Carbon sequestration potentials in temperate tree-based intercropping systems, southern Ontario, Canada

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 243-257

  Peichl, Matthias ^a   Thevathasan, Naresh V ^b   Gordon, Andrew M ^b   Huss, Jürgen ^c   Abohassan, Refaat A ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

C pools and fluxes; C sequestration; Greenhouse gases; Inter (alley) cropping; Sole cropping; Temperate zone

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; INTERCROPPING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO;

HORDEUM VULGARE; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; POPULUS DELTOIDES; POPULUS NIGRA;

EID: 33644605628     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-005-0361-8     Document Type: Article

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