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These sound pretty cool. If a researcher would write up a guide on them, I'd expect a lot of people would like to create one on their property.

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Akira Miyawaki did a similar thing in Japan. He studied Shinto shrine forests, catalogued the species and observed how they work together which led him to develop a method for planting forests. HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26114425

It's not quite the same, but there is a lot of renewed interest of similar farming styles under the names of permaculture and agroforestry

and horticulture

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