Tree and litter composition influences soil macrofauna in multi-strata agroforestry systems of Talamanca, Costa Rica

Table 2 Agroforestry trees ranked by farmers according to their suitability to provide ES in different rainfall zones of Central Uganda; trees listed direct ly below each ES

We compared in August 2017 soil fertility from two management levels (organic and conventional, Table 1), both management being declined in three shade trees association:

Five of the sample plots exceeded 167 m3 ha'1 of wood. In three plots, density of bananas was up to 1733 plants per hectare, a density similar to intensive banana

General method VHSR image Tree locations automatic Tree locations manual Tree crown diameters automatic Tree crown diameters manual Tree height automatic Tree

1- CIRAD, UMR Eco&Sols, Montpellier, France 2- UM2, UMR AMAP, Montpellier, France 3- IRD, UMR AMP, Montpellier, France 4- INRIA, Ariana/I3S, Sophia-Antipolis, France 5-

- High (HR) and moderate (MR) resolution NDVI were calibrated using field-truth and we derived HR-LAI maps and MR-LAI dynamics, for full sun coffee or for little shade.

Soil quality is a concept often considered as non-objective because no absolute reference to an optimal quality can be identified. This is a consequence of the extreme variability

Generalized linear models (GLMs) were then used to investigate the rela- tionship between tree recruitment (number of seedlings and saplings 0–500 cm) in the first 4 years after