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Baseline soil characteristics of a humid tropical silvopastoral system and changes in selected soil properties
(IICA, San José (Costa Rica), 1993-01)
We established fast-growing leguminous trees (Erythrina berteroana Urban) in native grass pastures in Costa Rica's Atlantic region to determine the effects of tree pruning and cattle grazing on soil phosphorus availability ...
Coffee agroforestry systems capable of reducing disease-induced yield and economic losses while providing multiple ecosystem services
(2020)
Crop losses caused by pests and diseases decrease the incomes and threaten the livelihoods of thousands of families worldwide.During two years, in a research network of 61 coffee plots under a wide variety of shade and ...
Effects of trees on infiltrability and preferential flow in two contrasting agroecosystems in Central America
(2014)
We tested the hypothesis that trees have measurable effects on infiltrability, macroporosity, and pref-erential flows in agrosilvopastoral systems. Managing agricultural systems for water conservation is acritical component ...
Generation of alternative land use options: examples for the livestock sector
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba (Costa Rica), 1999)
UNU proposal: traditional agroforestry practices in the wet tropics; the La Suiza, Costa Rica case study
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 1979)
Agro-forestry for improvements of deforested mountain lands in Costa Rica, a pilot study
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Program of Natural Renewable Resources, 1981)
Research on agro-forestry has been carried out at Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, (CATIE), Turrialba, Costa Rica, during the last two decades. In 1980, a collaboration program was started with the ...
Project with nitrogen-fixing trees Leucaena-Calliandra: final report
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica) Autoridad Sueca para la Cooperación en la Investigación con los Países en Desarrollo, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 1994)