Crop production under different rainfall and management conditions in agroforestry parkland systems in Burkina Faso: Observations and simulation with WaNuLCAS model

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 13-28

  Coulibaly, Y N ^a,b   Mulia, R ^c   Sanou, J ^a   Zombre G ^b   Bayala, J ^d   Kalinganire, A ^d   van Noordwijk, M ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT ET DE RECHERCHES AGRICOLES   (Burkina Faso)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE OUAGADOUGOU   (Burkina Faso)

^c CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^d WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Climate change; Hydraulic redistribution; Modeling; Roots; Scenarios; Tree soil crop interactions; WaNuLCAS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895074696     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-013-9651-8     Document Type: Article

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