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M. van Noordwijk

M. van Noordwijk

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Plant Science and Agronomy
Kenya
2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
81
Citations
25504
World Ranking
401
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Kenya Leader Award

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Agriculture
  • Ecology
  • Biodiversity

M. van Noordwijk focuses on Agroforestry, Agronomy, Agriculture, Soil science and Root system. His research integrates issues of Root distribution, Deforestation, Climate change, Cropping system and Pruning in his study of Agroforestry. His Agronomy research includes elements of Plant ecology, Nutrient, Leaching and Subsoil.

His Agriculture research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Land use and Crop. His study in the fields of Soil water and Root density under the domain of Soil science overlaps with other disciplines such as Distribution and Investigation methods. His biological study deals with issues like Sampling, which deal with fields such as Soil core.

His most cited work include:

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes: Are we asking the right questions? (536 citations)
  • Root methods: A handbook (282 citations)
  • Roots, plant production and nutrient use efficiency (253 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His scientific interests lie mostly in Agroforestry, Agronomy, Agriculture, Ecosystem services and Land use. His Agroforestry study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Biodiversity, Imperata, Deforestation, Tropics and Vegetation. His Agronomy research incorporates elements of Soil water, Soil fertility and Nutrient.

His study focuses on the intersection of Agriculture and fields such as Climate change with connections in the field of Greenhouse gas. His work deals with themes such as Social responsibility, Sustainability and Reforestation, which intersect with Ecosystem services. His studies deal with areas such as Ecosystem and Environmental resource management as well as Land use.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Agroforestry (39.52%)
  • Agronomy (28.23%)
  • Agriculture (14.52%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2013-2018)?

  • Agroforestry (39.52%)
  • Agriculture (14.52%)
  • Land use (12.10%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Agroforestry, Agriculture, Land use, Sustainability and Environmental planning. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Allanblackia, Biodiversity, Plant morphology, Climate change and Elettaria cardamomum. His work in the fields of Land use, land-use change and forestry overlaps with other areas such as Corporate governance.

The various areas that M. van Noordwijk examines in his Land use study include Indigenous, Water scarcity and Environmental resource management. His Sustainability research integrates issues from Domestication, Allanblackia stuhlmannii, Livelihood and Ecosystem services. M. van Noordwijk focuses mostly in the field of Environmental planning, narrowing it down to matters related to Sustainable forest management and, in some cases, Land tenure.

Between 2013 and 2018, his most popular works were:

  • Advances in knowledge of processes in soil–tree–crop interactions in parkland systems in the West African Sahel: A review (46 citations)
  • Reform or reversal: the impact of REDD+ readiness on forest governance in Indonesia (35 citations)
  • Root distribution of trees and crops: competition and/or complementarity. (24 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Agriculture
  • Ecology
  • Biodiversity

M. van Noordwijk mainly investigates Agroforestry, Land use, Legalization, Environmental resource management and Forest management. His research in Agroforestry intersects with topics in Plant morphology, Root distribution and Competition. His Land use research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Agriculture, Food security, Woodland and Sustainability.

Water scarcity, Stakeholder, Diversity, Trend analysis and Incentive are fields of study that intersect with his Legalization research. M. van Noordwijk combines subjects such as Flooding, Land tenure, Spatial planning, Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and Sustainable forest management with his study of Environmental resource management. His studies in Forest management integrate themes in fields like Economic growth and Archipelago.

Best Publications

  • Reducing uncertainty in the use of allometric biomass equations for predicting above-ground tree biomass in mixed secondary forests.

    Quirine M Ketterings;Richard Coe;Meine van Noordwijk;Yakub Ambagau

  • Agricultural soils as a sink to mitigate CO2 emissions

    K Paustian;O Andren;H.H Janzen;R Lal

  • Trees, forests and water : Cool insights for a hot world

    David Ellison;Cindy E. Morris;Cindy E. Morris;Bruno Locatelli;Douglas Sheil

  • Climate change: linking adaptation and mitigation through agroforestry

    Louis V. Verchot;Meine Van Noordwijk;Serigne Kandji;Thomas P. Tomich

  • Global Tree Cover and Biomass Carbon on Agricultural Land: The contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets

    Robert J. Zomer;Henry Neufeldt;Jianchu Xu;Antje Ahrends

  • Agroforestry solutions to address food security and climate change challenges in Africa

    Cheikh Mbow;Meine Van Noordwijk;Eike Luedeling;Henry Neufeldt

  • Global change and multi-species agroecosystems : Concepts and issues

    John Vandermeer;Meine van Noordwijk;Jo Anderson;Chin Ong

  • Yield gaps in oil palm: A quantitative review of contributing factors

    Lotte Suzanne Woittiez;Mark T. van Wijk;Maja Slingerland;Meine van Noordwijk;Meine van Noordwijk

