TY - BOOK AU - Vandermeer, John TI - The Ecology of Intercropping SN - 0521345928 AV - QH 45.2 .V36 1989 PY - 1989/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press N1 - Intercrops and ecology -- The measurement of intercrop performance -- The competitive production principle -- Facilitation -- Mechanisms of the competitive production principle -- The environments modified to produce facilitation -- Special problems in intercrops involving perennials -- Weeds and intercrops -- Variability and intercrops -- Planning intercrops - a phenomenological approach -- Planning intercrops - a mechanistic approach -- Critical research directions for the future ER -