Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: intercrops and ecology
- 2 The measurement of intercrop performance
- 3 The competitive production principle
- 4 Facilitation
- 5 Mechanisms of the competitive production principle
- 6 The environments modified to produce facilitation
- 7 Special problems in intercrops involving perennials
- 8 Weeds and intercrops
- 9 Variability and intercrops
- 10 Planning intercrops – a phenomenological approach
- 11 Planning intercrops – a mechanistic approach
- 12 Critical research directions for the future
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: intercrops and ecology
- 2 The measurement of intercrop performance
- 3 The competitive production principle
- 4 Facilitation
- 5 Mechanisms of the competitive production principle
- 6 The environments modified to produce facilitation
- 7 Special problems in intercrops involving perennials
- 8 Weeds and intercrops
- 9 Variability and intercrops
- 10 Planning intercrops – a phenomenological approach
- 11 Planning intercrops – a mechanistic approach
- 12 Critical research directions for the future
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
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- The Ecology of Intercropping , pp. 231 - 237Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989