  • Roots, plant production and nutrient use efficiency

    P. de Willigen;M. van Noordwijk

  • Root methods: A handbook

    A.L. Smit;A.G. Bengough;C. Engels;M. van Noordwijk

  • Soil carbon dynamics in the humid tropical forest zone

    Meine van Noordwijk;Carlos Cerri;Paul L. Woomer;Kusumo Nugroho

  • The central agroforestry hypothesis: the trees must acquire resources that the crop would not otherwise acquire

    M. G. R. Cannell;M. Van Noordwijk;C. K. Ong

  • Root distribution of trees and crops: competition and/or complementarity

    M. van Noordwijk;G. Lawson;A. Soumaré;J.J.R. Groot

  • Root distribution of trees and crops: competition and/or complementarity.

    M. van Noordwijk;G. Lawson;K. Hairiah;J. Wilson

  • The Imperata grasslands of tropical Asia: area, distribution, and typology

    D. P. Garrity;M. Soekardi;M. van Noordwijk;R. de la Cruz

  • WaNuLCAS, a model of water, nutrient and light capture in agroforestry systems

    M. Van Noordwijk;B. Lusiana

  • Auger Sampling, Ingrowth Cores and Pinboard Methods

    Maria do Rosário G. Oliveira;M. van Noordwijk;S. R. Gaze;G. Brouwer

  • Towards an integrated global framework to assess the impacts of land use and management change on soil carbon: current capability and future vision.

    Pete Smith;Christian A. Davies;Stephen Ogle;Giuliana Zanchi

  • Root architecture in relation to tree-soil-crop interactions and shoot pruning in agroforestry

    M. Van Noordwijk;P. Purnomosidhi

  • Litter layer residence time in forest and coffee agroforestry systems in Sumberjaya, West Lampung

    Kurniatun Hairiah;Hermi Sulistyani;Didik Suprayogo;Widianto

  • Testing the safety-net role of hedgerow tree roots by 15N placement at different soil depths

    E. C. Rowe;K. Hairiah;K. E. Giller;M. Van Noordwijk

  • Social-ecological and regional adaptation of agrobiodiversity management across a global set of research regions

    L.E. Jackson;M.M. Pulleman;L. Brussaard;K.S. Bawa

  • Environmental benefits and sustainable land-use options in the Jambi transect, Sumatra

    D. Murdiyarso;M. Van Noordwijk;U. R. Wasrin;Thomas P. Tomich

  • Root-soil contact of maize, as measured by a thin-section technique. 3. Effects on shoot growth, nitrate and water uptake efficiency.

    B. W. Veen;M. van Noordwijk;P. de Willigen;F. R. Boone

  • Alternatives to slash-and-burn in Indonesia: summary report and synthesis of phase II

    T.P. Tomich;M. Van Noordwijk;s. Budidarsono;A. Gillison

  • Root-soil contact of maize, as measured by a thin-section technique

    M. Van Noordwijk;M. J. Kooistra;F. R. Boone;B. W. Veen

  • Root-soil contact of maize, as measured by a thin-section technique. 2. Effects of soil compaction.

    M. J. Kooistra;D. Schoonderbeek;F. R. Boone;B. W. Veen

  • Advances in knowledge of processes in soil–tree–crop interactions in parkland systems in the West African Sahel: A review

    J. Bayala;J. Sanou;Z. Teklehaimanot;S.J. Ouedraogo

  • Does Community-Based Forest Management in Indonesia Devolve Social Justice or Social Costs?

    S. De Royer;M. Van Noordwijk;J.M. Roshetko

  • How trees and people can co-adapt to climate change: reducing vulnerability in multifunctional landscapes.

    M. van Noordwijk;M. H. Hoang;H. Neufeldt;I. Öborn

  • Old tree root channels in acid soils in the humid tropics: Important for crop root penetration, water infiltration and nitrogen management

    M. Van Noordwijk;Widianto;M. Heinen;Kurniatun Hairiah

Frequent Co-Authors

Georg Cadisch
Georg Cadisch University of Hohenheim
Daniel Murdiyarso
Daniel Murdiyarso IPB University
Jianchu Xu
Jianchu Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
John R. Healey
John R. Healey Bangor University
A. G. Bengough
A. G. Bengough University of Dundee
Louis V. Verchot
Louis V. Verchot Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical
Fergus L. Sinclair
Fergus L. Sinclair Bangor University
Eric F. Lambin
Eric F. Lambin Stanford University
John C. Moore
John C. Moore Beijing Normal University
Ingrid Öborn
Ingrid Öborn Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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