Arid rangeland
The effects of exclosure on plants in the semi-arid rangeland of North Khorasan province, Iran
... Over the last fifty years, most of the semi-arid rangeland in Iran has been converted to cropland without an equivalent reduction in grazing animals. This shift has led to heavy grazing pressure on ...
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Water treatment residuals and biosolids co-applications affect phosphates in a semi-arid rangeland soil
... In this article, we examine both the long-term effects of a single co- application of biosolids and WTR and the short-term impacts of a repeated co-application on soil acid phosphomonoes[r] ...
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Assessment of the Palmer drought severity index in arid and semi arid rangeland: (Case study: Qom province, Iran)
... Drought is a normal, recurring feature of climate phenomena; it may occur virtually in all climatic regions. The effects of drought accumulate slowly and its impacts are spread over a larger geographical area than other ...
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Growth Performance of Moringa oleifera and Moringa ovalifolia in Central Namibia Semi Arid Rangeland Environment
... Moringa oleifera and Moringa ovalifolia are drought-resistant trees that with- stood the harsh climate of Namibia. Although both trees grew well in this harsh environment, Moringa oleifera grew faster in heights compared ...
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The role of rainfall and light interception by litter on maintenance of surface soil water content in an arid rangeland (Khabr National Park, southeast of Iran)
... that rangeland litter decrease evaporation of the soil water content and light interception by litter have more important role in decreasing evaporation from the soil water content than the rainfall interception ...
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Application of Bio Solids as Soil Amendment in Arid Rangeland of Jordan
... covered with soil to prevent its wash away with winds. In each plot, six seedlings of Salsola species are planted, these species are the predominant wild plant for arid regions of Jordan. Figure 2 shows the ...
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Livestock redistribute runoff and sediments in semi-arid rangeland areas
... Abstract. Semi-arid areas where grazing is the main land use exhibit a “three-phase-mosaic” pattern of dominant sur- face patches: shrubs, trampling routes, and intershrub areas. This pattern differs from the ...
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Wildlife and Livestock Grazing Effects on Some Physical and Chemical Soil Properties (Case Study: Kalmand-Bahadoran Arid Rangelands of Yazd Province)
... in arid rangeland management, and the variable effects of different kinds of herbivores on soil, this study compares some of the physical and chemical properties of soil between two regions experiencing ...
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Evaluation of Dorycnium spp as Alternative Forage Plants
... Rev., 42:49-58 Wills, B.J., Lowther, W.L., and Trainor, K.D., 1999, Semi-arid rangeland revegetation in the South Island, New Zealand: plant species and establishment technology, Proceed[r] ...
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Weather Station Siting and Consumptive Use Estimates
... To document the effect of weather station aridity on consumptive use estimates, three sites in irrigated areas and two sites in nonirrigated, arid rangeland in southern Idaho were instru[r] ...
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AMINO ACID AND PROTEIN PROFILES OF VICIA FABA SALT-STRESSED SEEDLINGS GROWN FROM THERMALLY-STRESSED SEEDS
... In arid and semi-arid environments, chilling and heat stresses on the seed bank are often coupled with the impact of relatively high salinity levels in the soil and/or irrigation water on emerging embryos ...
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Assessment of spatial distributions of some climate indices in Iraq
... hyper-arid, arid, and semi-arid categories are predominant with almost (91%) to (100%) of the country’s ...from arid to humid. Autumn season dominated by arid at (97%) of study ...the ...
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Diversity of Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated to Acacia seyal (Delile) in semi-arid zone of Senegal
... on arid and semi-arid regions revealed predominance of Glomeraceae and Acaulosporaceae species after pot- culture ...from arid and semi-arid ...the arid and semi-arid regions ...
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A matrix model of a rangeland grazing system.
... The vegetation of each soil type of a pasture for a particular year was represented by a state vector of total cover categories, showing the proportion of plots [r] ...
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Estimation of Runoff Peak Flow by El-Hames Empirical Method for Ungauged Catchments: A Case Study Iranshahr
... in arid areas; these methods, which use physical and geomorphological characteristics or statistical techniques to achieve their objectives, have been presented by Hames et ...of arid and semi-arid ...
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Socio-economic effect on socially-deprived communities of developing drinking water quality problems in arid and semi- arid area of central Rajasthan
... Groundwater occurs almost everywhere beneath the Earth surface. It is not in a single widespread aquifer, but in thousands of local aquifer systems and compartments that have similar characters. Knowledge of the ...
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VARIETAL RESISTANCE TO SALINITY IN MAIZE M. RAl*
... Maize is a crop of the arid and semi-arid tracks of India. Keeping ever increasing salinity problem in view, it is worthwhile to assess the impact of saline water irri[r] ...
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The Effect of Rangeland Attributes on Milk Yield in Rangeland Dependent Dairy Cattle Farms in Erzurum Province of Turkey
... of rangeland and grazing cow attributes on daily milk yield per cow in rangeland dependent dairy cattle ...Method. Rangeland condition values were calculated based on the vegetation studies in the ...
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PRELIMINARY ASSESSESMENT ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH IMPLICATION OF CAMEL TUBERCULOSIS IN PASTORAL AREA OF ETHIOPIA
... Pastoral production system accounts for the livelihood of 50–100 million people in developing countries and 60% of this population lives in more than 21 African countries confined to the most arid and ...
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Assessment of Rangeland Health Attributes and Indicators in Sustainable Range Management (Northern Kordofan)
... appropriate, rangeland health ecological attributes evaluation will also be made based on experience and knowledge of the rangeland ecosystem to decide which rating techniques should be used on an ...
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