Abstract The Polish rural cultural landscape is inherently linked to a special, centuries-old system that combines agricultural tradition and biodiversity. One of such environmentally, ecologically, agriculturally, historically, culturally unique areas the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. Home small holdings, this diversified mosaic where agricultural, husbandry, craft, local industry experience hand...

The existing land characteristics and inappropriate management during intensive agricultural practice on upland, swampland, paddy field are the factors that causing productivity to be low decreasing. Alternative efforts increase land, rice, maize productivities could carried out through implementation of Site- Specific Nutrient Management technology based RAE parameter. This paper presents thou...

Phosphorus (P) deficiency is a major constraint to crop production on highly weathered, lowactivity clay soils in the humid zone of West Africa. Past research suggested a linear relationship between grain yield and P uptake over a range of fertilizer P applied to upland rice cultivars. However, there is lack of information on how these relationships are affected by the long-term fertilizer ...

It is known that tofu quality tends to vary among soybeans even of the same variety. Cultivation environments can affect the contents of the soybeans. Twenty-seven soybean varieties were grown in a drained paddy field and an upland field, and then their protein and phytate contents were determined using the Fourier transfer infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) method. The phytate contents of 12 variet...

“Linking Research to Strengthen Upland Policies and Practice” This overall theme of the SSLWM conference 2006 suggests that policies and practices in upland development are generally deemed to be of better quality and higher impact if they are knowledge-driven or research-based. Nevertheless, the linkages between policy and research are not always smooth. This can partly be imputed to knowledge...

Three new genera and four new species of omomyid primates constitute the first record of the Primates from upland middle Eocene rocks of Wyoming. One of these, Strigorhysis, gen. nov., possesses broadly basined molars with highly crenulated enamel which probably indicates a good deal of tough vegetable matter in its diet. Each of the new genera could have descended from known Wasatchian or earl...

A new species of lowland karst dwelling Cnemaspis Strauch 1887, C. grismeri sp. nov. is described from the southeastern base of the Banjaran Bintang in northern Peninsular Malaysia. It is differentiated from its congeners by a unique combination of characters including size, coloration and scalation. Cnemapis grismeri sp. nov. is most closely related to C. mcguirei, an upland species endemic to...

Livestock grazing, which has a large influence on habitat structure, is associated with the widespread decline of various bird species across the world, yet there are few experimental studies that investigate how grazing pressure influences avian reproduction. We manipulated grazing pressure using a replicated field experiment, and found that the offspring sex ratio of a common upland passerine...

Background Amazonian upland forests are expansive and can comprise large continuous tracts. There have been several studies on the population genetic structure of species in this kind of forest, but there are few studies that aim to understand genetic structure throughout the Amazon [1]. The Brazil-nut tree, Bertholletia excelsa, is a monotypic genus, endemic to upland forests and distributed a...

The spate irrigation is among the oldest and largest community managed irrigation systems in Pakistan and is providing livelihood to local communities through indigenously developed, maintained and managed techniques. The “Riwajaat-eAabpashi” (irrigation customs) codified in British rule are main guidelines for irrigation in lowland systems while upland systems are governed through locally know...