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Abrol, D. P., Shankar, U., Chatterjee, D., and Ramamurthy, V. V. (2012). Exploratory studies on diversity of bees with special emphasis on non-Apis pollinators in some natural and agricultural plants of Jammu division, India. Current Science, 103(7), 780-783.

Acharya, G. P., McDonald, M. A., Tripathi, B. P., Gardner, R. M., and Mawdesley, K. J. (2007). Nutrient losses from rain-fed bench terraced cultivation systems in high rainfall areas of the mid-hills of Nepal. Land Degradation and Development, 18(5), 486-499. doi: 10.1002/ldr.792

Acharya, K. P. (2006). Linking trees on farms with biodiversity conservation in subsistence farming systems in Nepal. Biodiversity and Conservation, 15(2), 631-646. doi: 10.1007/s10531-005-2091-7

Ackerman, I. L., Constantino, R., Gauch, H. G., Jr., Lehmann, J., Riha, S. J., and Fernandes, E. C. M. (2009). Termite (Insecta: Isoptera) Species Composition in a Primary Rain Forest and Agroforests in Central Amazonia. Biotropica, 41(2), 226-233. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2008.00479.x

Adjei-Nsiah, S., Kuyper, T. W., Leeuwis, C., Abekoe, M. K., and Giller, K. E. (2007). Evaluating sustainable and profitable cropping sequences with cassava and four legume crops: Effects on soil fertility and maize yields in the forest/savannah transitional agro-ecological zone of Ghana. Field Crops Research, 103 (2), 87-97.

AduGyamfi, J. J., Ito, O., Yoneyama, T., Devi, G., and Katayama, K. (1997). Timing of N fertilisation on N-2 fixation, N recovery and soil profile nitrate dynamics on sorghum/pigeonpea intercrops on Alfisols on the semi-arid tropics. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, 48(3), 197-208. doi: 10.1023/a:1009788818738

Aerts, R., Hundera, K., Berecha, G., Gijbels, P., Baeten, M., Van Mechelen, M., Honnay, O. (2011). Semi-forest coffee cultivation and the conservation of Ethiopian Afromontane rainforest fragments. Forest Ecology and Management, 261(6), 1034-1041. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.12.025

Agele, S. O. (2008). Influence of Short-duration Legume Fallow on N Availability and Performance of Tomato in a Tropical Rainforest Zone of Nigeria. Agriculturae Conspectus Scientificus, 73(3), 143-148.

Aguiar, A. d. C. F., Cândido, C. S., Carvalho, C. S., Monroe, P. H. M., and de Moura, E. G. (2013). Organic matter fraction and pools of phosphorus as indicators of the impact of land use in the Amazonian periphery. Ecological Indicators, 30(0), 158-164. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.02.010

Aguiar, M. I., Fialho, J. S., Campanha, M. M., and Oliveira, T. S. (2014). Carbon sequestration and nutrient reserves under different land use systems. Revista Arvore, 38(1), 81-93.

Aguirre-Dugua, X., and Eguiarte, L. E. (2013). Genetic diversity, conservation and sustainable use of wild Agave cupreata and Agave potatorum extracted for mezcal production in Mexico. Journal of Arid Environments, 90, 36-44. doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2012.10.018

Akinnifesi, F. K., Kang, B. T., Sanginga, N., and Tijani-Eniola, H. (1996). Nitrogen use efficiency and N-competition between Leucaena hedgerows and maize in an alley cropping system. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, 47(1),71-80. doi: 10.1007/bf01985720

Alam, M. K., Islam, M. M., Salahin, N., and Hasanuzzaman, M. (2014). Effect of Tillage Practices on Soil Properties and Crop Productivity in Wheat-Mungbean-Rice Cropping System under Subtropical Climatic Conditions. Scientific World Journal. doi: 10.1155/2014/437283

Alberto, M. C. R., Buresh, R. J., Hirano, T., Miyata, A., Wassmann, R., Quilty, J. R. and Sandro, J. (2013). Carbon uptake and water productivity for dry-seeded rice and hybrid maize grown with overhead sprinkler irrigation. Field Crops Research, 146, 51-65.

Ali, M. (1996). Quantifying the socio-economic determinants of sustainable crop production:

An application to wheat cultivation in the Tarai of Nepal. Agricultural Economics, 14(1), 45-60. doi: 10.1016/0169-5150(95)01161-7

Ali, M. (1999). Evaluation of green manure technology in tropical lowland rice systems.Field Crops Research, 61(1), 61-78. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0378-4290(98)00149-X

Alou, I. N., Van Asten, P. , Tenywa, M. . (2014). Biophysical and crop management gradients limiting yields of east African highland banana (Musa spp. AAA-EA) within farms in low input cropping systems. International Journal of Agricultural Science and Research (IJASR), 4(3), 27-44.

