Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements and Congress information -- Session 1. Silvopastoral systems. Main types and designs -- Main invited Key note -- Traditional and improved silvopastoral systems and their importance in sustainability of livestock farms -- Invited Key notes -- Silvopastoral systems in North-West Europe -- Silvopastoral systems in the Neotropics -- European types of silvopastoral systems in the Mediterranean area: dehesa -- Mediterranean European silvopastoral systems -- Offered papers -- Agroforestry for improving farm smallholdings -- Improved fallows with forage trees for a slash and burn maize system in the Yucatán Peninsula -- The influence of climate and soil type on the "montado" production system -- Silvopastoralism with native tree species in Uruguay -- Classification principles and use of grazed forest stands in the Ukraine -- Traditional silvoarable systems and their evolution in Greece -- Biodiversity and sustainable development in the silvopastoral systems of the Cantabrian mountains -- Goat production system in mountain zones: the case of Peneda's mountain -- Silvopastoralism in Evritania, central Greece -- The effect of duck grazing on cocoa yields in São Tomé island -- Types of land use in the montado (dehesa) production system -- Contribution of silvopastoral systems to land upkeep: differences and determining factors in a French upland region -- From forest grazing to multipurpose shelterbelts in Hungary -- Session 2. Productivity, quality and management of silvopastoral systems -- Main invited Key note -- Silvopasture in south-eastern United States: more than just a new name for an old practice -- Invited Key notes -- Nutritive value of trees and shrubs for ruminants -- Quality of vegetation in silvopastoral systems -- The herbaceous component intemperate silvopastoral systems -- Offered papers.

The effect of pruning intensity on acorn production in a holm-oak "dehesa" -- The effect of tree density on pasture yield -- An alternative to improve goat production in the mountain areas of north-west Tunisia -- Seasonal fodder biomass production of palo dulce and tepozan -- Pruning influence on acorn yield in cork-oak open woodland -- Effects of grazing on fuel biomass in mountain pastures of the south-eastern Pyrenees -- Seed production and influence of heat on the germination of Genista scorpius (L.) DC -- Lithium chloride and ipecacuanha syrup to induce sheep aversion to the intake of coffee plants -- Dispersed trees in pasturelands of cattle farms in a dry ecosystem of Costa Rica -- Micropropagation of three clones of Morus alba L. selected for fodder use -- Estimating diet selection of goats and sheep grazing on gorse-heathland vegetation with areas of improved pasture -- Validation of the alkane technique to estimate complex diets in sheep and goats fed on heathland vegetation -- Effects of grazing on Quercus faginea Lam. forests in Navarra (Spain) -- Effect of breed and stocking rate on live weight changes of goats grazing heath-gorse vegetation community -- Response of sheep fed with tropical tree legume foliages and Taiwan grass (Pennisetum purpureum) -- Nutritional characterization of some Mediterranean forestry resources -- Behaviour at grazing of calves with Galician Blonde suckler cows -- Vegetation dynamics of burned heath-gorse communities grazed by sheep or goats -- Adaptation of herbaceous plant species in the understorey of Pinus brutia -- Transition of an abandoned Dutch agrosilvopastoral landscape to 'new wilderness' by extensive grazing with free-ranging cattle and horses -- Live fences as a means of sustainable integration of livestock, trees and crops in Ségou, Mali.

Comparison of terrestrial and aerial oversowing of ski lanes grazed by sheep in the northern Apennines (central Italy) -- Tree growth and pasture production under sewage sludge fertilization -- Utilization of gorse and heather communities by cattle in mountain grazing -- Importance of holm-oak (Quercus ilex) as a woody food resource in Spanish ibex (Capra pyrenaica) diet in Mediterranean forest -- Woodland grazing in northern Ireland: effects on botanical diversity and tree regeneration -- Application of limed sewage sludge to a young Pinus radiata plantation on acid soil -- Effect of season on the ingestive behavior of cattle grazing Leucaena leucocephala -- Horse grazing on a mixture of Trifolium brachycalycinum and Cynodon dactylon in firebreaks of Tuscan Maremma (central Italy) -- Dry matter production and nutritive value of cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata L.) grown under different light regimes -- Evaluation of the production of acorns of the oak (Quercus ilex Lam. ssp. ballota) from south-west of Extremadura (Spain) -- Effect of different tree and shrub densities on the form, agronomic performance and quality of Panicum maximum in the Chaqueño Mountains, Bolivia -- Effects of management on acorn production and viability in holm-oak dehesas -- Effect of fertilization, tree species, plantation density and sowing mixture on pasture production and soil characteristics in silvopastoral systems -- Structure characterization of Quercus pyrenaica Willd open woodlands in the Spanish Central Mountain.: implications for silvopastoral management -- Pasture production under different tree species and spacing in an Atlantic silvopastoral system -- Effects of dairy sludge application on pasture production and arbuscular mycorrhizae in a sown meadow established in a hill soil.

