A multi-scale object-based classification was carried out using data from three different sensors to map classes of interest in the framework of the EPISTIS project. This project aims to highlight the spatio-temporal patterns that underlie the epidemiology of certain diseases and more particularly of bluetongue in this case-study. A SPOT5 10m XS image of Sardinia taken in the springtime was seg...

Flooding is a natural disturbance affecting crop and forage production worldwide due to the detrimental effects that it provokes on most terrestrial plants (Bailey-Serres & Voesenek, 2008; Colmer & Vosenek, 2009). Over the last years, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (http://www.ippc.ch) has informed that man-induced world climate change will increase the frequency of precipitation...

The impact of crop management and agricultural land use on the threat status of plants adapted to arable habitats was analysed using data from Red Lists of vascular plants assessed by national experts from 29 European countries. There was a positive relationship between national wheat yields and the numbers of rare, threatened or recently extinct arable plant species in each country. Variance i...

The genus Collimonas consists of soil bacteria that have the potential to grow at the expense of living fungal hyphae. However, the consequences of this mycophagous ability for soil fungi are unknown. Here we report on the development of fungal communities after introduction of collimonads in a soil that had a low abundance of indigenous collimonads. Development of fungal communities was stimul...

To analyze the changes in the Upper Danube Floodplain, we used aerial photos to quantify the change of landscape pattern from 1963 to 2010. We focused on typical floodplain habitats, i.e., riparian forest and floodplain grassland. We used landscape metrics and transformation matrix to explore changes in land cover structure and composition. The active floodplain experienced increasing fragmenta...

The seasonal and spatial pattern of diet composition of a population of wild rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus L. occupying a southern Portuguese montado was estimated using the n-alkane technique. The diet was analysed in terms of components that are relevant to habitat management. The dietary categories considered were gum cistus leaves and ̄owers, cork oak and holm oak seedlings and acorns, cere...

Dry land farming in India accounts for 63% of the cultivated land of 144 million hectares. The crop production on these lands is dependent entirely on the natural precipitation, which is highly erratic in terms of spatial and temporal distribution during the crop-growing season. To address these problems, Government of India has accorded high priority to watershed approach for development of ra...

The work is devoted to the study of granulometric composition soils 120-year and 240-year agricultural development meadow-steppe landscape on example Belgorod region. In lateral distribution silt fraction contained in arable horizon, a significant increase its proportion lower parts soil catenas arable, for variations are less noticeable. averaged values content over slope profiles land showed ...

biodiversity refers to all forms of living animals, plants and microorganisms and agro-biodiversity is a component of biodiversity that represents diversity in arable lands. the aim of this study was to determine the biodiversity status of agro-ecosystems of shahr-e-rey city located in south of tehran, through calculating species richness index using rarefaction method. to the collect required ...

Ex-arable land-use change is a global issue with significant implications for climate and impact phytocenosis productivity soil quality. In temperate humid grassland, we examined the of variability changes properties on 23 years grass after conversion ex-arable to abandoned land (AL), unfertilized, fertilized managed grassland (MGunfert MGfert, respectively). This study aimed investigate betwee...