Below-Ground Interactions in Tropical Agroecosystems: Concepts and Models with Multiple Plant Components

By Meine van Noordwijk

This book provides a synthesis of plant-soil-plant interactions in agroforestry, intercropping and grass-legume interactions. It focuses on the process level, which is relevant to many types of multi-species agroecosystem. It also links basic research to practical applications in a wide range of systems with or without trees, and considers effects of global change on below-ground interactions. The contents include soil biodiversity and food webs, phosphorus dynamics and mobilization by plants, and crop and tree root-system dynamics. The book will be of significant interest to researchers in plant, crop and soil sciences as well as agroforestry.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851996736
• ISBN13: 9780851996738
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Cab International
• Length: 464 Pages