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Systematic designs for field experimentation with multipurpose trees

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Systematic field layouts are especially useful with MPT species for examining plant responses e.g. to density stress, and where a wide range of treatment levels are needed because of lack of previous data. Examples of a ‘fan’ and a ‘parallel-row’ layout are given (with suitable sets of dimensions) and the development of parallel-row designs for management trials and mixed cropping is illustrated.

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  1. International Council for Research in Agroforestry, P.O. Box 30677, Nairobi, Kenya

    Peter A. Huxley

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A revised version of ICRAF working Paper No. 12 which has been incorporated into ‘Research Methodology for the Exploration and Assessment of Multipurpose Trees’ (Ed. P.A. Huxley), 1984. ICRAF, Nairobi — Financial support for the latter publication was provided by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council by means of a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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Huxley, P.A. Systematic designs for field experimentation with multipurpose trees. Agroforest Syst 3, 197–207 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00122643

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