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• Costa, Flavia, Administradora Nacional - Country Administrator - ICRAF Brasil, ICRAF, ICRAF
• Gebrekirstos, Aster, Scientist-Systems, ICRAF, ICRAF
• Harmand, Jean-Michel, Senior Scientist Agro forester & Soil Science, ICRAF, ICRAF
• Harrison, Rhett, Tropical forest ecologist and conservation biologist, ICRAF, ICRAF
• Hergoualch, Kristell, Senior Scientist, CIFOR, CIFOR
• Martius, Christopher, Managing Director - Geschäftsführer CIFOR Germany gGmbH, CIFOR, CIFOR
• Murdiyarso, Daniel, Principal Scientist, CIFOR, CIFOR
• Six, Johan, Consultant, IITA, IITA
• 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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• Above- and belowground litter stocks and decay at a multi-species afforestation site on arid, saline soil
• Aboveground soil C inputs in the ecotone between Scots pine and Pyrenean oak in Sierra de Guadarrama
• Arbuscular mycorrhiza enhance the rate of litter decomposition while inhibiting soil microbial community development
• Carbon stocks, emissions, and aboveground productivity in restored secondary tropical peat swamp forests
• Cassava leaf litter estimation in on-farm trials
• Cassava varietal response to fertilization: growth dynamics and implications for cropping sustainability
• Climate seasonality limits carbon assimilation and storage in tropical forests
• Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests
• Differences in nitrogen cycling and soil mineralisation between a eucalypt plantation and a mixed eucalypt and Acacia mangium plantation on a sandy tropical soil
• Disentangling the positive and negative effects of trees on maize performance in smallholdings of Northern Rwanda
• Divergent Fire Regimes in Two Contrasting Mediterranean Chestnut Forest Landscapes
• Effects of accession, spacing and pruning management on in-situ leaf litter decomposition of Jatropha curcas L. in Zambia
• Effects of manipulated herbivore inputs on nutrient flux and decomposition in a tropical rainforest in Puerto Rico.
• Evaluation of methods for measuring microbial biomass C and N and relationships between microbial biomass and soil organic matter particle size classes in West-African soils
• Exclusion of soil macrofauna did not affect soil quality but increased crop yields in a sub-humid tropical maize-based system
• Fluxes of greenhouse gases from Andosols under coffee in monoculture or shaded by Inga densiflora in Costa Rica
• Foliar sprays of concentrated urea at maturity of pigeonpea to induce defoliation and increase its residual benefit to wheat
• Greenhouse gas emissions along a peat swamp forest degradation gradient in the Peruvian Amazon: soil moisture and palm roots effects
• How does replacing natural forests with rubber and oil palm plantations affect soil respiration and methane fluxes
• In situ leaf litter production, decomposition and nutrient release of dry Afromontane trees
• Increasing cuticular wax concentrations in a drier climate promote litter flammability
• LEGUME ROTATION IN THE MOIST TROPICAL SAVANNA: MANAGING SOIL NITROGEN DYNAMICS AND CEREAL YIELDS IN FARMERS' FIELDS
• Limited applicability of the CENTURY model to highly weathered tropical soils
• Linking crop structure, throughfall, soil surface conditions, runoff and soil detachment: 10 land uses analyzed in Northern Laos
• Litter and biomass production from planted and natural fallows on a degraded soil in southwestern Nigeria
• 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
• Living at the threshold: where does the neotropical phytoseiid mite Typhlodromalus aripo survive the dry season?
• Long-term effects of intensive rice–wheat and agroforestry based cropping systems on build-up of nutrients and budgets in alluvial soils of Punjab, India
• Long-term response of groundcover components to organic and conventional weed control in shaded and open-sun coffee in Nicaragua
• Maize responses to reduced tillage, different plant residue mulch and nitrogen fertiliser on granitic sandy soils of Zimbabwe
• Management of pigeon pea in short fallows for crop-livestock production systems in the Guinea savanna zone of northern Ghana
• Managing crop residues, fertilizers and leaf litters to improve soil C, nutrient balances, and the grain yield of rice and wheat cropping systems in Thailand and Australia
• Modelling of planted legume fallows in Western Kenya using WaNuLCAS. (I) Model calibration and validation
• Multi-spectral imaging of rhizobox systems: New perspectives for the observation and discrimination of rhizosphere components
• Positive nitrogen balance of Acacia mangium woodlots as fallows in the Philippines based on 15N natural abundance data of N2 fixation
• 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
• Residual phosphorus in runoff from successional forest on abandoned agricultural land: 1. Biogeochemical and hydrological processes
• Soil microarthropod populations under natural and planted fallows in southwestern Nigeria
• 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 uncoupling of secondary growth, cone and litter production by intradecadal climatic variability in a mediterranean scots pine forest
• Trace gas fluxes and nitrogen cycling along an elevation sequence of tropical montane forests in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
• Young shade trees improve soil quality in intensively managed coffee systems recently converted to agroforestry in Yunnan Province, China