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Below-ground interactions in tropical agroecosystems [[electronic resource] ] : concepts and models with multiple plant components / / edited by M. van Noordwijk, G. Cadisch, and C.K. Ong
| Below-ground interactions in tropical agroecosystems [[electronic resource] ] : concepts and models with multiple plant components / / edited by M. van Noordwijk, G. Cadisch, and C.K. Ong |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX ; ; Cambridge, MA, USA, : CABI Pub., c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (462 p.) |
| Disciplina | 631.4 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
NoordwijkMeine van
CadischG (Georg) OngC. K |
| Soggetto topico |
Plant-soil relationships - Tropics
Agricultural ecology - Tropics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-83387-4
9786610833870 0-85199-924-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450059503321 |
| Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX ; ; Cambridge, MA, USA, : CABI Pub., c2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Below-ground interactions in tropical agroecosystems [[electronic resource] ] : concepts and models with multiple plant components / / edited by M. van Noordwijk, G. Cadisch, and C.K. Ong
| Below-ground interactions in tropical agroecosystems [[electronic resource] ] : concepts and models with multiple plant components / / edited by M. van Noordwijk, G. Cadisch, and C.K. Ong |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX ; ; Cambridge, MA, USA, : CABI Pub., c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (462 p.) |
| Disciplina | 631.4 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
NoordwijkMeine van
CadischG (Georg) OngC. K |
| Soggetto topico |
Plant-soil relationships - Tropics
Agricultural ecology - Tropics |
| ISBN |
1-280-83387-4
9786610833870 0-85199-924-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783107903321 |
| Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX ; ; Cambridge, MA, USA, : CABI Pub., c2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sustainable agriculture and the environment in the humid tropics [[electronic resource] /] / Committee on Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics, Board on Agriculture and Board on Science and Technology for International Development, National Research Council
| Sustainable agriculture and the environment in the humid tropics [[electronic resource] /] / Committee on Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics, Board on Agriculture and Board on Science and Technology for International Development, National Research Council |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1993 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (720 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.76/15/0913 |
| Soggetto topico |
Agricultural systems - Tropics
Sustainable agriculture - Tropics Land use, Rural - Tropics Agricultural ecology - Tropics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-21161-X
9786610211616 0-309-58840-5 0-585-03739-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456223703321 |
| Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1993 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sustainable agriculture and the environment in the humid tropics [[electronic resource] /] / Committee on Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics, Board on Agriculture and Board on Science and Technology for International Development, National Research Council
| Sustainable agriculture and the environment in the humid tropics [[electronic resource] /] / Committee on Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics, Board on Agriculture and Board on Science and Technology for International Development, National Research Council |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1993 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (720 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.76/15/0913 |
| Soggetto topico |
Agricultural systems - Tropics
Sustainable agriculture - Tropics Land use, Rural - Tropics Agricultural ecology - Tropics |
| ISBN |
1-280-21161-X
