capa EURAF EUROPEAN AGROFORESTRY FEDERATION nd 2 European Agroforestry Conference Integrating Science and Policy to Promote Agroforestry in Practice Book of Abstracts June 2014 Cottbus, Germany Editor-In-Chief: Organizing Committee: João HN Palma Dirk Freese Editors: Anja Chalmin Anja Chalmin Christian Dupraz Paul Burgess Rosa Mosquera-Losada Jo Smith Anastasia Panthera Mike Strachan Norbert Lammersdorf Jabier Ruiz Mirazo João HN Palma Adolfo Rosati Joana A Paulo Scientific Committee: Adolfo Rosati Anastasia Panthera Ansgar Quinkenstein Gerardo Moreno Jo Smith Joana A Paulo João HN Palma Rosa Mosquera-Losada Sami Kryeziu ISBN: 978-972-97874-4-7 cover design: Luís Fonseca (The 50 words more frequent in this document, sized proportional to their frequency) Contents Preface .............................................................................................................................................. v New insights into carbon, water and nutrient cycling in agroforestry ........................................ 2 Biophysical Interactions in the Alley Cropping System in Saskatchewan ................................................................... 3 Soil carbon sequestration in a Mediterranean agroforestry system............................................................................. 7 Pasture management under hardwood plantations: legume implantation vs. mineral fertilization ............................ 10 Carbon Sequestration in a Poplar Agroforestry System in India with Wheat and other Crops at Different Spacing and Row Directions ....................................................................................................................... 14 Policy proposals and impacts ...................................................................................................... 18 A methodological framework for quantification and valuation of ecosystem services of tree-based intercropping systems ................................................................................................................................................ 19 Towards a joint strategy for Iberian oak agroforestry systems: acknowledging the value of dehesas and montados ............................................................................................................................................................ 26 Agroforestry in the French Green and Blue Corridors policy: towards promotion of trees? ...................................... 28 Environmental benefits provided by agroforestry ...................................................................... 30 Variable-width Buffers to Reduce Sediment Pollution from Potato Production on Steep Slopes: Analysis of Black Brook Watershed using AgBufferBuilder ....................................................................................... 31 SCA0PEST, a pesticide-free agroforestry cropping system: ex-ante performance evaluation ................................. 35 Do agroforestry systems promote a thriving nightlife? Assessing bat activity with an easy to use standardized protocol ................................................................................................................................................. 39 The Spatial Distribution and Functioning of invertebrates in Organic Agroforestry Systems .................................... 42 Agroforestry for land reclamation ................................................................................................ 43 Modeling of agroforestry in Natura 2000 habitat site in Hungary............................................................................... 44 Small ruminants as a fire management tool in a Mediterranean mountain region .................................................... 48 Celtic Pig production in Chestnut extensive systems in Galicia ................................................................................ 52 Alley Cropping – A promising multifunctional form of land use for reclaimed lignite mining sites in Germany..................................................................................................................................................................... 55 Innovative solutions for sustainable agriculture with agroforestry .......................................... 58 Alley coppice: an innovative land use system - options of system design with experimental evidence .................... 59 Holistic agroforestry system in practice. Just an idea or is there a living model? ...................................................... 63 The Economics of Woodland Eggs in the UK ............................................................................................................ 67 Combining Hens for Egg Production and Trees for Wood Chips in an Agroforestry System .................................... 71 Variation of understory biomass in a valonia oak silvopastoral system according to distance from sheep and goat sheds ................................................................................................................................................ 74 Posters ............................................................................................................................................ 77 Results for net primary production from poplars and willows irrigated with biologically treated wastewater in short rotation coppices ........................................................................................................................ 78 i Agricultural, forest and rural policy sectors’ receptiveness to agroforestry intercropping systems in Quebec (Canada) ...................................................................................................................................................... 82 Could tree leaves serve as a mineral supplement for dairy cows and goats? .......................................................... 86 Energy wood production in alley cropping agroforestry systems .............................................................................. 89 The influence of policy sectors on agroforestry in Germany ..................................................................................... 93 Tree-based intercropping: A land-use for greenhouse gas mitigation in Canadian agricultural systems ................. 96 Behaviour of Degradable Tree Shelters in Forestry and Agro-Forestry Environments .......................................... 100 On-farm monitoring of agroforestry innovations ...................................................................................................... 103 Solid biofuel and biogas production from a grassland-willow alley cropping system.............................................. 106 Analysis of a silvopastoral system with animals of the autochthonous swine breed Porco Celta in Galicia (NW Spain) .................................................................................................................................................. 110 Indicators explaining the benefits of agroforestry systems ..................................................................................... 113 Cattle production in agroforestry systems. An analysis on the role of intensification and dependence of subsidies.................................................................................................................................................................. 116 Calibration of the parameters of the Yield-SAFE model in silvopastoral systems under Pinus radiata D. Don ..................................................................................................................................................................... 120 From research to the field… developing a third generation agroforestry ................................................................ 124 Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) - an invasive alien species or potentially species plantation of agroforestry in Pannonian ecoregion ...................................................................................................................... 127 Tree growth in a silvopastoral system established in acid soils with Pinus radiata D. Don .................................... 131 Co-Design of innovative periurban horticultural agroforestry systems: Case study of a pilot farm in the south of France ....................................................................................................................................................... 135 Silvopastoral management for quality wood production ......................................................................................... 139 Interactions among plant layers in shrub-encroached Iberian dehesas and consequences for their persistence .............................................................................................................................................................. 143 Juglans growth under ploughing and Vicia villosa sowing understory management .............................................. 147 Nutritive value of Quercus pyrenaica Willd browse species in NE of Portugal ....................................................... 150 Carbon balance estimation for Agroforestry land use alternatives in Portugal ....................................................... 153 The role of scattered trees and habitat diversity for biodiversity of Iberian dehesas .............................................. 157 Evolution of crop yields and qualities in a short rotation coppice alley