Altieri, M. A., and Trujillo, J. (1987). The agroecology of corn production in Tlaxcala, Mexico. Human Ecology, 15(2), 189-220. doi: 10.1007/bf00888380

Alvarez, S., Rufino, M. C., Vayssieres, J., Salgado, P., Tittonell, P., Tillard, E., and Bocquier, F. (2014). Whole-farm nitrogen cycling and intensification of crop-livestock systems in the highlands of Madagascar: An application of network analysis. Agricultural Systems, 126, 25-37. doi: 10.1016/j.agsy.2013.03.005

Amorim Silva do Sacramento, J. A., de Moraes Araujo, A. C., Ortiz Escobar, M. E., da Silva Xavier, F. A., Rodrigues Cavalcante, A. C., and de Oliveira, T. S. (2013). Soil carbon and nitrogen stocks in traditional agricultural and agroforestry systems in the semiarid region of Brazil. Revista Brasileira De Ciencia Do Solo, 37(3), 784-795.

An, S., Mentler, A., Mayer, H., and Blum, W. E. H. (2010). Soil aggregation, aggregate stability, organic carbon and nitrogen in different soil aggregate fractions under forest and shrub vegetation on the Loess Plateau, China. Catena, 81(3), 226-233. doi: 10.1016/j.catena.2010.04.002

Ango, T. G., Borjeson, L., Senbeta, F., and Hylander, K. (2014). Balancing Ecosystem Services and Disservices: Smallholder Farmers' Use and Management of Forest and Trees in an Agricultural Landscape in Southwestern Ethiopia. Ecology and Society, 19(1). doi: 10.5751/es-06279-190130

Anikwe, M. A. N. (2010). Carbon storage in soils of Southeastern Nigeria under different management practices. Carbon Balance and Management, 5(5),1-7.

Araya, T., Cornelis, W. M., Nyssen, J., Govaerts, B., Bauer, H., Gebreegziabher, T., Deckers, J. (2011). Effects of conservation agriculture on runoff, soil loss and crop yield under rainfed conditions in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia. Soil Use and Management, 27(3), 404-414.

Araya, T., Cornelis, W. M., Nyssen, J., Govaerts, B., Getnet, F., Bauer, H., Deckers, J. (2012). Medium-term effects of conservation agriculture based cropping systems for sustainable soil and water management and crop productivity in the Ethiopian highlands. Conservation Agriculture in Dry Areas, 132(0), 53-62.

Ardö, J., and Olsson, L. (2004). Soil Carbon Sequestration in Traditional Farming in Sudanese Dry Lands. Environmental Management, 33(1,Supplement), S318-S329. doi: 10.1007/s00267-003-9141-2

Asai, H., Samson, B. K., Stephan, H. M., Songyikhangsuthor, K., Homma, K., Kiyono, Y., Horie, T. (2009). Biochar amendment techniques for upland rice production in Northern Laos. Field Crops Research, 111(1-2), 81-84. doi: 10.1016/j.fcr.2008.10.008

Asase, A., and Tetteh, D. A. (2010). The role of complex agroforestry systems in the conservation of forest tree diversity and structure in southeastern Ghana. Agroforestry Systems, 79(3), 355-368. doi: 10.1007/s10457-010-9311-1

Assis, C. P., Jucksch, I., Mendonca, E. S., Neves, J. C. L., Silva, L. H. M., and Wendling, B. (2012). Distribution and Quality of the Organic Matter in Light and Heavy Fractions of a Red Latosol under Different Uses and Management Practices. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 43(5), 835-846. doi: 10.1080/00103624.2012.648469

Asuming-Brempong, S., Gantner, S., Adiku, S. G. K., Archer, G., Edusei, V., and Tiedje, J. M. (2008). Changes in the biodiversity of microbial populations in tropical soils under different fallow treatments. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 40(11), 2811-2818. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2008.08.010

Aulakh, M. S., Kabba, B. S., Baddesha, H. S., Bahl, G. S., and Gill, M. P. S. (2003). Crop yields and phosphorus fertiliser transformations after 25 years of applications to a subtropical soil under groundnut-based cropping systems. Field Crops Research, 83(3), 283-296.

