Agroforestry for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services - Science and Practice

InTech, 2012. - 164 p. ISBN 978-953-51-0493-3.Agroforestry has great potential for reducing deforestation and forest degradation, providing rural livelihoods and habitats for species outside formally protected land, and alleviating resource-use pressure on conservation areas. However, widespread adoption of agroforestry innovations is still constrained by a myriad of factors including design features of candidate agroforestry innovations, perceived needs, policies, availability and distribution of factors of production, and perception of risks. Understanding the science, and factors that regulate the adoption, of agroforestry and how they impact the implementation of agroforestry is vitally important. Agroforestry for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Science and Practice examines design features and management practices of some agroforestry practices and their impact on biodiversity and the ecosystem services it delivers. It also identifies policy issues for facilitating adoption of desirable agroforestry practices and gradual diminution of undesirable policies.Contents
Consumption of Acorns by Finishing Iberian Pigs and Their Function in the Conservation of the Dehesa Agroecosystem
A Conceptual Model of Carbon Dynamics for Improved Fallows in the Tropics
Drivers of Parasitoid Wasps' Community Composition in Cacao Agroforestry Practice in Bahia State, Brazil
The Effects of Tree-Alfalfa Intercropped Systems on Wood Quality in Temperate Regions
Shoot Pruning and Impact on Functional Equilibrium Between Shoots and Roots in Simultaneous Agroforestry Systems
Improved Policies for Facilitating the Adoption of Agroforestry
Mainstreaming Agroforestry Policy in Tanzania Legal Framework
Effectiveness of Grassroots Organisations in the Dissemination of Agroforestry Innovations