Methodological approach for the assessment of environmental effects of agroforestry at the landscape scale.
Date
2007-04-01T00:00:00Z
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Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam.
Department
Type
Article
ISSN
0925-8574
Format
Free to read from
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.
Description
Software Description
Software Language
Github
Keywords
Erosion, Nitrogen leaching, Carbon sequestration, Landscape diversity, Modeling, Alley cropping