BIODIVERSITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 9 docx

BIODIVERSITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 9 docx

BIODIVERSITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 9 docx

... Agriculture, Washington, D.C., 199 6. © 199 9 by CRC Press LLC. Block, W. M., Finchand, D. M., and Brennan, L. A., 199 5. Single-species versus multiple- species approaches for management, in Ecology ... approximately 6000 dead Swainson’s hawks over two seasons (Goldstein et al., 199 6; Goldstein, 199 7). Hawks died in fields while foraging for grasshoppers, in roosts after returning fr...
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BIODIVERSITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 8 docx

BIODIVERSITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 8 docx

... resources, Ambio, 23: 390 – 395 . ICRAF, 199 5. 199 4 Annual Report, ICRAF, Nairobi, Kenya. ICRAF, 199 7. ICRAF Medium-Term Plan 199 8-2 000, ICRAF, Nairobi, Kenya. Ingram, J., 199 0. The role of trees in maintaining and ... M. J., 199 4. On agricultural sustainability and its measurement in small-scale farming in sub-Saharan Africa, Ecol. Econ., 11:105–125. © 199 9 by CRC Press LLC....
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BIODIVERSITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 2 pps

BIODIVERSITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 2 pps

... processes (Tilman, 199 6), maintaining and increasing protozoan biodiversity will contribute to more sustainable agriculture. Ecofarming and organic fertilizer management enhance pro- tozoan activity. Protozoa ... et al., 199 3) and is associated with increased nitrogen mineralization (DeRuiter et al., 199 3). Using testacea as bioindicators, Wodarz et al. ( 199 2) found organically farmed...
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BIODIVERSITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 3 doc

BIODIVERSITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 3 doc

... Heterodera, and Praty- lenchus spp., has been observed (Mai, 198 5; Barker et al., 199 4). However, when entire nematode communities, including free-living nematodes, are examined, a © 199 9 by CRC Press ... Larink, O., 199 5. Grazing preferences of some Collembola for endomycor- rhizal fungi, Biol. Fertil. Soils, 19: 266–268. © 199 9 by CRC Press LLC. Lawton, J. H. and Brown, V. K., 199 3. R...
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BIODIVERSITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 4 pptx

BIODIVERSITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 4 pptx

... Nentwig, 198 8; 199 2; 199 3; 199 4; 199 5; Frei and Manhart, 199 2; Weiss and Nentwig, 199 2; Hausmann, 199 6). Wyss ( 199 5) showed that in apple orchards certain flowering weed strips resulted in more aphidophagous ... Messenger, 197 3; Morris and Weeb, 198 7; Basedow, 198 8; Holtz, 198 8; Klingauf, 198 8; Welling and Kokta, 198 8). Dover ( 199 1) and Samways ( 199 3) showed that 6-m-w...
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BIODIVERSITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 5 doc

BIODIVERSITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 5 doc

... Nicholls CONTENTS Introduction The Nature and Function of Biodiversity in Agroecosystems Patterns of Insect Biodiversity in Agroecosystems Plant Biodiversity and Insect Stability in Agroecosystems Patterns ... nutrient cycling, water and soil conser- vation, etc. © 199 9 by CRC Press LLC. Vandermeer, J., 198 9. The Ecology of Intercropping, Cambridge University Press, Cambri...
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BIODIVERSITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 6 pdf

BIODIVERSITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 6 pdf

... from 4.2 million head in 195 0 to 9. 6 million in 199 2 (Kaimonitz, 199 5). In Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, the decline in the forest area is mainly the result of crop expansion. In the temperate zones, ... practicing livestock production in a manner which helps promote biodiversity. © 199 9 by CRC Press LLC. over the period 199 0 through 199 4. In South America, the deforest...
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BIODIVERSITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 7 pdf

BIODIVERSITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 7 pdf

... also increases in abundance following exces- sive livestock grazing in the spring (West and Young, 199 8). Livestock grazing also reduces the chance of fires by removal of fine fuels in the interspaces ... litter (Lesica and DeLuca, 199 6) and the miner- © 199 9 by CRC Press LLC. Harniss, R. O. and Murray, R. B., 197 3. 30 years of vegetal change following burning of sagebrush-grass range...
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BIODIVERSITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 11 pps

BIODIVERSITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 11 pps

... 1) in the climax stage of succession (Odum, 196 9). An increase in physical (inorganic) materials in urban systems coincides with a decreasing P/R ratio (i.e., a significant increase in main- tenance ... in the management of agroecosys- tems (Paoletti et al., 199 2). Paoletti et al. ( 199 2) and Paoletti ( 199 5) note that sustainable strategies in food production in agriculture...
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BIODIVERSITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 12 pps

BIODIVERSITY IN AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 12 pps

... London. Sperling, L., Loevinsohn, M. E., and Ntabomvra, B., 199 3. Rethinking the farmer’s role in plant breeding: local bean experts and on-station selection in Rwanda, Exp. Agric., 29: 5 09 5 19. Struever, ... simultaneously (Maurya et al., 198 8; Sperling et al., 199 3; de Boef et al., 199 3; Sperling and Scheidegger, 199 5; Witcombe et al., 199 6). SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL DI...
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