Cropland agroforestry 2019-2020

Data were collected at a short rotation coppice agroforestry site established at Wendhausen (Lower Saxony, Germany) in 2008. At this site, 10 m wide poplar strips ("Max 1" (P. nigra L. x P. maximowiczii Henry)) are alternating with 48 m wide crop alleys. Yield and selected quality parameters of annual crop plants were assessed in 2019 and 2020. The total amount of litter per square meter was assessed yearly during the whole period of litterfall. The biomass yield of the poplar short-rotation coppice was estimated yearly. Timber harvest was conducted in February 2021, 7 years after the last harvest.

Swieter, A., Langhof, M., & Lamerre, J. (2022). Competition, stress and benefits: Trees and crops in the transition zone of a temperate short rotation alley cropping agroforestry system. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science, 208(2), 209-224.

Langhof, M; Schmiedgen, A. (2023). 13 years of biomass production from three poplar clones in a temperate short-rotation alley cropping agroforestry system. Biomass and Bioenergy. 175: 106853. Accepted