This book provides a synthesis of plant-soil-plant interactions from the plot to landscape scale. It focuses on the process level, which is relevant to many types of multispecies agroecosystems (agroforestry, intercropping and others). It also links basic research to practical application (and indigenous knowledge) in a wide range of systems with or without trees, and considers implications of below-ground interactions for the environment and global change issues. The contents include root architecture and dynamics, plant-soil biota interactions, soil biodiversity and food webs, water and nutrient cycling, and the necessary linkage to modelling approaches.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-428) and index.

Foreword / D.P. Garrity -- Ecological Interactions in Multispecies Agroecosystems : Concepts and Rules / C.K. Ong, R.M. Kho and S. Radersma -- Locally Derived Knowledge of Soil Fertility and Its Emerging Role in Integrated Natural Resource Management / L. Joshi, P.K. Shrestha, C. Moss and F.L. Sinclair -- Models of Below-ground Interactions : Their Validity, Applicability and Beneficiaries / R. Matthews, M. van Noordwijk, A.J. Gijsman and G. Cadisch -- Tree Root Architecture / F.K. Akinnifesi, E.C. Rowe, S.J. Livesley, F.R. Kwesiga, B. Vanlauwe and J.C. Alegre -- Crop and Tree Root-system Dynamics / M. van Noordwijk, S. Rahayu, S.E. Williams, K. Hairiah, N. Khasanah and G. Schroth -- Opportunities for Capture of Deep Soil Nutrients / R.J. Buresh, E.C. Row, S.J. Livesley, G. Cadisch and P. Mafongoya -- Phosphorus Dynamics and Mobilization by Plants / P.F. Grierson, P. Smithson, G. Nziguheba, S. Radersma and N.B. Comerford -- Managing Soil Acidity and Aluminium Toxicity in Tree-based Agroecosystems / M.T.F. Wong, K. Hairiah and J. Alegre -- Uptake, Partitioning and Redistribution of Water by Roots in Mixed-species Agroecosystems / M. Smith, S.S.O. Burgess, D. Suprayogo, B. Lusiana and Widianto -- Catching and Competing for Mobile Nutrients in Soils / G. Cadisch, P. de Willigen, D. Suprayogo, D.C. Mobbs, M. van Noordwijk and E.C. Rowe -- Below-ground Inputs : Relationships with Soil Quality, Soil C Storage and Soil Structure / A. Albrecht, G. Cadisch, E. Blanchart, S.M. Sitompul and B. Vanlauwe -- Soil-Atmosphere Gas Exchange in Tropical Agriculture : Contributions to Climate Change / L.V. Verchot, A. Mosier, E.M. Baggs and C. Palm -- Benefiting from N2-Fixation and Managing Rhizobia / P.L. Mafongoya, K.E. Giller, D. Odee, S. Gathumbi, S.k. Ndufa and S.M. Sitompul -- Managing Mycorrhiza in Tropical Multispecies Agroecosystems / T.W. Kuyper, I.M. Cardoso, N.A. Onguene, Murniati and M. van Noordwijk -- Nematodes and Other Soilborne Pathogens in Agroforestry / J. Desaeger, M.R. Rao and J. Bridge -- Soil Biodiversity and Food Webs / F.X. Susilo, A.M. Neutel, M. van Noordwijk, K. Hairiah, G. Brown and M.J. Swift -- Managing Below-ground Interactions in Agroecosystems / M.R. Rao, G. Schroth, S.E. Williams, S. Namirembe, M. Schaller and J. Wilson -- Managing Movements of Water, Solutes and Soil : from Plot to Landscape Scale / S.B.L. Ranieri, R. Stirzaker, D. Suprayogo, E. Purwanto, P. de Willigen and M. van Noordwijk -- Soil and Water Movement : Combining Local Ecological Knowledge with that of Modellers when Scaling up from Plot to Landscape Level / L. Joshi, W. Schalenbourg, L. Johansson, N. Khasanah, E. Stefanus, M.H. Fagerström and M. van Noordwijk -- Challenges for the Next Decade of Research on Below-ground Interactions in Tropical Agroecosystems : Client-driven Solutions at Landscape Scale / M. van Noordwijk, G. Cadisch and C.K. Ong.

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