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• Haile, Aynalem, Principal Scientist - Small Ruminant Breeder, ICARDA, ICARDA
• Harrison, Rhett, Tropical forest ecologist and conservation biologist, ICRAF, ICRAF
• Hauser, Stefan, Root & Tuber Systems Agronomist, IITA, IITA
• Hergoualch, Kristell, Senior Scientist, CIFOR, CIFOR
• Leitner, Sonja, Scientist, ILRI, ILRI
• van Noordwijk, Meine, Distinguished Science Fellow, ICRAF, CIFOR
• Vanlauwe, Bernard, Director R4D, Central Africa and Natural Resource Management, IITA, The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT
• Verchot, Louis, Principal Scientist, Landscape Restoration, The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT
• Xu, Jianchu, Regional Coordinator-East and Central Asia, ICRAF, ICRAF

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• A review of thinning effects on Scots pine stands: From growth and yield to new challenges under global change
• Above- and belowground litter stocks and decay at a multi-species afforestation site on arid, saline soil
• Abundance of springtails (Collembola) under four agroforestry tree species with contrasting litter quality
• Alley cropping with Senna siamea in South-western Nigeria : I . Recovery of 15N labeled urea by the alley cropping system
• Arbuscular mycorrhiza enhance the rate of litter decomposition while inhibiting soil microbial community development
• Biology and habits of Mahanarva andigena (Hemiptera: Cercopidae) under screenhouse conditions
• Biomass production, nutrient uptake and partitioning in planted Senna spectabilis, Flemingia macrophylla and Dactyladenia barteri fallow systems over three fallow/cropping cycles on Ultisol
• Breeding ecology of rice field rats, Rattus argentiventer and R. tanezumi in lowland irrigated rice systems in the Philippines
• Carbon Storage of Caimpugan Peatland in Agusan Marsh, Philippines and its Role in Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
• Cassava leaf litter estimation in on-farm trials
• Cast production and NIR spectral signatures of Aporrectodea caliginosa fed soil with different amounts of half-decomposed Populus nigra litter
• Comparative study of earthworm communities, microbial biomass, and plant nutrient availability under 1-year Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp and Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet cultivations versus natural regrowths in a guinea savanna zone
• Decomposition and Nutrient Release from Intra-specific Mixtures of Legume Plant Materials
• Earthworm and microbe response to litter and soils of tropical forest plantations with contrasting C:N:P stoichiometric ratios
• Economic values for traits in breeding objectives for sheep in the tropics: impact of tangible and intangible benefits
• Economic values for traits of meat sheep in medium to high production potential areas of the tropics
• Effect of skidder disturbance on commercial tree regeneration in logging gaps in a Bolivian tropical forest
• Effects of Residue Management on Decomposition in Irrigated Rice Fields Are Not Related to Changes in the Decomposer Community.
• Effects of accession, spacing and pruning management on in-situ leaf litter decomposition of Jatropha curcas L. in Zambia
• Estimates of economic values for important traits of two indigenous Ethiopian sheep breeds
• Factors affecting reproductive performance and estimates of genetic parameters of litter size in Horro sheep
• Factors controlling bark decomposition and its role in wood decomposition in five tropical tree species.
• Feeding and performance of pigs in smallholder production systems in Northern Lao PDR.
• Fine root dynamics of shaded cacao plantations in Costa Rica
• Flammability of Two Mediterranean Mixed Forests: Study of the Non-additive Effect of Fuel Mixtures in Laboratory.
• Flowering phenology of tree rhododendron along an elevation gradient in two sites in the Eastern Himalayas
• Functional complement of biogenic structures produced by earthworms, termites and ants in the neotropical savannas
• Genetic and phenotypic parameter estimates for reproduction traits in indigenous Arsi-Bale goats
• Global decomposition experiment shows soil animal impacts on decomposition are climate-dependent
• Identification of breeding objectives for Begait goat in western Tigray, North Ethiopia.
• Impact of herbicide application on soil erosion and induced carbon loss in a rubber plantation of Southwest China
• Increased number of large non-atretic follicles and co-dominance effects account for high litter sizes in Bonga sheep.
