Integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation through agroforestry and ecosystem conservation

J Matocha, G Schroth, T Hills, D Hole - … -the future of global land use, 2012 - Springer
Climate change adaptation and mitigation are usually the objects of separate projects, but in
this review we argue that in agricultural contexts, there are often technical and financial …

From ethnobotany to mainstream agriculture: socially modified Cinderella species capturing 'trade-ons' for 'land maxing'

RRB Leakey - Planta, 2019 - Springer
Main conclusion Over the last 25 years, the process of domesticating culturally-important,
highly-nutritious, indigenous food-tree species. Integrating these over-looked …

Conservation Priorities for Prunus africana Defined with the Aid of Spatial Analysis of Genetic Data and Climatic Variables

B Vinceti, J Loo, H Gaisberger, MJ van Zonneveld… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Conservation priorities for Prunus africana, a tree species found across Afromontane
regions, which is of great commercial interest internationally and of local value for rural …

Tree domestication in agroforestry: progress in the second decade (2003–2012)

RRB Leakey, JC Weber, T Page, JP Cornelius… - Agroforestry-the future of …, 2012 - Springer
More than 420 research papers, involving more than 50 tree species, form the literature on
agroforestry tree domestication since the 1992 conference that initiated the global …

[图书][B] Multifunctional agriculture: Achieving sustainable development in Africa

R Leakey - 2017 - books.google.com
In a world increasingly challenged by the need to integrate and understand highly
specialized knowledge in a multidisciplinary way, this book is innovative and perhaps …

Climate change and tree genetic resource management: maintaining and enhancing the productivity and value of smallholder tropical agroforestry landscapes. A …

IK Dawson, B Vinceti, JC Weber, H Neufeldt… - Agroforestry …, 2011 - Springer
Anthropogenic climate change has significant consequences for the sustainability and
productivity of agroforestry ecosystems upon which millions of smallholders in the tropics …

A dated phylogeny and collection records reveal repeated biome shifts in the African genus Coccinia(Cucurbitaceae)

N Holstein, SS Renner - BMC evolutionary biology, 2011 - Springer
Background Conservatism in climatic tolerance may limit geographic range expansion and
should enhance the effects of habitat fragmentation on population subdivision. Here we …

Effects of bark harvest and other human activity on populations of the African cherry (Prunus africana) on Mount Oku, Cameroon

K Stewart - Forest Ecology and Management, 2009 - Elsevier
Bark extracts from the African cherry, Prunus africana (Rosaceae), are a popular treatment
for enlarged prostates. Harvests of the bark began in Cameroon in the 1970s. Because of …

Phylogeography of the Afromontane Prunus africana reveals a former migration corridor between East and West African highlands

CAC Kadu, S Schueler, H Konrad… - Molecular …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Scattered populations of the same tree species in montane forests through Africa have led to
speculations on the origins of distributions. Here, we inferred the colonization history of the …

Divergent pattern of nuclear genetic diversity across the range of the Afromontane Prunus africana mirrors variable climate of African highlands

CAC Kadu, H Konrad, S Schueler, GM Muluvi… - Annals of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Afromontane forest ecosystems share a high similarity of
plant and animal biodiversity, although they occur mainly on isolated mountain massifs …