Water use efficiency (WUE) is defined as the amount of carbon assimilated as biomass or
grain produced per unit of water used by the crop. One of the primary questions being asked …

This review summarises current knowledge on root interactions in agroforestry systems,
discussing cases from temperate and tropical ecosystems and drawing on experiences from …

This book provides a quantitative analysis of the role of woody plants in semi-arid regions,
for the aSSessment of their benefits in agrosylvopastoralland-use systems with productive …

This literature review presents information about the role of tree root systems for the
functioning of agroforestry associations and rotations and attempts to identify root-related …

Field experiments were carried out in two parts at the Luancheng Experimental Station in the
North China Plain. Part I, which was a continuous experiment that ran from 1990 to 2008 …

This paper discusses the effects of intercropping and tree pruning on root distribution and
soil water depletion in an alley cropping system with Acacia saligna and Sorghum bicolor in …

The objective of this study was to simulate dynamically the response of a complex
landscape, containing forests, savannas, and grasslands, to potential climate change. Thus …

Faced with the growing problems of climate change, ecosystem degradation, declining
agricultural productivity, and uncertain food security, modern agricultural scientists look for …

A total of 148 Pinus pinaster trees from 18 farm plantations in south-western Australia were
destructively sampled to develop biomass and carbon mass prediction equations for …

The resource capture approach developed by John Monteith has been applied in studies of
a wide variety of plant species and cropping systems in the tropics over the past 18 years …