Agroforestry has been proposed as a sustainable agricultural system over conventional
agriculture and forestry, conserving biodiversity and enhancing ecosystem service provision …

Background Disentangling nutrient acquisition strategies between trees and crops is central
to understanding positive nutrient interactions in agroforestry systems for improved low-input …

The second edition of this book, first published in 1991 and intended for students and
researchers, contains revised and updated material on the theory and practice of nitrogen …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a globally important cereal plant, and as a primary source of food it
accounts for 35–75% of the calorie intake of more than 3 billion humans. With the likely …

Current conventional agriculture is considered unsustainable and inadequate to address
great societal challenges such as climate change, environmental pollution, food security …

Food security is threatened by the combined pressures of increasing populations and
climate change. Agricultural land is vulnerable to overexploitation and environmental …

It is almost certainly the case that many populations have always existed as
metapopulations, leading to the conclusion that local extinctions are common and normally …

Since about the age of ten, I have been fascinated by plants and their use for decoration as
flowers, and for food. Much of my pocket money as a child came from the sale of plants and …

The ecological principles that define the competitive and complementary interactions among
trees, crops, and fauna in agroforestry systems have received considerable research …

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 …