Poster / Presentation

Carbon Enrichment Not Fully Explained by Tree Litter or Animal Manure Inputs in a Simulated Faidherbia-Maize Parkland

author(s) Smethurst P J - Dilla A - Huth N
from World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
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themes
regions
  • Eastern Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
  • World
  • Southern Africa
  • Western Africa
  • Northern Africa
citation

Smethurst P J; Dilla A; Huth N, 'Carbon Enrichment Not Fully Explained by Tree Litter or Animal Manure Inputs in a Simulated Faidherbia-Maize Parkland', 2019

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Abstract

• Faidherbia albida is an N-fixing tree native to many countries across a wide range of semi-arid, sub-Saharan Africa, including Ethiopia. • Several researchers have recorded higher concentrations of C under tree canopies than in adjacent crop-only areas, and speculated about the role of tree litter inputs and indirect mechanisms. • Natural regeneration of Faidherbia can also be favoured on pre-existing fertile microsites, e.g. generated by termites

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