The central agroforestry hypothesis: The trees must acquire resources that the crop would not otherwise acquire

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 27-31

  Cannell, M G R ^a   Van Noordwijk, M ^b   Ong, C K ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

agroforestry hypotheses; competition; resource capture

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029805104     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00129630     Document Type: Article

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