TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the landscape scale influences of tree cover on crop yield in an agroforestry parkland using satellite data and spatial statistics
AU - Karlson, Martin
AU - Bolin, David
AU - Bazié, Hugues Roméo
AU - Ouedraogo, Abraham Sotongo
AU - Soro, Boukary
AU - Sanou, Josias
AU - Bayala, Jules
AU - Ostwald, Madelene
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2023-09-07
Acknowledgements: We thank the Swedish Armed Forces and the Swedish National Space Agency for their help in providing the Pléiades satellite data. We would also like to express our gratitude to the farmers in Saponé for letting us use their fields in this research. Lastly, we would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for helping to substantially improve the manuscript.
PY - 2023/8/10
Y1 - 2023/8/10
N2 - Trees in agroforestry parklands influence crops both through competitive and facilitative mechanism, but the effects are challenging to disentangle due to the complexity of the system with high variability in tree cover structure and species diversity and crop combinations. Focusing on a landscape in central Burkina Faso dominated by Vitellaria paradoxa and Parkia biglobosa, this paper examines how tree cover influences crop yield at landscape scale using satellite data and spatial statistics. Our analysis is based on data from 2017 to 2018 with differences in rainfall to assess the stability in identified relationships. Our findings showed that tree canopy cover and tree density inside the fields tended to decrease crop yield because of competition, but also that these variables when considering the surrounding landscape exerted an opposite effect because of their buffering effects. The explanatory variables representing soil properties did have limited effects on crop yield in this study. These patterns were consistent during the two years of monitoring. Overall, our results suggest that farmers in this area might manage the tree cover in a way that optimizes sustainable yields as canopy cover and tree density in most parklands is below the limits identified here where competition outweight the facilitative effects.
AB - Trees in agroforestry parklands influence crops both through competitive and facilitative mechanism, but the effects are challenging to disentangle due to the complexity of the system with high variability in tree cover structure and species diversity and crop combinations. Focusing on a landscape in central Burkina Faso dominated by Vitellaria paradoxa and Parkia biglobosa, this paper examines how tree cover influences crop yield at landscape scale using satellite data and spatial statistics. Our analysis is based on data from 2017 to 2018 with differences in rainfall to assess the stability in identified relationships. Our findings showed that tree canopy cover and tree density inside the fields tended to decrease crop yield because of competition, but also that these variables when considering the surrounding landscape exerted an opposite effect because of their buffering effects. The explanatory variables representing soil properties did have limited effects on crop yield in this study. These patterns were consistent during the two years of monitoring. Overall, our results suggest that farmers in this area might manage the tree cover in a way that optimizes sustainable yields as canopy cover and tree density in most parklands is below the limits identified here where competition outweight the facilitative effects.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/678716
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140196323001222
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85167456214&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2023.105051
DO - 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2023.105051
M3 - Article
SN - 0140-1963
VL - 218
SP - 105051
JO - Journal of Arid Environments
JF - Journal of Arid Environments
ER -