Agricultural landscapes
Multi-objective optimization as a tool to identify possibilities for future agricultural landscapes
... within agricultural landscapes lie in the complexity of these systems, both in terms of the need to con- sider multiple functions of the system from economic, social and envi- ronmental perspectives and the ...
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Consequences of isolation distances on the allocation of GM maize fields in agricultural landscapes of Germany
... unpredictable but can be simulated using our approach. Although the p values are statistically significant, some are quite low. We suggest exploring and integrating additional landscape metrics into the coexistence simu- ...
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The interaction of New Zealand native plants with nitrogen in Canterbury’s agricultural landscapes
... in agricultural landscapes has seen New Zealand native species replace exotic trees and shrubs along paddock and riparian margins (Meurk and Swaffield 2000, Meurk and Hall ...through agricultural ...
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No Farm Is An Island: Pollinators And Pollination In Agricultural Landscapes
... entire landscapes (McKinney & Lockwood, 1999; Püttker, de Arruda Bueno, Prado, & Pardini, 2015), thereby imposing ecological filters that generate communities similar in species composition (de Castro ...
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Fractal scaling of soil particles in agricultural landscapes of Nigerian savannas
... Equation (1) was adopted for fractal scaling in this study because it leads to the evaluation of fragmentation fractal dimension which on agricultural landscapes can indicate changes caused by different ...
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Indigenous invertebrate components in ecological restoration in agricultural landscapes
... programmes. Many have appeared to assume that the re-creation of a plant seral stage will automatically result in colonisation by the appropriate animal assemblage, as is evident by the paucity of literature involving ...
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Wide-area mapping of small-scale features in agricultural landscapes using airborne remote sensing
... An alternative approach to the use of pixels is the use of objects which can add additional information to features of interest which can then be utilised in an Object Based Image Analysis (OBIA) protocol (Blaschke, ...
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Agricultural landscapes as habitat for birds in central Chile
... in agricultural lands, particularly in winter ...in agricultural landscapes, and thus can be an especially important to recover to conserve or restore biodiversity in Chilean agricultural ...
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Conservation planning in agricultural landscapes: hotspots of conflict between agriculture and nature
... of agricultural and natural habitat that buffers protected areas from edge effects and facilitates the movement of wildlife between pro- tected areas (Pimentel et ...ing agricultural land use in strict ...
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Plants in Remediating Salinity affected Agricultural Landscapes
... in landscapes that suffer ...salinity-afflicted landscapes, should equip interested people in recruiting environmentally friendly management of salt-affected agricultural landscapes especially ...
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Evaluation of using sentinel-1 and -2 time-series to identify winter land use in agricultural landscapes
... Monitoring vegetation cover during winter is a major environmental and scientific issue in agricultural areas. From an environmental viewpoint, the presence and type of vegetation cover in winter influences the ...
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Risk assessment of chemical mixtures in agricultural landscapes
... al. (2016) analyzed routine monitoring results for pesticides from 4,532 monitoring sites across Europe and the USA. They found that mixtures were dominated by herbicides and that the most frequently detected mixtures ...
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Evaluating topographic wetness indices across central New York agricultural landscapes
... Abstract. Accurately predicting soil moisture patterns in the landscape is a persistent challenge. In humid regions, topo- graphic wetness indices (TWIs) are widely used to approxi- mate relative soil moisture patterns. ...
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Scaling the benefits of agri environment schemes for biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes
... However, agricultural transformation may lead to restructuring of the community without noticeable change in co-occurrence (Fig 1D; Thébault and Fontaine, ...
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Multi-objective optimization as a tool to identify possibilities for future agricultural landscapes
... In this example the focus was on wheat production in a small landscape and with a defined set of control variables relating to fertiliser and manure application. Thus, there is clearly scope to expand the method to ...
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The population structure and demography of Triturus cristatus in agricultural landscapes of North West England
... The seven main study sites included five livestock farms: Lane Head Farm, Marlings Farm, Moss Shaw Farm, Seddon Fold Farm and Wittlestone Head 2.2.4 – 2.2.8 and two sites favourably mana[r] ...
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Agricultural chemicals: life changer for mosquito vectors in agricultural landscapes?
... improve agricultural production and human ...within agricultural areas where they are potentially exposed to agro- chemicals that are either applied to these farmlands or transported from nearby farmlands ...
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Effect of organic and conventional practices on the insects natural enemies communities in agricultural landscapes
... Caractérisation du contexte paysager des parcelles Afin de décrire le paysage environnant des parcelles et d’en tester l’effet sur les auxiliaires, deux types de cartographie ont été réa[r] ...
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Use of anthropogenic linear features by two medium size carnivores in reserved and agricultural landscapes
... It encompassed native and modified vegetation, and a network of roads consisting of a 12 km section of sealed road running through the centre of the area and gravel, dirt and 4WD minor roads and tracks. Areas to the west ...
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A high-altitude balloon platform for determining exchange of carbon dioxide over agricultural landscapes
... whether agricultural practices are an effective way to offset some of the carbon dioxide that was released into the atmosphere through an- thropogenic ...crops, agricultural practices that increase soil ...
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