Below-ground Interactions in Tropical Agroecosystems ：Concepts and Models with Multiple Plant Components

Publication subTitle ：Concepts and Models with Multiple Plant Components

Author： vanNoordwijk   M.;Cadisch   G.;Ong   C.K.  

Publisher： CABI Publishing‎

Publication year： 2004

E-ISBN: 9780851999241

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780851996738

Subject： P3 Geophysics;P5 Geology;S1 Basic Agriculture Science

Keyword： Soil Science Sedimentology Limnology (Freshwater) Fertilizers and Manures

Language： ENG

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Description

This book provides a synthesis of plant-soil-plant interactions in agroforestry, intercropping and grass-legume interactions. It focuses on the process level, which is relevant to many types of multi-species agroecosystem. 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. The contents include soil biodiversity and food webs, phosphorus dynamics and mobilization by plants, and crop and tree root-system dynamics. The book will be of significant interest to researchers in plant, crop and soil sciences as well as agroforestry.

Chapter

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 Agroecosystems

10 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 Scale

19 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

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