Edzo Veldkamp

Justus van Ramshorst and colleagues ‪@bioclimatology.bsky.social‬ show that compared to conventional cropland, alley cropping #agroforestry in #Germany has a higher NEP, GPP and carbon sequestration. Research from Bonares-SIGNAL.
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Fungal and bacterial colonization of maize litter during decomposition in a temperate arable and grassland alley-cropping system - Plant and Soil Aims Alley-cropping systems (ACS) often increase soil organic matter and microbial biomass with unknown effects on the decomposition of harvest residues. The central objective of the current field stu...

Katharina Giray, Lukas Beule and colleagues just published a study in Plant & Soil conducted in Bonares-SIGNAL:
Fungal and bacterial colonization of maize litter during decomposition in a temperate alley-cropping system

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#Agroforestry

Seeds rescued from India’s coffee farms could help forest restoration Coffee agroforests in India’s Western Ghats mountains, where coffee shrubs are grown under the shade of trees, could be a good source of seeds for forest restoration efforts, according to a recent stu...

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Frontiers | Evaluating ecosystem multifunctionality in tree-based intercropping: a case study from southern Québec, Canada

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Nice to see an interesting article evaluating the multifunctionality of #agroforestry in #Canada. This is to my knowledge the second article analyzing this after we analyzed multifunctionality of alley cropping systems in #Germany (see rdcu.be/eldIK)

Indonesia’s deforestation claims under scrutiny over ‘cherry-picked’ data JAKARTA — Researchers have called out the Indonesian government’s claim of having reduced deforestation by 90% over the past decade, pointing to cherry-picked data and a skewed baseline that paint an ...

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Interested in ecosystem functions of #agroforestry? Victoria Sagolla, Lukas Beule and Andreas Schuldt just published a study conducted in Bonares-SIGNAL on aphid and seed predation alley cropping systems in #Germany

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Reduction of deforestation by agroforestry in high carbon stock forests of Southeast Asia Nature Sustainability - Agroforestry is a natural climate solution providing ecological and socio-economic benefits at local scales, however whether it reduces deforestation at landscape scale is...

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The surprising culprit for the loss of huge swathes of tropical forest Analysis of satellite imagery of the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin and New Guinea helps to show that ‘secondary’ roads take an outsized toll.

The first detailed analysis of ‘secondary roads’ — those that sprout off the first road cut through an undeveloped forest — shows that they can cause forest loss hundreds of times greater than that caused by the original road

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Ecologists are spending less time in the field. That could be a problem. Ecologists are spending less time in the field. That could be a problem. There was a time when an ecologist’s education was not complete without the mud of a marsh on their boots or the scent of damp ...

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Le phosphore et le potassium, des nutriments pour améliorer la résilience des forêts à la sécheresse Les forêts qui disposent de plus de nutriments s’avèrent plus résilientes à la sécheresse saisonnière. Celles qui n’en ont pas assez traversent péniblement une telle période, plus encore lorsque la sé...

In an article, Didier Makal, @mongabay.bsky.social, wrote about our publication on the nutrient addition experiment in an afro- #tropical #forest published last year in @naturegeosci.bsky.social

The photograph does not really fit 😄

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Photograph taken in the tree row of an alley cropping system in Germany. Photo credits: Peter Hahn

#Agroforestry is often mentioned for its potential to mitigate #GHG emissions in #agriculture. In a new paper headed by Guodong Shao and @gomartinson.bsky.social, we show that alley cropping agroforestry had higher #soil #CH4 uptake compared to #monocultures

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Nitrogen and potassium limit fine root growth in a humid Afrotropical forest Scientific Reports - Nitrogen and potassium limit fine root growth in a humid Afrotropical forest

Interested in root growth of #tropical #forest ? We showed in a study led by Raphael Manu that fine root growth was limited by #soil #nutrients #nitrogen and #potassium but not #phosphorus in a Afrotropical forest
#Uganda #Africa

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