Farming in sub-Saharan Africa outside South Africa typically takes place on small plots cultivated by individuals. The land tenure system is often described as 'communal', meaning that land is owned by a kin-based or political group and that individuals obtain the right to cultivate through their membership in that group. If a generalization is possible about the process through which people ob...

The Three-Rivers Headwaters region (TRHR) is an ecological shelter located in the northeast of the Tibetan Plateau, China, that provides environmental protection and regional sustainable development. This region also provides ecosystem services including water supply and soil conservation and exerts major impacts on both its surroundings, as well as the whole of China. A number of ecological re...

Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPN) are lethal parasites of insects, used as biocontrol agents. The objectives of this work were to survey the presence of EPN in continental Portugal and to characterize the different species. Of the 791 soil samples collected throughout continental Portugal, 53 were positive for EPN. Steinernema feltiae and Heterorhabditis bacteriophora were the two most abundant ...

introduction: land use in the overall concept is said to be the type of using land in the current situation which contains all users in different sectors of agriculture, natural resources and the industry. protecting land use is as follows: “prevent the change of application of certain lands by their owners, if their change has negative natural, economic, political, cultural, or scientific effe...

During the spring and summer of 1986, I studied the distribution and breeding biology of five rare birds in the Oklahoma Panhandle: Ferruginous Hawk (Hrrtcv regalis), Golden Engle (Aquiln cht-pctos), Prairie Falcon (Fnlco incsicn~rzrs), Mountain Plover (Clmradrirrs nzontnirrrs) and Long-billed Curlew (N~rinriiirrs ainrricn~iris). Longbilled Curlewsare regular migrants through the western half o...

the present study aimed to monitor the land use change in the shazand watershed with different development policies using land use net changes and exchanges in land change modeller (lcm) forperiod of1973to2014and in sub-watersheds scale. in the study period, rangeland area reduced about 380 km2 and rainfed and irrigation farm lands increased successively 100 and 150 km2 in the first and the sec...

River floods are influenced by factors such as the duration, intensity and spacial distribution of precipitation and the land-use as well as the morphological characteristics of the river basin. While the characteristics of the precipitation are tied to the climatology of the region and can change only over the long term, anthropogenic land use changes exhibit a more pronounced dynamic. However...

Land use/cover change (LUCC) is becoming more and frequent extensive as a result of human activities, expected to have major impact on welfare by altering ecosystem service value (ESV). In this study, we utilized remote sensing images statistical data explore the spatial-temporal changes land types ESV in northern slope economic belt Tianshan Mountains Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China fr...