Vegetation Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation in Agroforestry Systems
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Agroecology Innovation: Achieving System Resilience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2024) | Viewed by 1484
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ethnobotany; vegetation ecology; management of natural resources
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2. Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c), CHANGE-Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Faculty of Sciences (FCUL), University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: tropical agriculture; plant genomics; crop sustainability; sustainable production; molecular markers; food security; agrobiodiversity
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Agroforestry means both traditional and modern land use systems and practices where trees and other woody perennials are managed together with crops and/or livestock production systems in agricultural landscapes. Agroforestry systems can be considered a 'win-win' multifunctional land-use approach, combining commodity production and livelihood generation with non-commodity outputs such as environmental protection, and cultural and landscape amenities. Moreover, agroforestry systems are particularly suited to restoring the production potential of degraded areas and to improving environments with natural constraints thus being an important tool to address climate change.
This Special Issue aims to report the state of the art and disseminate recent advances in research on agroforestry systems worldwide, covering a wide diversity of systems and typologies in different environmental and socio-cultural conditions.
We welcome manuscripts on different areas of research on agroforestry systems, covering aspects of structure, composition, and function, as well as vegetation ecology and biodiversity conservation, and socio-economic relevance.
We invite research articles as well as reviews, mini-reviews, short communications, opinion and perspective papers dealing with, but not limited to, vegetation ecology, genetic diversity, land-use management, ecosystems services, sustainable production, plant–soil interactions, policy management, agrobiodiversity, non-timber forest products (NTFP), food and tree products, traditional and/or modern agriculture practices and economic value of agroforestry.
Dr. Luís Catarino
Dr. Filipa Monteiro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agroecology
- agrobiodiversity
- agricultural practices
- land-use management
- non-timber forest products
- intercropping
- sustainable agriculture
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