Agroforestry seeks to balance protection of forest resources, the exploitation of the ecosystem services that trees can contribute to agriculture and the role of agroforestry in diversifying the range of agricultural products and markets.

This volume reviews the latest research on the role and implementation of main types of agroforestry, understanding and assessing the ecosystem services that agroforestry can deliver and techniques for optimising agroforestry practice. The book's main focus is on temperate agroforestry, but also reviews particular issues facing agroforestry in the tropics.

The collection will be a standard reference for forestry and agricultural scientists in universities, government and other research centres in agroforestry

Contributions by: Richard Schultz, Thomas Isenhart, William Beck, Tyler Groh, Morgan Davis, Gary Wyatt, Amanda Sames, Diomy S. Zamora, Penka Tsonkova, Christian Böhm, Rico Hübner, Julia Ehritt, Samuel C. Allen, Kent G. Apostol, Shibu Jose, Gerardo Moreno, Victor Rolo, Kenneth Mudge, Paul Burgess, Anil Graves, Silvestre García de Jalón, João Palma, Christian Dupraz, Meine van Noordwijk, Lydie Dufour, Roger R. B. Leakey, Mary Ng'endo, Shonil A. Bhagwat, Stephen H. Anderson, R. P. Udawatta, J. W. 'Jerry' Van Sambeek, Michael A. Gold, Pierre-Éric Lauri, Karim Barkaoui, Mohammed Ater, Adolfo Rosati, John Lynam, Damase Khasa, Alain Atangana, Rolando Cerda, Luis Orozco-Aguilar, Norvin Sepúlveda, Jenny Ordoñez, Geovana Carreño-Rocabado, Freddy Amores, Willan Caicedo, Samuel Oblitas, Eduardo Somarriba