Claim · model-written summary
Soil organic carbon ranged from 1.91% to 3.89% across cocoa agroforestry plots.
- Taxon
- Theobroma cacao L.
Theobroma cacaot0 - Outcome
- SOCe4
- Value
- 1.91% to 3.89%e4
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Verbatim
t0“cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.)”
e4“with SOC ranging from 1.91% to 3.89%, SOM from 3.30% to 6.71%, and total N from 1.65% to 3.35%”
Title
Marlen A. Grandez-Alberca; Alexander Cotrina-Sanchez; Teodoro B. Silva-Melendez; et al. Agroforestry Systems 2026. doi:10.1007/s10457-026-01479-7
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Observation Shannon index H′ = 2.24 was measured in cocoa agroforestry tree communities.
- Observation Canopy cover exceeded 60% in cocoa agroforestry plots.
- Observation Calycophyllum spruceanum had an importance value index of 16.79% in cocoa agroforestry plots.
- Observation Laurus nobilis had an importance value index of 15.64% in cocoa agroforestry plots.
- Association Soil organic carbon, soil organic matter and total nitrogen were strongly correlated (r > 0.95) in cocoa agroforestry soils.
- Observation Soil organic matter ranged from 3.30% to 6.71% across cocoa agroforestry plots.
- Observation Total nitrogen ranged from 1.65% to 3.35% across cocoa agroforestry plots.
- Association Pest incidence was weakly or not significantly correlated with soil parameters (r ≤ 0.32) in cocoa agroforestry plots.
- Observation Pest incidence in cocoa agroforestry plots was generally at moderate levels.
- Observation The cocoa agroforestry systems had an average annual net benefit of USD 2,616.91 per hectare per year.
- Observation The cocoa agroforestry systems had a benefit–cost ratio of 2.30.