperative management and its effects on shade tree diversity, soil properties and ecosystem services of coffee plantations in western El Salvador.- Soil and litter fauna of cacao agroforestry systems in Bahia, Brazil.- Effects of shade and bird exclusion on arthropods and leaf damage on coffee farms in Jamaica’s Blue Mountains.- Nectar volume and floral entomofauna as a tool for the implementation of sustainable apicultural management plans in Quillaja saponaria Mol..- Spatiotemporal density patterns of the pest predator Rhynchium haemorrhoidale (F.) along a land-use gradient in cacao agroforestry systems.- Ethnobotanical knowledge of Philippine lowland farmers and its application in agroforestry.- Factors affecting adoption of hedgerows and other biodiversity-enhancing features on farms in California, USA.- Willingness of Iowa agricultural landowners to allow fee hunting associated with in-field shelterbelts.- An evaluation of farmers’ experiences planting native trees in rural Panama: implications for reforestation with native species in agricultural landscapes.- Financial feasibility of using shelterbelts for swine odor mitigation.- Coarse root growth of Veronese poplar trees varies with position on an erodible slope in New Zealand.