Soil water regime under rotational fallow and alternating hedgerows on an Ultisol in southern Cameroon

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-82

  Hauser, S ^a   Norgrove, L ^a,c   Duguma, B ^b   Asaah, E ^b  

^a Int'l Inst of Tropical Agriculture   (Cameroon)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alley cropping; Gliricidia sepium; Leucaena leucocephala; Natural fallow; Nutrient cycling; Planted fallow

Indexed keywords

ALLEY CROPPING; HEDGEROW; NUTRIENT LOSS; SOIL WATER;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; WORLD;

GLIRICIDIA SEPIUM; LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA; LEUCOCEPHALA; LEUCOCEPHALA LEUCOCEPHALA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 19944414046     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-005-2442-0     Document Type: Article

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