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The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts
Biodiversity continues to decline in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures such as habitat destruction, exploitation, pollution and introduction of alien species. Existing global databases of species’ threat status ...
A protocol for the conceptualisation of an agro-ecosystem to guide data acquisition and analysis and expert knowledge integration
Innovative agricultural systems need to combine the production of goods with the provision of environmental
services. When agronomists analyse or design multifunctional agro-ecosystems, they thus need
to include knowledge ...
Agricultural Activity concept for simulating strategic agricultural production decisions: Case study of weed resistance to herbicide treatments in South-West France
In an uncertain socio-economic and climatic context, sustainable farming is a major challenge for farmers as well as for their agricultural advisors. It is therefore essential to develop a decision support tool (DST) that ...
Effects of walnut trees on biological nitrogen fixation and yield of intercropped alfalfa in a Mediterranean agroforestry system
tWhile intercropping annual non nitrogen-fixing crops with deciduous hardwood species is now welldocumented, there is a need to investigate if nitrogen-fixing intercrops may succeed in agroforestrysystems. Intercropping ...
Effect of combined deficit irrigation and grass competition at plantation on peach tree root distribution
Agroforestry systems success is predicated on the assumption of root spatial separation between the tree and the crop species. Such a feature, where tree roots prospect subsoil horizons whereas intercrop roots prospect top ...
Ties that Bind: France and ICARDA
The government of France and a number of French research organizations have supported ICARDA’s work for more than 30 years. This support has helped to significantly improve farm productivity, incomes and livelihoods in dry ...