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A Comprehensive Review on the Significance, Sources, and Applications of Virtual Water on Global Platform

Food Safety and Health, EarlyView.
A conceptual framework of virtual water showing its sources, major applications, components of the virtual water footprint, and emerging future directions. The diagram emphasizes the growing role of virtual water in global sustainability and resource planning.
Priti Bhowmik, Charu Rajpal, Vinay Kumar Pandey   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Archetypes of common village pasture problems in the South Caucasus: insights from comparative case studies in Georgia and Azerbaijan

Ecology and Society, 2019
Complex social-ecological systems (SES), especially systems with common pool resources, often exhibit system dynamics characterized by emergence, where system properties cannot be fully explained by input variables.
Regina Neudert, Anja Salzer, Naiba Allahverdiyeva, Jonathan Etzold, Volker Beckmann   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluating the potential for the environmentally sustainable control of foot and mouth disease in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

, 2013
Strategies to control transboundary diseases have in the past generated unintended negative consequences for both the environment and local human populations.
A Caron, A Catley, A Murwira, A Picado, Alexandre Caron, B Perry, Bertrand Chardonnet, BM Bronsvoort, BM Bronsvoort, C Bedelian, C Riginos, CJ Jost, DA McGranaghan, Daniel Thomas Haydon, David James Paton, DHM Cumming, DJ Augustine, DJ Paton, DJ Paton, FM Kivaria, Fredrick Mathias Kivaria, G Cozzi, G Harris, GR Thomson, GR Thomson, I Scoones, ID Craigie, J D’Amico Hales, J Hanks, J. Grant C. Hopcraft, JC Mariner, Julius Keyyu, K Ferguson, Kenneth J. Ferguson, M Garine-Wichatitsky De, MD Kock, ME Gadd, PA Lindsey, R Kock, RB Boone, RG Bengis, Richard A. Kock, RS Reid, RS Reid, RT Taylor, S Osofsky, SA Osofsky, SA Osofsky, Sarah Cleaveland, SK Hargreaves, SO Ohaga, Thomas Nyariki, Tiziana Lembo, W Vosloo, WB Karesh, WD Newmark   +55 more
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Seasonal drivers of plant–soil–microbial community structure and functions in Western Himalayan grasslands, Pakistan

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
Plant species richness was greater in summer in both alpine and subalpine grassland ecosystems. Soil moisture demonstrates significant positive correlations with soil organic carbon and total nitrogen across seasonal periods. Microbial α‐diversity peaks during summer but maintains functional stability across seasons.
Huma Ali, Muhammad Rafiq, Allan Degen, Ben Sparrow, Zhanhuan Shang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effectiveness of integrated shrub management and restoration techniques for rehabilitating shrub‐encroached rangelands of South Africa

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
Herbaceous plant recovery following shrub clearing and reseeding in the rangelands of Peddie, Eastern Cape of South Africa. CTL, control; CO, cutting only; CR, cutting and reseeding; UPO, uprooting only; UPR, uprooting and reseeding. Abstract Background Shrub encroachment (SE) drives rangeland degradation, threatening biodiversity and forage ...
Monelisi Makanya, Khanyisa Jama, Mthunzi Mndela, Sinalo Malindie   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lidar Aboveground Vegetation Biomass Estimates in Shrublands: Prediction, Uncertainties and Application to Coarser Scales

Remote Sensing, 2017
Our study objectives were to model the aboveground biomass in a xeric shrub-steppe landscape with airborne light detection and ranging (Lidar) and explore the uncertainty associated with the models we created.
Aihua Li, Shital Dhakal, Nancy F. Glenn, Lucas P. Spaete, Douglas J. Shinneman, David S. Pilliod, Robert S. Arkle, Susan K. McIlroy   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Concentration and composition of condensed tannins in leaves from fodder trees and shrubs in Pakistan

JSFA reports, EarlyView.
Abstract Background The lack of dependable, high‐quality forage and animal feedstuffs in many areas of the world hampers livestock production. In these regions, farmers often rely on native fodder tree and shrub leaves as a forage source for their animals with little or no information available on nutritional factors of these feedstuffs.
Ishrat Roomi, Wayne E. Zeller, Matt Akins, Azhar Hussain   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping Restoration Activities on Dirk Hartog Island Using Remotely Piloted Aircraft Imagery

Remote Sensing, 2022
Conservation practitioners require cost-effective and repeatable remotely sensed data for assistive monitoring. This paper tests the ability of standard remotely piloted aircraft (DJI Phantom 4 Pro) imagery to discriminate between plant species in a ...
Lucy Wilson, Richard van Dongen, Saul Cowen, Todd P. Robinson   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vegetation Structure and Diversity Under Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration: A Comparison of Silvo‐Arable and Silvo‐Pastoral Systems in Kenya

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is a low‐cost, adaptable agroforestry practice that enhances land restoration by promoting systematic integration of naturally regenerating trees within farming systems through tree selection and management.
Irene Awino Ojuok, Madelon Lohbeck, Till Stellmacher, Ermias Aynekulu, Tony Rinaudo, Christian Borgemeister   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Climate Change on California Rangelands and Livestock Management

Agriculture, 2023
On a global scale, rangelands occupy approximately half of the world’s land base surface; have a critical role in carbon sequestration and biodiversity; and support a diverse and critical economy, but at the same time, are under threat by many factors ...
Steven M. Ostoja, Hyeyeong Choe, James H. Thorne, Pelayo Alvarez, Amber Kerr, Jennifer Balachowski, Julian Reyes   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source