Aulakh, M. S., Khera, T. S., Doran, J. W., and Bronson, K. F. (2001). Managing crop residue with green manure, urea, and tillage in a rice-wheat rotation. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 65(3), 820-827.

Aulakh, M. S., Khera, T. S., Doran, J. W., and Bronson, K. F. (2001). Denitrification, N2O and CO2 fluxes in rice-wheat cropping system as affected by crop residues, fertiliser N and legume green manure. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 34(6), 375-389. doi: 10.1007/s003740100420

Aumtong, S., Magid, J., Bruun, S., and de Neergaard, A. (2009). Relating soil carbon fractions to land use in sloping uplands in northern Thailand. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 131(3–4), 229-239.

Ayuk, E. T., Duguma, B., Franzel, S., Kengue, J., Mollet, M., Tiki-Manga, T., and Zekeng, P. (1999). Uses, management, and economic potential of Dacryodes edulis (Burseraceae) in the humid lowlands of Cameroon. Economic Botany, 53(3), 292-301.

Ayuk, E. T., Duguma, B., Franzel, S., Kengue, J., Mollet, M., Tiki-Manga, T., and Zenkeng, P. (1999). Uses, management and economic potential of Irvingia gabonensis in the humid lowlands of Cameroon. Forest Ecology and Management, 113(1), 1-9.

Azucena Canto-Aguilar, M., and Parra-Tabla, V. (2000). Importance of conserving alternative pollinators: assessing the pollination efficiency of the squash bee, Peponapis limitaris in Cucurbita moschata (Cucurbitaceae). Journal of Insect Conservation, 4(3), 203-210.

Babujia, L. C., Hungria, M., Franchini, J. C., and Brookes, P. C. (2010). Microbial biomass and activity at various soil depths in a Brazilian oxisol after two decades of no-tillage and conventional tillage. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 42(12), 2174-2181. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.08.013

Badano, E. I., and Vergara, C. H. (2011). Potential negative effects of exotic honey bees on the diversity of native pollinators and yield of highland coffee plantations. Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 13(4), 365-372.

Bado, B. V., Lompo, F., Sedogo, M. P., and Cescas, M. P. (2010). Establishment of the Critical Limit of Soil-Available Phosphorous for Maize Production in Low Acidic Ultisols of West Africa. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 41(5-8), 968-976.

Balasubramanian, D., Arunachalam, K., Arunachalam, A., and Das, A. K. (2013). Water hyacinth Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms. engineered soil nutrient availability in a low-land rain-fed rice farming system of north-east India. Ecological Engineering, 58, 3-12. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.06.001

Balota, E. L., Colozzi Filho, A., Andrade, D. S., and Dick, R. P. (2004). Long-term tillage and crop rotation effects on microbial biomass and C and N mineralisation in a Brazilian Oxisol. Soil and Tillage Research, 77(2), 137-145.

Balota, E. L., and Dias Chaves, J. C. (2010). Enzymatic activity and mineralisation of carbon and nitrogen in soil cultivated with coffee and green manures. Revista Brasileira De Ciencia Do Solo, 34(5), 1573-1583. doi: 10.1590/s0100-06832010000500010

Balota, E. L., Kanashiro, M., Colozzi, A., Andrade, D. S., and Dick, R. P. (2004). Soil enzyme activities under long-term tillage and crop rotation systems in subtropical agro-ecosystems. Brazilian Journal of Microbiology, 35(4), 300-306. doi: 10.1590/s1517-83822004000300006

Balota, E. L., Machineski, O., and Truber, P. V. (2010). Soil carbon and nitrogen mineralisation caused by pig slurry application under different soil tillage systems. Pesquisa Agropecuaria Brasileira, 45(5), 515-521. doi: 10.1590/s0100-204x2010000500011

Balota, E. L., and Martins Auler, P. A. (2011). Soil microbial biomass under different management and tillage systems of permanent intercropped cover species in an orange orchard. Revista Brasileira De Ciencia Do Solo, 35(6), 1873-1883.

Balota, E. L., and Martins Auler, P. A. (2011). Soil carbon and nitrogen mineralisation under different tillage systems and permanent groundcover cultivation between orange trees. Revista Brasileira De Fruticultura, 33(2), 637-648.

Banger, K., Kukal, S., Toor, G., Sudhir, K., and Hanumanthraju, T. (2009). Impact of long-term additions of chemical fertilisers and farm yard manure on carbon and nitrogen sequestration under rice-cowpea cropping system in semi-arid tropics. Plant and soil, 318(1-2), 27-35.

