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Biodiversity in the cacao agroecosystem: shade management and landscape considerations
The ability of cacao farms to harbor biological diversity—particularly forest dependent species—is known for only a few taxa (primarily ants and birds) and from a few sites. Much of what we suspect to be true of cacao farms ...
Shade effects on moisture relations of agroforestry systems
(1999)
Although competition of shade trees for water with shaded crops has been a major argument in favor of the removal of shade trees in agroforestry systems, experimental results do not always confirm that shade trees increase ...
Effect of pollarding frequency on biomass of Erythrina poeppigiana as a coffee shade tree
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba (Costa Rica), 1986)
The use of pollarded Erythrina poeppigiana as shade tree in coffee plantations is apparently and old practice in Costa Rica. The tree is not native to this country but was introduced between late 19th and 20th century and ...
Simulating the shading pattern of tree shade using shade motion 2.0
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2008)
ShadeMotion es un programa de cómputo diseñado para modelar la posición y movimiento de las sombras de árboles sobre el suelo. El usuario puede escoger cualquier distribución espacial de árboles dentro de una parcela ...