9786610211616 0-309-58840-5 0-585-03739-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778798803321 |
| Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1993 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sustainable agriculture and the environment in the humid tropics / / Committee on Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics, Board on Agriculture and Board on Science and Technology for International Development, National Research Council
| Sustainable agriculture and the environment in the humid tropics / / Committee on Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics, Board on Agriculture and Board on Science and Technology for International Development, National Research Council |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1993 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (720 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.76/15/0913 |
| Soggetto topico |
Agricultural systems - Tropics
Sustainable agriculture - Tropics Land use, Rural - Tropics Agricultural ecology - Tropics |
| ISBN |
9786610211616
9781280211614 128021161X 9780309588409 0309588405 9780585037394 0585037396 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the HUMID TROPICS -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- FINDINGS -- LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT: A GLOBAL REQUIREMENT -- THE HUMID TROPICS -- Forest Conversion -- CAUSES OF FOREST CONVERSION -- CONSEQUENCES OF FOREST CONVERSION -- Agriculture in the Humid Tropics -- Adopting an Integrated Approach to Land Use -- SUSTAINABLE LAND USE OPTIONS -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- Technical Research Needs -- DOCUMENTATION OF LAND USE SYSTEMS -- INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE -- MONITORING -- Policy Strategies -- POLICY REVIEWS -- GLOBAL EQUITY -- Supporting Sustainable Agriculture -- CREATION OF AN ENABLING ENVIRONMENT -- INCENTIVES -- PARTNERSHIPS -- CONCLUSION -- PART ONE -- 1 Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics -- THE HUMID TROPICS -- FOREST CHARACTERISTICS AND BENEFITS -- Local and Global Climatic Interactions -- Biological Diversity -- Products and Commodities -- Nutrient Cycling -- Protection of Soils -- Stabilization of Hydrological Systems -- Water Availability and Quality -- Mitigation of Storm Impacts -- CONVERSION OF HUMID TROPIC FORESTS -- Deforestation Rates Within Regions of the Humid Tropics -- Causes of Forest Conversion -- Historical Patterns of Forest Conversion -- Consequences of Forest Conversion -- ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES -- SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES -- ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES -- SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN THE HUMID TROPICS -- Constraints on Agricultural Productivity -- CLIMATE -- SOILS -- BIOLOGICAL FACTORS -- The Path to Sustainable Agriculture -- THE NEED FOR AN INTEGRATED APPROACH -- MOVING TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY -- 2 Sustainable Land Use Options -- INTENSIVE CROPPING SYSTEMS -- The Development of Intensive Agriculture -- Programs and Research Activities -- Implications for Forest Boundary Stabilization -- SHIFTING CULTIVATION -- Stabilization Guidelines.
Managed Fallows and Forests in Mexico: An Example -- Low-Input Cropping: A Transition Technology -- AGROPASTORAL SYSTEMS -- Features and Benefits of Agropastoral Farms -- Requirements for Greater Sustainability -- CATTLE RANCHING -- Cattle Pastureland in Asia -- Cattle Pastureland in Africa -- Cattle Pastureland in Latin America -- Pasture Degradation: A Common Feature -- Reclamation of Degraded Pasture on Deforested Lands -- The Appropriate Pasture Technology for Sustainability -- AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS -- Types of Traditional Agroforestry Systems in the Humid Tropics -- Improved Agroforestry Systems -- IMPROVED TREES AND WOODY SHRUBS -- ARRANGEMENT OF TREES, CROPS, AND LIVESTOCK -- Advantages and Disadvantages of Agroforestry -- Research Priorities -- MIXED TREE SYSTEMS -- Past and Present Forest Management -- Mixed Tree Systems Throughout the World -- The Role of Mixed Tree Systems in Tropical Forest Conservation -- PERENNIAL TREE CROP PLANTATIONS -- Plantation Crops and Economic Development -- Environmental Effects -- Investments for Sustainability -- PLANTATION FORESTRY -- REGENERATING AND SECONDARY FORESTS -- Factors Affecting Forest Regeneration -- SHORT-TERM FACTORS -- LONG-TERM FACTORS -- Fire -- Acceleration of Forest Regeneration -- THE ROLE OF SECONDARY FORESTS -- NATURAL FOREST MANAGEMENT -- Forest Management in the Humid Tropics -- Management Systems -- UNIFORM SHELTERWOOD SYSTEMS -- STRIP SHELTERWOOD SYSTEMS -- SELECTION SYSTEMS -- Constraints on Sustainable Forestry -- MODIFIED FORESTS -- FOREST RESERVES -- Defining a Role for Extractive Reserves -- 3 Technological Imperatives for Change -- KNOWLEDGE ABOUT LAND USE OPTIONS -- A Comparison of Land Use System Attributes -- Indigenous Knowledge and Production Systems -- LAND USE DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS -- Sustainability and the Integration of Land Uses. Land Use Patterns and Land Classification -- Maintenance of Biomass -- Monitoring Systems and Methodologies -- ECOLOGICAL GUIDELINES FOR SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT -- TECHNICAL NEEDS COMMON TO ALL LAND USE OPTIONS -- Pest Management -- Nutrient Cycling -- Water Management -- COMMODITY-SPECIFIC RESEARCH NEEDS -- 4 Policy-Related Imperatives for Change -- MANAGING FOREST AND LAND RESOURCES -- Reviews of Existing Policies -- Planning of Major Infrastructure Projects -- National Resource Management Agencies -- Biodiversity -- Global Equity Considerations -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX Emissions of Greenhouse Gases from Tropical Deforestation and Subsequent Uses of the Land -- EFFECTS OF LAND USE CHANGE ON GLOBAL CLIMATE -- MAJOR LAND USE CHANGES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FLUX OF GREENHOUSE GASES -- Permanent Agriculture -- Pastures -- Degradation of Croplands and Pastures -- Shifting Cultivation -- TRADITIONAL LONG-ROTATION SHIFTING CULTIVATION -- SHORT-ROTATION SHIFTING CULTIVATION -- ENCROACHING CULTIVATION -- Tree Plantations -- Logging -- Degraded Forests -- ESTIMATED FLUX OF GREENHOUSE GASES FROM LAND USE CHANGES -- Carbon -- BIOMASS BURNING -- TROPICAL SYSTEMS AS CARBON SINKS -- Other Greenhouse Gases -- METHANE -- NITROUS OXIDE -- CARBON MONOXIDE -- Total Radiative Effect from All Gases Released as a Result of Tropical Deforestation -- ESTIMATING FUTURE IMPACTS -- Carbon Accounting Models -- Models that Integrate Socioeconomic and Ecologic Aspects of Land Use Change -- FACTORS AFFECTING LAND USE CHANGES -- MODELS -- SUSTAINABILITY AND THE REDUCTION OF FUTURE IMPACTS -- Agroforestry -- Carbon Sinks -- Priorities for Future Research -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PART TWO -- Country Profiles -- Brazil -- BASIS FOR SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS OF AMAZONIAN AGRICULTURE -- THE BRAZILIAN HUMID TROPICS -- The Environment -- Macroecologic Units -- AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT. Chronological Agricultural Development -- Physical and Economic Agricultural Development -- AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NORTHEASTERN PARÁ -- AGRICULTURE IN VÁRZEA FLOODPLAINS -- AGRICULTURE IN FRONTIER EXPANSION AREAS -- AGRICULTURE IN OFFICIAL COLONIZATION AREAS -- AREAS OF FOREST PRODUCT EXTRACTION -- DEFORESTATION FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT -- Extent of Deforestation -- Rate of Deforestation -- Environmental Impacts of Deforestation -- MACROLIMITATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT -- Climate -- Biotic Pressure -- Soil-Related Limitations -- Sociocultural Limitations -- Political Limitations -- ENVIRONMENTAL BOTTLENECKS FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT -- PRESENT KNOWLEDGE BASE FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT -- Domestication of Nontimber Forest Extraction Products -- Natural Resources-Climate, Soil, and Vegetation -- Forest Exploration -- Annual Food and Fiber Crops -- Perennial Crops -- Pastures and Animal Production -- Aquaculture -- Agroindustrial Technology -- Basic Knowledge -- DIFFUSION AND UTILIZATION OF TECHNOLOGY -- AMAZONIAN AGRICULTURAL LAND