The features of the tropical forest are found in Sundanese village-gardens. They are rich in plant species, a layered structure of the vegetation, existing patchwork and succession of sylvigenetic phases (from pioneer to homeostatic phase). These traditional agroforests reflect the surrounding forest ecosystem, simplifying the features.
The architectural method of tropical forest analysis is applied to Sundanese agroforests, but here each plant is both a structural element of the ecosystem and a producing element of the agricultural landscape. Such structural analysis could represent one aspect of an integral analysis of complex agroforestry systems.
AN - 91-01624 BT - Agroforestry Systems C1 - Agroforest Syst C6 - 0167-4366; 1572-9680 DA - 06/1983 DB - link.springer.com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu DO - 10.1007/BF00596353 IS - 2 LA - English N1 - Online version is a shortened and revised version of Bompard J, Ducatillion C, Hecketsweiler P Michon G, (1980) A traditional agricultural system: Village-forest-gardens in West Java. University Sc. Montpellier, France. Rapp. DEA. 101 p. + annex. N2 -The features of the tropical forest are found in Sundanese village-gardens. They are rich in plant species, a layered structure of the vegetation, existing patchwork and succession of sylvigenetic phases (from pioneer to homeostatic phase). These traditional agroforests reflect the surrounding forest ecosystem, simplifying the features.
The architectural method of tropical forest analysis is applied to Sundanese agroforests, but here each plant is both a structural element of the ecosystem and a producing element of the agricultural landscape. Such structural analysis could represent one aspect of an integral analysis of complex agroforestry systems.
PY - 1983 SP - 117 EP - 129 ST - Tropical forest architectural analysis as applied to agroforests in the humid tropics T2 - Agroforestry Systems TI - Tropical forest architectural analysis as applied to agroforests in the humid tropics: The example of traditional village-agroforests in West Java UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00596353 VL - 1 ER -