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Item Aboriginal tourism in Venezuela : walking lightly on the land(IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 1996) Walker, LaurenItem Above and below ground competition for solar radiation and soil moisture in a windbreak soybean system(University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, US, 1998) Nieto-Cabrera, C.The main role of windbreaks in agricultural systems is to improve the microclimate and enhance the growth and yield of the protected crops. However, some competitive windbreak-crop relationships have been recognized. Windbreak-soybean above- and below-ground competition was studied in 1996 and 1997 at Mead, Nebraska (41$\sp\circ$ 29$\sp\prime$ N, 96$\sp\circ$ 30$\sp\prime$ W, and 354 m altitude). The factors in the study were: windbreak orientation (east windbreak, west exposed (EW), south windbreak, north exposed (SW), and west windbreak, east exposed (WW)), root pruning (pruned (P) and not pruned (NP)), and distance from the windbreak (0.75H, 1.5H, 2.25H, and 3.0H in 1996, and 0.5H, 0.75H, 1.5W, and 3.0H in 1997). Windbreaks were two rows of green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica L.) combined with eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana L.) or Austrian pine (Pinus nigra Arnold), 12-15 m height (H), and approximately 60% density. The most critical period of windbreak-crop competition for soil moisture occurred during soybean reproductive and grain filling stages. Windbreak-crop competition for soil moisture existed at EW and WW up to 0.75H, but it was negligible at SW. The differences in soybean yield between NP and P plots at 0.75H, were 192-601 kg ha$\sp{-1}$ (12.2-21.7%) at EW, 892-874 kg ha$\sp{-1}$ (32.1-40.8%) at WW, and 137-173 kg ha$\sp{-1}$ (5.4-6.1%) at SW in 1996 and 1997 respectively. Soybean canopy temperature (CT) was higher and soybean leaf water potential $(\Psi)$ was more negative at EW and WW compared with CT and $\Psi$ at SW, at NP compared with CT and $\Psi$ at P plots, and at 0.75H, compared with CT and $\Psi$ at other distances. Competition for solar radiation existed at the three windbreak orientations up to 0.75H, but it was significantly greater at SW when measured up to 0.5H. Incident photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD) integrated over the crop season in 1997 was 45.6 and 85.2% at SW, 73.5 and 86.7% at EW and 62.3 and 82.7% at WW, at 0.5H and 0.75H, respectively, compared with PPFD at an exposed field. Shading effects reduced soybean yield by 2333 kg ha$\sp{-1}$ (68.6%) at SW 0.5H, and by 577 to 1712 kg ha$\sp{-1}$ (17 to 40%) at SW 0.75H, compared with yields at SW 3.0H. Fewer accumulated growing degree days (GDD) were observed at SW up to 0.75H. Correlation between GDD and soybean phenological development existed at SW, but not at EW and WW windbreaks. Soybean phenological development at EW and WW responded more to soil water availability than to GDD accumulation.Item Aceite para el desarrollo(CIID, Ottawa, ON, CA, 1991) Eberlee, J.Item Actes du colloque / Produits naturels d'origine végétale(Univeristé du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, QC, CA, 1989) Collin, G.C.; Garneau, F.X.Item Action 21 : le plan vert planétaire(CRDI, Ottawa, ON, CA, 1993) CRDIItem Action 21 : résumés(CRDI, Ottawa, ON, CA, 1993) CRDIItem Active listening for African farmers(IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 1994) Smith, ElizabethItem Adaptación y transferencia de tecnológia para mejorar la calidad sanitaria del queso fresco artesanal en Guatemala : primer informe(REDAR, Guatemala City, GT, 1996) Red de Desarrollo Agroindustrial Rural de GuatemalaItem Addition of hydrocarbon and dispersat corexit 9527 into marine enclosed experimental ecosystem(Third Institute of Oceanography?, Xiamen, CN, 1986) Third Institute of OceanographyItem Adjusting the flow : two comments on the Middle East water crisis(1993) Brooks, David B.Item Aeromagnetic anomalies and tectonic trends across the Benue Trough and the adjacent Precambrian to Cambrian rocks in Nigeria(1985) Ajakaiye, D.E.; Hall, D.H.; Millar, T.W.; Verheijen, P.J.T.; Awad, M.B.Item Aeromagnetic anomalies and tectonic trends in and around the Benue Trough, Nigeria(1986) Ajakaiye, D.E.; Hall, M.B.; Millar, T.W.; Verheijen, P.J.T.; Awad, M.B.Item Afecciones de las vías respiratorias(ENDA - Caribe, TRAMIL - Centroamérica, Managua, NI, 1996) ENDA - Caribe, Programa TRAMIL - CentroaméricaItem African discovery(Broadcasting for International Understanding, Ottawa, ON, CA, 1994) Broadcasting for International Understanding Corporation; CIDA; IDRC; Mowbray, D.; Medina, A.; Lumb, L.A profile of two eminent African Researchers; Dr. Thomas Odhiambo in Kenya and Dr. Lydia Makhubub in Swaziland whose research has been guided by the firm conviction that development in Africa can be led by science.Item Afrique subsaharienne et démocratie(CRDI, Ottawa, ON, CA, 1996) Lachance, AndréItem Agarbathi : a bamboo based industry in India(INBAR, New Delhi, IN, 1996) Hanumappa, H.G.Item Agenda 21 : abstracts, reviews and commentaries(IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 1993) Carroll-Foster, TheodoraItem Agenda 21 : green paths to the future(IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 1993) IDRCItem Agenda 21 goes electronic(IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 1996) Carter, DeborahItem Agriculteurs africains à l'écoute(CRDI, Ottawa, ON, CA, 1994) Smith, Elizabeth