Effects of calliandra planting pattern on biomass production and nutrient accumulation in planted fallows of southern Cameroon

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 179, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 535-545

  Nolte, C ^a,c   Tiki Manga, T ^b   Badjel Badjel, S ^b   Gockowski, J ^a   Hauser, S ^a   Weise, S F ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Cameroon)

^b Institut de la Recherche Agronomique   (Cameroon)

^c c/o Lambourn and Co ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Biomass production; Calliandra tree fallows; Cameroon; Nutrient accumulation; Tree planting pattern

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CROPS; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY;

NUTRIENTS;

VEGETATION;

CALLIANDRA; CHROMOLAENA; CHROMOLAENA ODORATA;

EID: 0038383004     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(02)00555-8     Document Type: Article

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