USE SYSTEMS AND THEIR SUSTAINABILITIES -- Extraction of Nontimber Forest Products -- SUSTAINABILITY OF NONTIMBER RESOURCE EXTRACTION -- RESEARCH NEEDS -- Extraction of Timber Products -- SUSTAINABILITY OF TIMBER EXTRACTION -- RESEARCH NEEDS -- Shifting Agriculture in Upland Areas -- SUSTAINABILITY OF SHIFTING AGRICULTURE IN UPLAND AREAS -- RESEARCH NEEDS -- Várzea Floodplain Agriculture -- SUSTAINABILITY OF FLOODPLAIN AGRICULTURE -- RESEARCH NEEDS -- Cattle Raising on Pastures that Have Replaced Forests -- SUSTAINABILITY OF CATTLE RAISING -- RESEARCH NEEDS -- Cattle Raising on Native Grassland Ecosystems -- WELL-DRAINED SAVANNAH GRASSLANDS (WDSG) -- CATTLE RAISING ON ALLUVIAL FLOODPLAIN (VÁRZEA) GRASSLANDS (FPG) -- CATTLE RAISING ON POORLY DRAINED SAVANNAH GRASSLANDS (PDSG). Perennial Crop Agriculture -- SUSTAINABILITY OF PERENNIAL CROP AGRICULTURE -- RESEARCH NEEDS -- Agroforestry -- LAND USE INTENSITY, RESEARCH, AND TECHNOLOGY: THE KEY FOR SUSTAINABILITY -- Institutional Capacity -- A FUTURE SCENARIO -- EXPANSION POTENTIAL OF PRESENT LAND USE SYSTEMS -- REFERENCES -- Côte d'Ivoire -- POPULATION -- FOREST RESOURCES -- DOMESTIC ECONOMY -- AGRICULTURE -- Export Crops -- Food Crops -- Sources of Agricultural Growth -- CAUSES OF DEFORESTATION -- Principal Causes -- AGRICULTURE -- LOGGING -- FUELWOOD -- CATTLE GRAZING -- Underlying Causes of Deforestation -- SHIFTING CULTIVATION -- LAND TENURE REGIMES -- GOVERNMENT POLICIES -- EFFECTS OF DEFORESTATION -- Climate and Microclimate -- Biodiversity -- Agricultural Productivity -- Forest Damage and Timber Production Potential -- AGRICULTURAL INTERVENTIONS AND SUSTAINABILITY -- Technological Interventions -- ORGANIC MATTER -- MULCHES AND COVER CROPS -- INORGANIC FERTILIZERS -- AGROFORESTRY -- CONSERVATION TILLAGE -- Policy Interventions -- SECURE PROPERTY RIGHTS -- FISCAL POLICIES -- CREDIT, PRICE POLICIES, AND MARKETS -- SUMMARY -- Three Deforestation Scenarios -- TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS -- POLICY OPTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Indonesia -- DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY AND ITS TROPICAL FORESTS -- Population -- Agriculture -- Forest Resources -- DESIGNATED FORESTLANDS -- PRODUCTION FORESTS -- Ecologic Characteristics and Issues -- BIOGEOGRAPHICAL DIVERSITY -- Economic Activity -- Economic Importance of Forestry -- TIMBER PRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF PRIMARY WOOD-BASED INDUSTRIES -- DEVELOPMENT OF SECONDARY WOOD-BASED INDUSTRIES -- Contribution of Forestry to the National Economy -- HISTORICAL ASPECTS AND CAUSES OF DEFORESTATION -- Rates of Deforestation -- Population Pressure and Demand for Agricultural Land -- Logging in Natural Forests -- Shifting Cultivation -- Transmigration Program. Tree Crop Development. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Humid tropics |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910973716103321 |
| Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1993 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Tropical and subtropical agroecosystems
| Tropical and subtropical agroecosystems |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Yucatán, Mexico, : Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Soggetto topico |
Agricultural ecology - Tropics
Agricultural ecology |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Periodicals. |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | spa |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996321393603316 |
| Yucatán, Mexico, : Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Tropical and subtropical agroecosystems
| Tropical and subtropical agroecosystems |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Yucatán, Mexico, : Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Soggetto topico |
Agricultural ecology - Tropics
Agricultural ecology |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Periodicals. |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | spa |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910145847003321 |
| Yucatán, Mexico, : Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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