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 …

Soil enzymes regulate ecosystem functioning and in particular play a key role in nutrient
cycling. In this review we briefly summarise potential roles of selected enzymes such as …

Declining biodiversity (BD) is affecting food security, agricultural sustainability, and
environmental quality. Agroforestry (AF) is recognized as a possible partial solution for BD …

Selected environments ranging from cultivated soils under vines and olive groves to
sequential abandonment with forest, meadow and scrub cover were investigated for their …

Modern temperate alley-cropping systems combine rows of trees with rows of crops
(agroforestry), which allows for diverse interspecific interactions such as the complementary …

Agroforestry and grass buffers have been shown to improve soil properties and overall
environmental quality. The objective of this study was to examine management and …

Understanding forest management-associated soil microbial changes is central to linking
aboveground and belowground forest structures and functions. Thinning is an important and …

Agroforestry is increasingly viewed as an effective means of maintaining or even increasing
crop and tree productivity under climate change while promoting other ecosystem functions …

Background Tree-based intercropping (agroforestry) has been advocated to reduce adverse
environmental impacts of conventional arable cropping. Modern agroforestry systems in the …

Alley cropping is defined as the planting of crops between widely spaced rows of trees. Tree–
crop combinations in alley cropping are developed with both production and ecological …