Forage yield and botanical composition of a hill sown meadow fertilized with dried pelletized broiler litter -- Establishment of a bovine/Quercus silvopastoral experiment in lowland Ireland -- Integration of horses to orange tree plantations -- Facilitation of tree regeneration in pasture woodlands -- Effect of sheep grazing on coffee quality -- The influence of spacing and coppice height on herbage mass and other growth characteristics of Robinia pseudoacacia in a south-eastern USA silvopastoral system -- Session 3. Ecological implications of the silvopastoral systems: biodiversity and sustainable management -- Invited Key notes -- How much carbon can be stored in Canadian agroecosystems using a silvopastoral approach? -- Silvopastoral systems in Latin America and their contribution to sustainable development and biodiversity -- Compaction and erosion: effects on soil ecology and soil quality -- Indigenous breeds and silvopastoral systems -- Offered papers -- Silvopastoral systems to prevent soil losses in sustainable livestock systems -- Spatial dependence and seasonal patterns of cattle activity -- Impacts of cutting and fertilization on pasture systems in the Cantabrian mountain range in Leon province (NW Spain) -- Floristic stability of pastures in the Sierra Mágina nature reserve, Andalusia, Spain -- Effects of breed and stocking rate on vegetation dynamics and biodiversity in heath-gorse communities grazed by goats -- Biodiversity and dynamics of traditional sylvopastoral systems in Galicia (north-west Spain): Cytisus scrubs -- Root density and soil water relationships of a silvopastoral system of the tropical region of Yucatan, Mexico -- Cover crops effects on plant and insect biodiversity in Western Australian vineyards -- Live weight changes of sheep and goats grazing a burned heath-gorse vegetation community.

Management and ecological implications of silvopastoral systems in the Alps -- Light availability for understorey pasture in holm-oak dehesas -- Consequences of dehesa management on tree-understorey interactions -- Pasture establishment for extensive systems -- Biological diversity in communities of Erica ciliaris and Erica tetralix: analysis of their spatial and temporal variation -- Silvopasture as an approach to reducing nutrient loading of surface water from farms -- Some ecological impacts of Quercus rotundifolia trees on the understorey environment in the "montado" agrosilvopastoral system, southern Portugal -- Soil nutrient status and forage yield at varying distances from trees in four dehesas in Extremadura, Spain -- Rangeland health assessment in silvopastoral systems of northern Greece -- Post-fire ecological and dynamic characterization of shrubland communities in Galicia using structural variables -- Extensive livestock systems as tools for environmental management: impact of grazing on the vegetation of a protected mountain area -- Historical effects of grazing on tree establishment in the Cantabrian lowlands, northern Spain: a dendroecological analysis in two old-growth forests -- Changes in biodiversity after abandonment in dehesa systems in the province of León -- Session 4. Economic, social and cultural benefits of the silvopastoral systems -- Main invited Key note -- Economic considerations of silvopastoralism in California oak woodlands -- Invited Key notes -- Silvopastoral management in temperate and Mediterranean areas. Stakes, practices and socio-economic constraints -- Conservation "matching funds" from working woodlands in California -- Cultural aspects of silvopastoral systems -- Comparative analysis of the EAA/EAF and AAS agroforestry accounting systems: theoretical aspects.

Comparative analysis of the EAA/EAF and AAS agroforestry accounting systems: application to a dehesa estate.