Toward Agroforestry Design

Preface. Section 1: Introduction. 1. Ecological knowledge and agroforestry design: an introduction; S. Jose, A.M. Gordon.- Section 2: Resource allocation in agroforestry systems: above-ground processes. 2. Biophysical changes resulting from 16-years of riparian forest rehabilitation: an example from the southern Ontario agricultural landscape; M. Oelbermann et al.- 3. Ecological development and function of shelterbelts in temperate North America; C.W. Mize et al.- 4. Forage production under and adjacent to Robinia pseudoacacia in central Appalachia, West Virginia; C.M. Feldhake et al.- 5. Light intensity effects on growth and nutrient use efficiency of tropical legume cover crops; V.C. Baligar et al.- 6. Interspecific competition in a pecan-cotton alleycropping system in the southern United States: is light the limiting factor? D.S. Zamora et al.- 7. Modification of microclimate and associated food crop productivity in an alleycropping system in northern Sudan; H. Shapo, H. Adam.- 8. Tree - crop interactions in fruit-tree-based agroforestry systems in the western highlands of Guatemala: component yields and system performance; J.G. Bellow et al.- 9. Biophysical interactions between timber trees and Arabica coffee in suboptimal conditions of Central America; P. Vaast et al.- Section 3: Resource allocation in Agroforestry systems: belowground processes. 10. Agroforestry management effects on plant productivity vectors within a humid-temperate hardwood alleycropping system; G.R. von Kiparski, A.R. Gillespie.- 11. Root competition for phosphorus between coconut palms and interplanted dicot trees along a soil fertility gradient in Kerala, India; H.B.S. Gowda, B.M.Kumar.- 12. Establishment of Cordia dodecandra A.DC. with Bixa orellana L. on calcareous soils in Yucatán, Mexico; M. Reuter et al.- 13. Tree foliage polyphenols and nitrogen use in crop-livestock systems of southern Africa: strategies for increasing efficiency; P.L. Mafongoya, L. Hove.- Section 4: Towards