Linear elements in the agricultural landscape, particularly windbreaks, reduce wind speed and improve microclimate protected zone. They offer many direct effects on production with maximum benefits of ecosystem biodiversity. Despite indisputable advantages favourable permanent linear vegetation elements, their representation landscape is not as frequent it used to be. Moreover, formerly planted...

The Paraguayan Chaco is one of the most rapidly deforested areas in Latin America, mainly due to cattle ranching. Continuously forested windbreaks between agricultural and forest patches within these are mandatory minimise impact that legally permitted logging has on ecosystem. Due large area Chaco, comprehensive situ monitoring integrity landscape elements almost impossible. Satellite-based re...

Abstract Background Garcinia subelliptica (Fukugi in Japanese) is an evergreen tropical tree, first identified Batanes, the Philippines, which has been planted as a homestead windbreak and coastal forests extensively on Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. This article focuses traditional uses cultural values of Fukugi trees provides ethnobotanical information for conservation scheme this important tree ...

Sketch of experimental lot where windbreak protection was tested. East-west fence (left) is 6 feet high; north-south fence (top) is 8 feet high. Shed and barn also provide protection. duced the wind run by about one-half. Performance data (table 3) indicates the major effects of windbreaks were on feed intake and feed conversion. These effects were consistent for three years and were statistica...