• Increasing cuticular wax concentrations in a drier climate promote litter flammability
• Influence of tree leaf litters and paddy straw on the nutrient availability in two paddy soils of South Karnataka, India
• Invasion of Pontoscolex corethrurus (Glossoscolecidae, Oligochaeta) in landscapes of the Amazonian deforestation arc
• Legacy effects of drought on nitrate leaching in a temperate mixed forest on karst.
• Lignicolous freshwater fungi along a north-south latitudinal gradient in the Asian/Australian region; can we predict the impact of global warming on biodiversity and function?
• Litter decay in rangeland sites with varying history of human disturbance: a study with Hazargangi Chiltan mountain
• Litter layer residence time in forest and coffee agroforestry systems in Sumberjaya, West Lampung
• Litter quality impacts short- but not long-term soil carbon dynamics in soil aggregate fractions.
• Litterfall and nutrient return along a disturbance gradient in a tropical montane forest
• Litterfall production and associated carbon and nitrogen flux along exclosure chronosequence at Kewet district, central lowland of Ethiopia
• Modeling carbon stock dynamics under fallow and cocoa agroforest systems in the shifting agricultural landscape of Central Cameroon
• Models for reporting forest litter and soil C pools in national greenhouse gas inventories: methodological considerations and requirements
• Nitrous oxide emissions along a gradient of tropical forest disturbance on mineral soils in Sumatra
• Nutrient addition into soil by leaves of Cassia siamea and Gliricidia sepium grown on an ultisol in southern Nigeria.
• Organic Carbon Inputs by Soyabean in the West African Moist Savanna
• Pasture degradation impacts soil phosphorus storage via changes to aggregate-associated soil organic matter in highly weathered tropical soils
• Positive nitrogen balance of Acacia mangium woodlots as fallows in the Philippines based on 15N natural abundance data of N2 fixation
• Postfire nitrogen balance of Mediterranean shrublands: Direct combustion losses versus gaseous and leaching losses from the postfire soil mineral nitrogen flush
• Predicting chronosequential changes in carbon stocks of pachymorph bamboo communities in slash-and-burn agricultural fallow, northern Lao People's Democratic Republic
• Prevalence of multiple mating by female common dormice, Muscardinus avellanarius
• Production and nutrient content of earthworm casts in a tropical agrisilvicultural system
• Quantifying the factors affecting leaf litter decomposition across a tropical forest disturbance gradient
• Rapid characterization of Organic Resource Quality for Soil and Livestock Management in Tropical Agroecosystems Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy.
• Relative contributions of biotic and abiotic factors to the spatial variation of litter stock in a mature subtropical forest
• Residual phosphorus in runoff from successional forest on abandoned agricultural land: 1. Biogeochemical and hydrological processes
• Root decomposition in tropical grasses and legumes, as affected by soil texture and season
• Régime alimentaire d'un ver de terre anécique des savanes colombiennes : une remise en question des types écologiques
• Scale-dependent relationships between soil organic carbon stocks, land-use types and biophysical characteristics in a tropical montane landscape
• Season of grazing and stocking rate interactively affect fuel loads in Baikiaea plurijuga Harms woodland in northwestern Zimbabwe
• Small-scale variability in the contribution of invertebrates to litter decomposition in tropical rice fields
• Smouldering fire-induced changes in a Mediterranean soil (SE Spain): effects on germination, survival and morphological traits of 3-year-old Pinus pinaster Ait.
• Soil mineral N dynamics beneath mixtures of leaves from legume and fruit trees in Central Amazonian multi-strata agroforests
• Strong priming of soil organic matter induced by frequent input of labile carbon
• Sugar cane processing residue, bagasse, enhances decomposition of citrus leaves and could contribute to citrus black spot management
• THE INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON PREWEANING GROWTH PERFORMANCES IN ARSI-BALE GOATS.
• The effects of climate on decomposition of cattle, sheep and goat manure in Kenyan tropical pastures
• The uncoupling of secondary growth, cone and litter production by intradecadal climatic variability in a mediterranean scots pine forest
• Total and heterotrophic soil respiration in a swamp forest and oil palm plantations on peat in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia