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multistrata agroforestry systems

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-004231

An agroforestry system whose components (crops, trees, shrubs, livestock, wildlife, etc.) occupy distinct layers of the vertical structure of the community. An example is the production of coffee intercropped with bananas occupying the lowest strata, shaded by medium-sized fruit trees in the middle vertical strata, with an overstory of tall timber trees in the upper canopy strata.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-004231
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFarms, Agricultural Production Systems
ReferencesNAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary
See alsoagroforestry; multiple cropping; plant strata
TranslationsSpanish: sistemas agroforestales multiestrato
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-004231",
  "term": "multistrata agroforestry systems",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "An agroforestry system whose components (crops, trees, shrubs, livestock, wildlife, etc.) occupy distinct layers of the vertical structure of the community. An example is the production of coffee intercropped with bananas occupying the lowest strata, shaded by medium-sized fruit trees in the middle vertical strata, with an overstory of tall timber trees in the upper canopy strata.",
  "subject": "Farms, Agricultural Production Systems",
  "see_also": [
    "agroforestry",
    "multiple cropping",
    "plant strata"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "sistemas agroforestales multiestrato"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/multistrata-agroforestry-systems/"
}

Record 4,231 of 6,908 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.