Below-ground interactions in tropical agroecosystems : concepts and models with multiple plant components / / edited by M. van Noordwijk, G. Cadisch, and C.K. Ong

• Pubblicazione: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX ; ; Cambridge, MA, USA, : CABI Pub., c2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (462 p.)
• Disciplina: 631.4
• Soggetto topico: Plant-soil relationships - Tropics; Agricultural ecology - Tropics
• Altri autori: NoordwijkMeine van CadischG (Georg) OngC. K
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-428) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contributors; Foreword; Editors' Introduction; Acknowledgements; 1 Ecological Interactions in Multispecies Agroecosystems: Concepts and Rules; 2 Locally Derived Knowledge of Soil Fertility and Its Emerging Role in Integrated Natural Resource Management; 3 Models of Below-ground Interactions: Their Validity, Applicability and Beneficiaries; 4 Tree Root Architecture; 5 Crop and Tree Root-system Dynamics; 6 Opportunities for Capture of Deep Soil Nutrients; 7 Phosphorus Dynamics and Mobilization by Plants; 8 Managing Soil Acidity and Aluminium Toxicity in Tree-based Agroecosystems ; 9 Uptake, Partitioning and Redistribution of Water by Roots in Mixed-species Agroecosystems10 Catching and Competing for Mobile Nutrients in Soils; 11 Below-ground Inputs: Relationships with Soil Quality, Soil C Storage and Soil Structure; 12 Soil-Atmosphere Gas Exchange in Tropical Agriculture: Contributions to Climate Change; 13 Benefiting from N2-Fixation and Managing Rhizobia; 14 Managing Mycorrhiza in Tropical Multispecies Agroecosystems; 15 Nematodes and Other Soilborne Pathogens in Agroforestry; 16 Soil Biodiversity and Food Webs; 17 Managing Below-ground Interactions in Agroecosystems ; 18 Managing Movements of Water, Solutes and Soil: from Plot to Landscape Scale19 Soil and Water Movement: Combining Local Ecological Knowledge with that of Modellers when Scaling up from Plot to Landscape Level; 20 Challenges for the Next Decade of Research on Below-ground Interactions in Tropical Agroecosystems: Client-driven Solutions at Landscape Scale; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book provides a synthesis of plant-soil interactions in agroforestry, intercropping and grass-legume interactions. It focuses on the process level, which is relevant to many types of multi-species agro-ecosystems. It also links basic research to practical applications in a wide range of systems with or without trees, and considers effects of global change on below-ground interactions.
• Titolo autorizzato: Below-ground interactions in tropical agroecosystems
• ISBN: 1-280-83387-4; 9786610833870; 0-85199-924-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817623903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II