Climate change and tree genetic resource management: Maintaining and enhancing the productivity and value of smallholder tropical agroforestry landscapes. A review

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-78

  Dawson, Ian K ^a   Vinceti, Barbara ^b   Weber, John C ^c   Neufeldt, Henry ^a   Russell, Joanne ^d   Lengkeek, Ard G ^e   Kalinganire, Antoine ^c   Kindt, Roeland ^a   Lillesø, Jens Peter B ^f   Roshetko, Jim ^a,g   Jamnadass, Ramni ^a  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b BIOVERSITY INTERNATIONAL   (Italy)

^c West and Central Africa Regional Office   (Mali)

^d SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e Tree Domestication Team   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g Winrock International   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Tree genetic resources; Tropical smallholder agroforestry

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; GENETIC RESOURCE; GERMPLASM; LANDSCAPE; MITIGATION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEED; SEEDLING; SUSTAINABILITY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78649988870     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-010-9302-2     Document Type: Review

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