Termite damage to maize grown in agroforestry systems, traditional fallows and monoculture on nitrogen-limited soils in eastern Zambia

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 61-69

  Sileshi, G ^a   Mafongoya, P L ^a   Kwesiga, F ^b   Nkunika, P ^c  

^a Zambia ICRAF Agroforestry Project   (Zambia)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Improved fallows; Organic matter quality; Termites

Indexed keywords

ACACIA; ACACIA ANGUSTISSIMA; CANDIDA; GLIRICIDIA; GLIRICIDIA SEPIUM; ISOPTERA; LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA; SESBANIA; SESBANIA SESBAN; TEPHROSIA; TEPHROSIA CANDIDA; TEPHROSIA VOGELII; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 13544254491     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-9555.2005.00242.x     Document Type: Article

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