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Optimizar el funcionamentode un sistema agroforestal
Cultivos productivos en huertos
Christian DuprazUMR SYSTEM, Montpellier, Francia
20/03/2015
Segunda conferencia
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Efficiency of the tree-crop associaton
To mix or not to mix …
1.2 to 1.6
Land Equivalent Ratio
Poplars winter cereals
14 years
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Prunus avium
Juglans hybrid
A 1.4 LER means
that an 100 ha agroforestry farm produces as much as a 140 ha farm where treesand crops are segregated
Improved efficiency of natural production factors (light, water, nitrogen)
Tree and crop plasticity in agroforestry systems
Poplar-cereal experiment
• 1996 – 2009 (14 years)
• Cereals and rape from 1996 to 2007
• Harvesting and selling the trees in december 2009
2000 2007
AF
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Plasticité des couronnes dans un système à base de peuplier
Unexpected canopy plasticityStrectched canopies with esat-west tree lines
CW = 14 m
CW = 11 m
Experimental 13 years old poplar-wheat agroforest
CW =
Crown Width
Unexpected root plasticity
Documenting the fine root distribution
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Dupraz and Mulia, Plant and Soil, 2012
Agroforesterie
Témoinforestier
Agroforesterie
TémoinforestierForest control
AgroforestryAgroforestry
Years after plantation
Forest control
Agroforestry
Years after plantation
Root length (%)
Root phenology
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Germon et al, Plant & Soil, 2016
Unexpected phenology for walnut trees in agroforestry
Winter summer
Crop yield in Agroforestry
• With 50% of radiation, between50 and 100% of crop yield
• Light competition compensated by several processes
• Results obtained with numerical models
Treeplantation
Treeharvest
133 trees.ha-1
64 trees.ha-1
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Relative irradiation
Relative
yeield
8 scenarii x 3 climate replications
Complementarity in ressource capture
Complementarity for light capture
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Light balance (40 ans)
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Light captured in agroforestry:
Walnut : 0.73Wheat : 0.66
LER light = 1.39
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What is the shape of the cumulated shade of a tree over a year?
A banana A flying cup A banana on a wheel
Nord
Nord
No : only on June 21 for direct beam
YESNo : only on 21 June for bothdirect and diffuse beams
A banana A flying cup A banana on a wheel
AGROFORESTRY AT ALL LATITUDES?
UNEXPECTED RESULTS ABOUT BEST DESIGNS TO ALLOW MORE LIGHT TO THE CROPS AT VARIOUS LATITUDE
Dupraz Christian, Lecomte Isabelle, Molto Quentin, Blitz-Frayret Céline, Gosme Marie
INRA, UMR-System, Montpellier
Latitude 52 °N (University of Leeds)
Path of the Sun over the celestial sphere through the course of the day at 56°N latitude.
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Sun path at the summer solstice (dashed), equinox (solid) and winter solstice (dotted-dashed) for latitude 65° (left) and 25°(right) as seen from the center of the alley
Summer solstice
Equinox
Winter solstice
North-South tree line
East-West tree line
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Sun path during the summer solstice at 25° and 65° of latitude North
Poplar alley cropping system with tree lines spaced 16 m and tree height 20 m
North-South tree line
East-West tree line
From the center of the alley
South and close from the tree
The sky as the crop « sees » it
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Extraterrestrial irradiation throughout the year at different Northern latitudes
50 cm DBH trees, 84 trees/hectare
Relative irradiation of the crop in March, June, September and December
North-South better
Low impact of latitude
East-West better
Heterogeneity of relative crop irradiation
84 trees/ha (17m wide alleys)
East-West tree lines North-South tree lines
Month of June
Increase light
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Reduce light
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Increase tree
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Best
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Low latitudes
(<35° Tropics)
East-West
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North-South
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Temperate latitudes
(35°-50°)Equal
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(>50° Boreal/Austral)
North-South
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Looking for the best compromise for tree row orientation
Complementarity for light
• Impact of tree and crop phenology
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Complementarity for water
• Less important in irrigated systems
• Example : Wheat system water balance
– Rain : 750 mm
– Soil evaporation : 250 mm
– Crop transpiration : 300 mm
– Leaks (runoff + drainage) : 200 mm - > rivers, water tables
• Transpiration of mature walnut trees : 150 mm
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Water balance (40 years)
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Water capture:Walnut : 0.71Wheat : 0.84
LER water = 1.55
Inputs :RainWater table
OutputsWheat transpirationWalnut transpirationUnderstory forest transpirationSoil evaporationdrainageRunoff
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Entrées Sorties
Yield of crops in agroforestry
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What yield components are modified and when?
