Alder , a temperate climate NFT , when planted in hedges was shown to have a favorable effect on nitrogen nutrition of neighboring apples ( Delver , 1968 ) . Although alley cropping with annual crops has been criticized recently for ...

Organic material breaks down 2-3 times as fast as in temperate areas . For this reason , the emphasis lies on other conservation practices : more on agroforestry than on composting , for example . Furthermore , precipitation may be more ...

RESUMEN The hydrological balances for the agroforestry systems of Coffea arabica with Cordia alliodora or Erythrina ... or plantation forests from tropical and temperate areas , and clearly better than that of annual crop systems .

Materials and methods Zone of study This study was conduced Costa Rica using 60 sites as temporal plots in a nested sampling ... Area of Agroforestry , CATIE 2 Research - professor , Area of Watersheds and Agroforestry Systems , CATIE ...

These are fields in which our knowledge base is strong and where CATIE has a comparative advantage in the region . ... a joint master's degree in agroforestry systems for temperate regions ; CIAT and IICA , with the financial support of ...

Title : Effect of E. poeppigiana in various agroforestry systems on the earthworm population . ... between earthworm populations and the environment have been under study since the beginning of this century in the temperate zone .

... the avoidance by scientists of agroforestry systems because of their complexity and the great difficulty in setting up ... transference to the tropics of capital and technology - intensive methods originated in temperate : regions .

For temperate - zone forests often plot data are lacking for ages less than 10-20 years . ... The quantification of growth and yield of agroforestry systems involving enumerable mixes of tree species , annual plants , and animals ...

FORESTRY INCENTIVES TO ESTABLISH AND MANAGE TIMBER TREES IN COFFEE FIELDS C. J. Viera ' , E. Köpsell ' , J. Beer ' , F. Jiménez ' , R. Lok Development of Agroforestry Systems Unit , Watershed and Agroforestry Systems Area .

I PAPERS Agroforestry in Central America G. Budowski * General consideration Agroforestry implies combining trees with ... transference to the tropics of capital and technology - intensive methods which originated in temperate regions .