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Get Adobe ReaderBelow are our publications on Piper aduncum in Papua New Guinea:

 

Hartemink, A.E. 2006  Invasion of Piper aduncum in the shifting cultivation systems of Papua New Guinea. ISRIC - World Soil Information, Wageningen. [with a Foreword by Prof David Pimentel]. xiv+234 pp. ISBN 90 810628 1 6. More info here       The book can be downloaded: (52 Mb)    Read the review by D. Simberloff in Biological Invasions (2007)  

 

 

Hartemink, A.E. 2006  Piper aduncum fallows in the lowlands of Papua New Guinea. In: Voices from the Forest - Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Sustainable Upland Farming. M. Cairns (Ed), The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp 186-190.

 

 

Siges, T., A.E. Hartemink, P. Hebinck & B.J. Allen 2005  The invasive shrub Piper aduncum and rural livelihoods in the Finschafen area of Papua New Guinea. Human Ecology 33(6): 875-893.

 

 

Hartemink, A.E. 2004  Nutrient stocks of short-term fallows on high base status soils in the humid tropics of Papua New Guinea. Agroforestry Systems 63: 33-43.

 

 

Hartemink, A.E. 2003  Integrated nutrient management research with sweet potato in Papua New Guinea. Outlook on Agriculture 32: 173-182.

 

 

Hartemink, A.E. 2003  Sweet potato yield and nutrient dynamics after short-term fallows in the humid lowlands of Papua New Guinea. Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Science 50: 297-319.

 

 

Hartemink, A.E. 2002  The invasion of Piper aduncum in Papua New Guinea: Friend or foe?  Flora Malesiana Bulletin 13: 66-68.

 

 

Hartemink, A.E. 2002  Nutrient stocks and nutrient cycling of fallows in the humid lowlands of Papua New Guinea. 17th World Congress of Soil Science, Vol. II: 691. IUSS, Bangkok. text      poster

 

 

Hartemink, A.E. 2001  Biomass and nutrient accumulation of Piper aduncum and Imperata cylindrica fallows in the humid lowlands of Papua New Guinea. Forest Ecology and Management 144: 19-32.

 

 

Hartemink, A.E. & J.N. O’Sullivan 2001  Leaf litter decomposition of Piper aduncum, Gliricidia sepium and Imperata cylindrica in the humid lowlands of Papua New Guinea. Plant and Soil 230: 115-124.

 

 

Hartemink, A.E., S. Poloma & J.N. O’Sullivan & 2001  Integrated nutrient management research with sweet potato at Hobu. In: Food Security in Papua New Guinea. R.M Bourke, M.G. Allen & J.G. Salisbury (Eds). ACIAR Proceedings no. 99, Canberra pp. 698-711.

 

 

Rogers, H.R. & A.E. Hartemink 2000  Soil seed banks and growth rates of an invasive species, Piper aduncum, in the lowlands of Papua New Guinea. Journal of Tropical Ecology 16: 243-251.

 

 

Hartemink, A.E., 1999  Piper aduncum fallows in the lowlands of Papua New Guinea. In: M. Cairns (Ed), Indigenous strategies for intensification of shifting cultivation in Southeast Asia. ICRAF, Bogor, pp. 193-196.