Arabica coffee and cedar tree: integrating biotic and abiotic drivers
Agroforestry systems are important forms of sustainable farming, providing several ecosystem services. However, characterization and management of factors such as thermal and light heterogeneity, as well as interactions between trees and coffee plants, are determinants for achieving the desired sust...
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| author | Luanna Fernandes Pereira Sylvana Naomi Matsumoto Ueliton Soares de Oliveira Anselmo Eloy Silveira Viana Ednilson Carvalho Teixeira |
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| description | Agroforestry systems are important forms of sustainable farming, providing several ecosystem services. However, characterization and management of factors such as thermal and light heterogeneity, as well as interactions between trees and coffee plants, are determinants for achieving the desired sustainability. This study aimed to verify whether different distances between Coffea arabica L. and Australian red cedar can change soil and microclimate characteristics and how they alter morphological and physiological attributes of coffee plants over the rainy season and a prolonged drought period (veranico) in Summer. The trial was carried out in the municipality of Barra do Choça, in an area with Australian red cedar trees (Toona ciliata M. Roem), distributed in two hedges, spaced 19.8 × 3 m apart, in a northeastsouthwest direction, and coffee plants var. Catucaí Vermelho (3.3 × 0.5 m). Treatments were defined by the distance between the coffee plants and the first row of the Australian red cedar hedge (3.3 m, T1; 6.6 m, T2; 9.9 m, T3; 13.2 m, T4; 16.4 m, T5). Morphology and physiology of coffee plants, soil temperature, incident light on coffee plants, and the allelopathic potential of Australian red cedar leaf extracts were assessed in the wet and dry season of the 2016–2017 Summer. Temperatures fluctuated less in experimental units close to the hedge. The reduced growth of coffee plants close to the hedges was related to self-shading associated with light restriction by the trees. The experiment showed the allelopathic potential of Australian red cedar leaves. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8e313ac1bb264000b976da8b5264cb852022-12-22T04:37:55ZengAssociação Brasileira de Engenharia Sanitária e AmbientalRevista Brasileira de Ciências Ambientais1808-45242176-94782021-06-0156232733710.5327/Z21769478763336Arabica coffee and cedar tree: integrating biotic and abiotic driversLuanna Fernandes Pereira0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3197-1091Sylvana Naomi Matsumoto1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7182-6745Ueliton Soares de Oliveira2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3891-3871Anselmo Eloy Silveira Viana3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0501-1481Ednilson Carvalho Teixeira4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4071-7818Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV) - BrazilUniversidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB) - BrazilUniversidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV) - BrazilUniversidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB) - BrazilUniversidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB) - BrazilAgroforestry systems are important forms of sustainable farming, providing several ecosystem services. However, characterization and management of factors such as thermal and light heterogeneity, as well as interactions between trees and coffee plants, are determinants for achieving the desired sustainability. This study aimed to verify whether different distances between Coffea arabica L. and Australian red cedar can change soil and microclimate characteristics and how they alter morphological and physiological attributes of coffee plants over the rainy season and a prolonged drought period (veranico) in Summer. The trial was carried out in the municipality of Barra do Choça, in an area with Australian red cedar trees (Toona ciliata M. Roem), distributed in two hedges, spaced 19.8 × 3 m apart, in a northeastsouthwest direction, and coffee plants var. Catucaí Vermelho (3.3 × 0.5 m). Treatments were defined by the distance between the coffee plants and the first row of the Australian red cedar hedge (3.3 m, T1; 6.6 m, T2; 9.9 m, T3; 13.2 m, T4; 16.4 m, T5). Morphology and physiology of coffee plants, soil temperature, incident light on coffee plants, and the allelopathic potential of Australian red cedar leaf extracts were assessed in the wet and dry season of the 2016–2017 Summer. Temperatures fluctuated less in experimental units close to the hedge. The reduced growth of coffee plants close to the hedges was related to self-shading associated with light restriction by the trees. The experiment showed the allelopathic potential of Australian red cedar leaves.https://www.rbciamb.com.br/Publicacoes_RBCIAMB/article/view/763agroforestry system; coffea arabica; toona ciliatta m. roem; allelopathy; shading. |
| spellingShingle | Luanna Fernandes Pereira Sylvana Naomi Matsumoto Ueliton Soares de Oliveira Anselmo Eloy Silveira Viana Ednilson Carvalho Teixeira Arabica coffee and cedar tree: integrating biotic and abiotic drivers Revista Brasileira de Ciências Ambientais agroforestry system; coffea arabica; toona ciliatta m. roem; allelopathy; shading. |
| title | Arabica coffee and cedar tree: integrating biotic and abiotic drivers |
| title_full | Arabica coffee and cedar tree: integrating biotic and abiotic drivers |
| title_fullStr | Arabica coffee and cedar tree: integrating biotic and abiotic drivers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Arabica coffee and cedar tree: integrating biotic and abiotic drivers |
| title_short | Arabica coffee and cedar tree: integrating biotic and abiotic drivers |
| title_sort | arabica coffee and cedar tree integrating biotic and abiotic drivers |
| topic | agroforestry system; coffea arabica; toona ciliatta m. roem; allelopathy; shading. |
| url | https://www.rbciamb.com.br/Publicacoes_RBCIAMB/article/view/763 |
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