Hybrid poplars have demonstrated high productivity as short rotation woody crops (SRWCs) in the U.S. Midwest, and the hybrid aspen ‘Crandon’ (Populus alba L. × P. grandidenta Michx.) has exhibited particularly promising yields across topographic positions (including sloping marginal lands) in Iowa. However, a key obstacle for landowner acceptance of SRWCs is the lack of economic returns early i...

The process of erosion and desertification affects social communities, agricultural lands and natural resources in coastal areas. The rapid coastline changes would cause social and economic issues in the coastal areas. In this study, Miankaleh coasts and the eastern coastlines of Amirabad port have been surveyed due to existing benchmarks since June 2013 until December 2015 in order to analyze ...

The rapid pace of climate change poses a major threat to biodiversity. Utility-scale renewable energy development (>1 MW capacity) is a key strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but development of those facilities also can have adverse effects on biodiversity. Here, we examine the synergy between renewable energy generation goals and those for biodiversity conservation in the 13 M ha Moj...

The energy versus time of arrival pattem of neutrinos from SN1987A is sensitive to a neutrino mass, m~, of order a few eV. To disentangle constraints on m~ from the data, a theory of supernova emission is necessary. We recall the present status of this theory and approximate its predictions in two diffusion models: one designed to reflect the present supernova lore, the other devised to pessimi...

in this research, geographical information system (gis) and analytical hierarchy process (ahp) were applied to agricultural land use suitability of aq-qala township for barley cropping in rainfed condition. for this purpose, 17 environmental layers of the study area collected, and thematic maps such as slope, elevation, precipitation, average, minimum and maximum temperatures and some of micro ...