Increased light capture• Delayed senescence
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LAI walnutsPhénology walnutPhénology wheat
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Yield of crops in agroforestry
Complémentarité pour l’azote
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Nitrogen capture in an agroforestry system
Complémentarité pour l’azote• Safety net for nitrate leaks
– Capture of leached nitrate in depths and recycling by the trees
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AgricultureAgroforestry Forestry
N loss
Looking for facilitation
Mecanisms triggered by trees for facilitation
• Nutrients pump
• Hydraulic lift
• Microclimate change : reduction of soil evaporation, reduction of windspeed, reduction of crop temperature
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Optimizing AF system with simulation models
The Hi-sAFe model (2005-2017)
• 3D process-based
• Competition for light, water and nitrogen
• Day time step, decades run
• STICS crop model embedded and replicatedon each cell
• Toric symmetry allowing infinite stands
• 3D tree root systems
4m
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13m
Scène réelleScène virtuelle Scène virtuelle
First results of simulation runs
• Impact of climate change with IPCC predictions
Montpellier, Restinclières,
Longitude 3° 5' E, Latitude 43° 7' N, Elevation 62 m
Tree pruning, tree row orientation, tree density
Tree line orientationNorth-South / East-West
133 trees.ha-1 64 trees.ha-1
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Pruning height: 10 / 6 m
Tree density
Root plasticity of trees
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+ 33% explained by :
• total PAR intercepted : +12 %
• light use efficiency : +19 %
Above ground biomass
+23 %
Below ground biomass
+100 %
Total growth (Kg C)
Opportunistic tree roots as a
key success factor for tree
growth
Resilience to climate change
Assessing the adaptation to climate change of agroforestry systems by field experiments and numerical simulations.
Dupraz Christian, Reyes Francesco, Inurreta Daniel,
Dufour Lydie, Lecomte Isabelle,
Gosme Marie
INRA, SYSTEM,
University of Montpellier, France
• Climate change is a threat to many crops and forests in Europe.
• For crops : thermal and water stresses occur more and more frequently and are considered as a main limit to crop yield increase in Europe.
• For trees : Rain reduction and temperature increase may induced water stresses with impacts on growth and health
Brisson N et al. 2010. Why are wheat yields stagnating in Europe? A comprehensive data analysis for France. Field Crops Research 119: 201-212.
Yields of major crops in Europe stagnate since 15 years, and climate change is largely responsible for this
Agroforestry systems have the potential to modify the microclimate of crops grown in agroforestry alleys.
Effet protecteur contreles fortes températures en été
Farmer Henri Breton: « Some years we miss 10% because of tree competition, but other dry and hot years, trees microclimate increase yield by 0.5-1 tonne per hectare as compared to monocrops »
But what about crops ?
Likely impact of trees on crops
• Reduced incoming radiation (shade)– Reduced biomass
– Reduced yield
– Reduced crop temperature and delayed crop phenology
• Shade and sky mask result in a different climate– Reduced daily air temperature range
– Delayed soil warming in spring and cooling in automn
– Reduced soil evaporation and PET
– Reduced radiative frost and dew
• Impact on wind less easy to predict– Reduced average speed
– Possible venturi effect under the pruned trees
– Depends on tree line orientation and wind direction
Likeky impacts of crops on trees
Tillage, fertilisation, weeding, N-fixation by the crops, irrigation may benefit to the trees
But out of the forest, trees are strongly coupled to the atmosphere(transpiration is enhanced)
Subjected to strong mechanical constraints (wind)
Crops may induce contrasted microclimate conditions for treesAir humidity increased by crop transpiration (eg irrigated maize vs dry cereal stubbles)
Soil moisture reduced in the top soil inducing deep rooting
Dual approach :
Field Experiment Numerical modelShort term (5 years) Allow long term studies (100 years)
Imposed rain reductionand temperature increase
Following IPCC predictions
Restinclières farm Hi-sAFe model
IPCC Assessment Report 5scenario RCP85 adjusted to our experimental location
(Clipick sampling tool developped by Palma et al, Agforward project)
Surprise : No significant total annualrainfall change
As expected : 3° increase in maximumdaily temperatures
The LER of AF increases with climate change
Trees behave better in AF than in F with climate change
No significant change for the average RY of crops
Final LER :
PAST : 1.28
PRESENT : 1.32
FUTURE : 1.39
How can we explain crop relative yields in AF?
Small trees Large mature trees
Crop temperature in Monocropping (M) and Agroforestry (AF).
• We need to document the frequency of eventsaffecting crop yields in the past, present and future
Crop stage Stresses
Flower initiation Light reduction, water stress, high temperature
Grain filling Water stress, high temperature
Can we try?
No experiment so far in agroforestry systems, especially mechanized systems.
How to do it?
How to reduce rain?
How to increase temperature?
Rain reduction experiments on forests 2
Eucalypts (Brazil, Itatinga,)Reduction of 30% of the rainfall with permanent guttersSignificant impact on trees
We set up a mobile rain capture device in a mature walnut-wheat agroforestry system in South France. This is a unique experiment so far in Europe.
The system is entirely supported by the trees and is open before each rain that we want to capture. Area : 50 m x 26 m (two alleys)
Vielen Dank für Ihre Aufmerksamkeit
According to the model :
With Climate Change, AF is better
AF trees take advantage of CC, F trees did not
AF crops have more stable yields than monocrops
But we now need the field experiment !
A final word : new research needs
• New varieties adapted to shade
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Gracias por su atención