Bardhan, S., Jose, S., Biswas, S., Kabir, K., and Rogers, W. (2012). Homegarden agroforestry systems: an intermediary for biodiversity conservation in Bangladesh. Agroforestry Systems, 85(1), 29-34. doi: 10.1007/s10457-012-9515-7

Barreto, P. A. B., Gama-Rodrigues, E. F., Gama-Rodrigues, A. C., Fontes, A. G., Polidoro, J. C., Moco, M. K. S., Baligar, V. C. (2011). Distribution of oxidizable organic C fractions in soils under cacao agroforestry systems in Southern Bahia, Brazil. Agroforestry Systems, 81(3), 213-220. doi: 10.1007/s10457-010-9300-4

Barthes, B., Azontonde, A., Blanchart, E., Girardin, C., Villenave, C., Lesaint, S., Feller, C. (2004). Effect of a legume cover crop (Mucuna pruriens var. utilis) on soil carbon in an Ultisol under maize cultivation in southern Benin. Soil Use and Management, 20(Supplement), 231-239.

Barton, A. P., Fullen, M. A., Mitchell, D. J., Hocking, T. J., Liu, L., Wu Bo, Z., Xia, Z. Y. (2004). Effects of soil conservation measures on erosion rates and crop productivity on subtropical Ultisols in Yunnan Province, China. Soil Interactions: Biology, Erosion and Organic Matter, 104(2), 343-357.

Barua, S. K., and Haque, S. M. S. (2013). Soil characteristics and carbon sequestration potentials of vegetation in degraded hills of Chittagonong, Bangladesh. Land Degradation and Development, 24(1), 63-71. doi: 10.1002/ldr.1107

Batista Matos, M. C., Sousa-Souto, L., Almeida, R. S., and Teodoro, A. V. (2013). Contrasting Patterns of Species Richness and Composition of Solitary Wasps and Bees (Insecta: Hymenoptera) According to Land-use. Biotropica, 45(1), 73-79. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2012.00886.x

Baudron, F., Tittonell, P., Corbeels, M., Letourmy, P., and Giller, K. E. (2012). Comparative performance of conservation agriculture and current smallholder farming practices in semi-arid Zimbabwe. Conservation Agriculture in Dry Areas, 132(0), 117-128.

Bawa, K. S., Joseph, G., and Setty, S. (2007). Poverty, biodiversity and institutions in forest-agriculture ecotones in the Western Ghats and Eastern Himalaya ranges of India. Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment, 121(3), 287-295. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2006.12.023

Bayala, J., Kindt, R., Belem, M., and Kalinganire, A. (2011). Factors affecting the dynamics of tree diversity in agroforestry parklands of cereal and cotton farming systems in Burkina Faso. New Forests, 41(3), 281-296. doi: 10.1007/s11056-010-9222-z

Bayer, C., Costa, F. d. S., Pedroso, G. M., Zschornack, T., Camargo, E. S., Lima, M. A. d., Macedo, V. R. M. (2014). Yield-scaled greenhouse gas emissions from flood irrigated rice under long-term conventional tillage and no-till systems in a Humid Subtropical climate. Field Crops Research, 162, 60-69.

Bayer, C., Dieckow, J., Amado, T. J. C., Eltz, F. L. F., and Vieira, F. C. B. (2009). Cover crop effects increasing carbon storage in a subtropical no-till sandy Acrisol. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 40(9-10), 1499-1511. doi: 10.1080/00103620902820365

Bayer, C., Gomes, J., Vieira, F. C. B., Zanatta, J. A., de Cássia Piccolo, M., and Dieckow, J. (2012). Methane emission from soil under long-term no-till cropping systems. Soil and Tillage Research, 124, 1-7.

Bayer, C., Martin-Neto, L., Mielniczuk, J., Pavinato, A., and Dieckow, J. (2006). Carbon sequestration in two Brazilian Cerrado soils under no-till. Soil and Tillage Research, 86(2), 237-245. doi: 10.1016/j.still.2005.02.023

Bayer, C., Mielniczuk, J., Amado, T. J. C., Martin-Neto, L., and Fernandes, S. V. (2000). Organic matter storage in a sandy clay loam Acrisol affected by tillage and cropping systems in southern Brazil. Soil and Tillage Research, 54(1-2), 101-109. doi: 10.1016/s0167-1987(00)00090-8

Bayer, C., Mielniczuk, J., Giasson, E., Martin-Neto, L., and Pavinato, A. (2006). Tillage effects on particulate and mineral-associated organic matter in two tropical Brazilian soils. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 37(3-4), 389-401. doi: 10.1080/00103620500446928

Becker, M., Asch, F., Maskey, S. L., Pande, K. R., Shah, S. C., and Shrestha, S. (2007). Effects of transition season management on soil N dynamics and system N balances in rice–wheat rotations of Nepal. Field Crops Research, 103(2), 98-108.

