Meta-analysis of maize yield response to woody and herbaceous legumes in sub-Saharan Africa

By G. Sileshi, F. Akinnifesi, Olu Ajayi, F. Place. Plant and Soil, 2008

216 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Soil Science

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In Agronomy and Crop Science

1. F. Akinnifesi
2. Olu Ajayi
3. G. Sileshi
4. Guillermo Marcillo
5. F. Sinclair
6. Johan Six
7. Roy R. Weil
8. Fernando E. Miguez

In Soil Science

1. F. Akinnifesi
2. Olu Ajayi
3. Guillermo Marcillo
4. G. Sileshi
5. Johan Six
6. Roy R. Weil
7. Fernando E. Miguez
8. B. Vanlauwe

Citations in the corpus

• The State of Soil Degradation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Baselines, Trajectories, and Solutions (2015, background): “There is also a wealth of information on the benefits of specific practices such as short legume rotations (improved fallows) [152–158], agroforestry systems [159–165], and no-till systems [166–170].”
• Does the combined application of organic and mineral nutrient sources influence maize productivity? A meta-analysis (2011, unknown): “…and behavioral sciences (Gurevitch and Hedges 1999) and has been used recently for ecological studies (de Graaff et al. 2006; Gurevitch et al. 2000; Knorr et al. 2005; van Groenigen et al. 2006) and agricultural experiments (Miguez and Bollero 2005; Sileshi et al. 2008; Tirol-Padre and Ladha 2006).”
• Agronomic use efficiency of N fertilizer in maize-based systems in sub-Saharan Africa within the context of integrated soil fertility management (2011, methodology): “To assure data independence, as is necessary in meta-analysis (Sileshi et al. 2008), similar data for the same experiment reported in different publications were not repeated and only one set of the data were used.”
• The management of tree genetic resources and the livelihoods of rural communities in the tropics: non-timber forest products, smallholder agroforestry practices and tree commodity crops (2014, background): “…planting of nitrogen-fixing ‘fertiliser trees’ in the south of the continent to substitute for (or enhance) mineral fertiliser application has resulted in increased staple crops yields, more stable crop production in drought years and improved crop rain-use efficiency (Sileshi et al., 2008, 2012).”
• Cereal yield response to conservation agriculture practices in drylands of West Africa: A quantitative synthesis (2012, background): “This is due to highly variable results of individual studies making it difficult to show pattern using narrative reviews and the use of faultymethodologywith the risks of both type I (false positive error occurswhen a statistical test rejects a true null hypothesis) and type II (false negative error”
• Corn yield response to winter cover crops: An updated meta-analysis (2017, background): “…have systematically compiled the literature around WCCs in relation to crop yields, yet only a few have included a statistical treat-ment or meta-analysis of the data sets derived from the literature review (Valkama et al. 2015; Sileshi et al. 2008; Tonitto et al. 2006; Miguez and Bollero 2005).”
• Evergreen Agriculture: a robust approach to sustainable food security in Africa (2010, background): “Smallholder farmers need4 The East African Community 1 Comité Inter-Etate pour la Lutte contre la Sécheresse au Sahel 2 Common Market for Eastern & Southern Africa 3 The Economic Community Of West African States science-based solutions to increase the efficiency of their crop production systems: sol”
• Accurate crop yield predictions from modelling tree-crop interactions in gliricidia-maize agroforestry (2017, background): “The model demonstrated this capacity, in two contrasting African sites, even though there were some uncertainties in data inputs (exact planting and harvesting dates, exact gliricidia pruning dates and amounts of residues, and uncertainties for some soil water characteristics, tree root length densi”
• Does plant diversity benefit agroecosystems? A synthetic review. (2011, background): “…these studies are most appropriate for our focus on insects, general reviews on intercropping have found positive effects of plant diversification on yield (e.g., Vandermeer 1989, Fukai and Trenbath 1993, Sileshi et al. 2008), especially when the yields of all crops are included in the analysis.”