Intraspecific leaf economic trait variation partially explains coffee performance across agroforestry management regimes

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 200, Issue , 2015, Pages 151-160

  Gagliardi, Stephanie ^a   Martin, Adam R ^a   Filho, Elias de M Virginio ^b   Rapidel, Bruno ^b,c   Isaac, Marney E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CATIE   (Costa Rica)

^c CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

Coffea arabica; Costa Rica; Erythrina poeppigiana; Functional traits; Leaf economics spectrum; Resource acquisition; Shade trees

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGROFORESTRY; COFFEE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; CROP PERFORMANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENETIC VARIATION; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE;

COSTA RICA;

COFFEA ARABICA; ERYTHRINA POEPPIGIANA;

EID: 84912049105     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2014.11.014     Document Type: Article

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