Based on the Project report of Determination Rangeland Availability and Range Status Classes carried out by Management Eastern Anatolia Agricultural Research Institute, eleven districts Çanakkale are ordered in terms rangeland quality. For this reason, four different rankings were obtained AHP, TOPSIS, VIKOR WASPAS methods. According to made methods, while district with highest quality was Biga...

Prescribed rangeland burning in April is a long-standing practice in the Flint Hills region of eastern Kansas to maintain the tallgrass prairie ecosystem. The smoke plumes originating from these fires increases ambient PM2.5 concentrations and potentially contributes to ozone (O3) exceedances in downwind communities. Source apportionment research using Unmix modeling has been utilized to estima...

Aerial photography acquired with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has great potential for incorporation into rangeland health monitoring protocols, and object-based image analysis is well suited for this hyperspatial imagery. A major drawback, however, is the low spectral resolution of the imagery, because most lightweight cameras suitable for UAVs only acquire imagery in the red, green, and blu...

Aerial photography from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) bridges the gap between ground-based observations and remotely sensed imagery from aerial and satellite platforms. UAVs can be deployed quickly and repeatedly, are less costly and safer than piloted aircraft, and can obtain very high-resolution imagery. At the Jornada Experimental Range in New Mexico, ongoing research is aimed at determini...

The Grasshopper Integrated Pest Management Project (GHIPM) WDS a S15 million projccllhat lasted from 1986 La 1994 to identify, develop, and implement rangeland grasshopper management tactics within the Framework of Integrated Pest Management (lPI\'I) in the western United Stales. Computer simulation has been used La fulfill many original objectives for GHIPM and help bridge the gap between theo...

since last decades, there has been a growing interest in the human/social dimensions of natural resources governance especially the structure of social networks in achieving to successful co-management of natural resources. network analysis as a suitable tool in optimum planning of the “network management” of rangeland in regional scale, can improve inter-organizational decision-making and coor...

We examined changes in rangeland health in the semi-arid woodlands of eastern Australia at fixed sites between 1989 and 1999. Over the 11-year period there were significant declines in the quality of the vegetation, and changes in plant species were driven largely by seasonality, and to a lesser extent, amount of rainfall. Three indices of rangelands health (composition, function and stability)...

There have been few attempts to develop, test or apply sustainability indicators for natural resource management at a farm-level, and even fewer have fully consulted land users from the initiation of this process. While environmental sustainability indicators need to be accurate and reliable, land users also need them to be rapid, cost-effective and easy to use, in addition to being linked to m...