Beedy, T. L., Snapp, S. S., Akinnifesi, F. K., and Sileshi, G. W. (2010). Impact of Gliricidia sepium intercropping on soil organic matter fractions in a maize-based cropping system. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 138 (3/4), 139-146.

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Bhadauria, T., Kumar, P., Kumar, R., Maikhuri, R. K., Rao, K. S., and Saxena, K. G. (2012). Earthworm populations in a traditional village landscape in Central Himalaya, India. Applied Soil Ecology, 53, 83-93. doi: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2011.11.011

Bhadauria, T., and Ramakrishnan, P. S. (1989). Earthworm population-dynamics and contribution to nutrient cycling during cropping and fallow phases of shifting agriculture (Jhum) in Northeast India. Journal of Applied Ecology, 26(2), 505-520. doi: 10.2307/2404077

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Bhattacharyya, P., Roy, K. S., Neogi, S., Chakravorti, S. P., Behera, K. S., Das, K. M., Rao, K. S. (2012). Effect of long-term application of organic amendment on C storage in relation to global warming potential and biological activities in tropical flooded soil planted to rice. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, 94(2-3), 273-285. doi: 10.1007/s10705-012-9540-y

Bhattacharyya, R., Chandra, S., Singh, R. D., Kundu, S., Srivastva, A. K., and Gupta, H. S. (2007). Long-term farmyard manure application effects on properties of a silty clay loam soil under irrigated wheat-soybean rotation. Soil and Tillage Research, 94(2), 386-396. doi: 10.1016/j.still.2006.08.014

Bhattacharyya, R., Prakash, V., Kundu, S., Srivastva, A. K., and Gupta, H. S. (2009). Soil aggregation and organic matter in a sandy clay loam soil of the Indian Himalayas under different tillage and crop regimes. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 132(1–2), 126-134.

Bhattacharyya, R., Prakash, V., Kundu, S., Srivastva, A. K., Gupta, H. S., and Mitra, S. (2010). Long term effects of fertilisation on carbon and nitrogen sequestration and aggregate associated carbon and nitrogen in the Indian sub-Himalayas. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, 86(1), 1-16. doi: 10.1007/s10705-009-9270-y

Bhattacharyya, R., Tuti, M. D., Bisht, J. K., Bhatt, J. C., and Gupta, H. S. (2012). Conservation Tillage and Fertilisation Impact on Soil Aggregation and Carbon Pools in the Indian Himalayas Under an Irrigated Rice-Wheat Rotation. Soil Science, 177(3), 218-228. doi: 10.1097/SS.0b013e3182408f1e

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Biswas, A., Alamgir, M., Haque, S. M. S., and Osman, K. T. (2012). Study on soils under shifting cultivation and other land use categories in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. Journal of forestry research ecosystem management, 23(2), 261-265.

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poverty in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon: Interrelationships and policy prescriptions. Ecological Economics, 64(2), 356-373. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.03.001

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Boye, A., and Albrecht, A. (2006). Soil erodibility control and soil carbon losses under short-term tree fallows in western Kenya. Available online: http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers09-00/010034970.pdf Accessed 28 June 2015. Manuscript.

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Branca, G., Hissa, H., Benez, M. C., Medeiros, K., Lipper, L., Tinlot, M., Bernoux, M. (2013). Capturing synergies between rural development and agricultural mitigation in Brazil. Land Use Policy, 30(1), 507-518. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.04.021

Brar, B. S., Singh, K., Dheri, G. S., and Balwinder, K. (2013). Carbon sequestration and soil carbon pools in a rice-wheat cropping system: Effect of long-term use of inorganic fertilisers and organic manure. Soil and Tillage Research, 128, 30-36. doi: 10.1016/j.still.2012.10.001

Brevault, T., Bikay, S., Maldes, J. M., and Naudin, K. (2007). Impact of a no-till with mulch soil management strategy on soil macrofauna communities in a cotton cropping system. Soil and Tillage Research, 97(2), 140-149. doi: 10.1016/j.still.2007.09.006

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