Defining competition vectors in a temperate alley cropping system in the midwestern USA: 3. Competition for nitrogen and litter decomposition dynamics

By S. Jose, A. Gillespie, J. Seifert, D. Mengel, P. E. Pope. Agroforestry Systems, 2000

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The long-term effects of a gliricidia-maize intercropping system in Southern Malawi, on gliricidia and maize yields, and soil properties (2006, background): “Several authors have expressed their fear that competition between trees and crops in a hedgerow cropping system for resources, e.g. for light, water and mineral elements, will reduce the yields of the associated crops (Ruhigwa et al., 1992; José et al., 2000a,b; Miller and Pallardy, 2001).”
Resource competition across the crop-tree interface in a maize-silver maple temperate alley cropping stand in Missouri (2001, background): “A similar apparently minor role for nutrient competition for temperate alley cropping practices was reported by Jose et al. (2000b) .”
Spatial variation of soil enzyme activities and microbial functional diversity in temperate alley cropping systems (2005, background): “Litter from such trees is usually lower in N than that from the intercrops (Jose et al. 2000; Saggar et al. 2001).”