Citation:
J.H.N. Palma, A.R. Graves, P.J. Burgess, K.J. Keesman, H. van Keulen, M. Mayus,
Y. Reisner, F. Herzog, Methodological approach for the assessment of
environmental effects of agroforestry at the landscape scale, Ecological
Engineering, Volume 29, Issue 4, Carbon sequestration and landscape ecology in
Western Europe, 1 April 2007, Pages 450-462
Abstract:
Silvoarable agroforestry, the deliberate combined use of trees and arable crops
on the same area of land, has been proposed in order to improve the
environmental performance of agricultural systems in Europe. Based on existing
models and algorithms, we developed a method to predict the environmental
effects of SAF at a farm and landscape scale. The method is comprised of an
assessment of soil erosion, nitrogen leaching, carbon sequestration, and
landscape diversity and allowed the comparison of the environmental performance
of SAF with arable systems using these four indicators.
