Table of Contents

Preface.- 1. Basic Ecological Concepts in Agroecosystems.- 1. Agroecology: Researching the Ecological Basis for Sustainable Agriculture.- 2. Two Examples of Natural Enemy Augmentation: A Consequence of Crop Diversification.- 3. An Evaluation of Ants as Possible Candidates for Biological Control in Tropical Annual Agroecosystems.- 4. Cropping Systems, Insect Movement, and the Spread of Insect-Transmitted Diseases in Crops.- 5. Diversification of Agroecosystems for Insect Pest Regulation: Experiments with Collards.- 6. Reduction of Damping-Off Disease in Soils from Indigenous Mexican Agroecosystems.- 7. The Role of Allelopathy in Agroecosystems: Studies from Tropical Taiwan.- 8. Nutrient Mobility in a Shifting Cultivation System, Belize, Central America.- 9. Low-Input Ideotypes.- 10. An Ecological Approach to Reducing External Inputs Through the Use of Intercropping.- 11. Integrating Trees into Agriculture: The Home Garden Agroecosystem as an Example of Agroforestry in the Tropics.- 12. The Influence of Trees in Selected Agroecosystems in Mexico.- 13. Tree Improvement from the Ground Up: The Potential for a Select Microbial Inocula in Forestry.- 14. Variability, Stability, and Risk in Intercropping: Some Theoretical Explorations.- 2. Agroecosystem Design and Management.- 15. Reducing the Risk: Some Indications Regarding Pre-Hispanic Wetland Agricultural Intensification from Contemporary Use of a Wetland/Terra Firma Boundary Zone in Central Veracruz.- 16. Agricultural Systems of the Northeastern Hill Region of India.- 17. The Impact of Agrohydrological Management on Water, Nutrients, and Fertilizers in the Environment of the Netherlands.- 18. Technological Changes in Energy Use in U.S. Agricultural Production.- 19. Energy Flow in Agroecosystems of Northeast China.- 20. Threats to Sustainability in Intensified Agricultural Systems: Analysis and Implications for Management.- 21. Quantifying the Agroecological Component of Sustainable Agriculture: A Goal.

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