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WEATHER RISK, CROP MIX, AND WEALTH IN THE SEMI-ARID TROPICS [PDF]

Crop Production/Industries,
Lamb, Russell L.
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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

Late summer plateau pika spatial habitat use revealed by high‐resolution wildlife tracking and unmanned aerial vehicle data on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
Tiny “ecosystem engineers,” plateau pikas range across 1600 m², about two basketball courts, mixing soil and nutrients that sustain Tibet's fragile grasslands. Custom‐made trackers and drone imagery show dawn‐to‐dusk surface foraging and nested‐scale patch choices, offering fresh guidance for wildlife‐friendly grazing management.
Dan Li, Johannes M. H. Knops, Li Li
wiley   +1 more source

Key soil health indicators under humid grazing lands

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
Soil health can be described using a few key soil health indicators that target a diversity of soil functions. This perspective article highlights how forage management affects these soil health indicators in humid‐zone grazing lands. Abstract Background Soil health describes critical soil functions influenced by land management. Although some key soil
Alan J. Franzluebbers
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

Effect of Time-Since-Fire on Ant Communities in a Semi-Arid Landscape. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Fernando NL, Schultz NL, Palmer G, Barton PS.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Intensification of maize-legume based systems in the semi-arid areas of Tanzania to increase farm productivity and improve the farming natural resource base: Africa RISING ESA Project proposal 2013/14 [PDF]

, 2014
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
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Economic Policy and Desertification in Arid and Semi-arid Developing Countries [PDF]

Environmental degradation in arid and semi-arid regions often results from trade-offs between immediate and long-term needs. Ecological (and ultimately economic) benefits of restrained, sustainable resource use are well-understood by scientists, and are ...
Mark Speece
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Needle‐shaped diatom frustules in food as a possible promoter of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in coastal southeastern China: A pilot study

International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
What's New? Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) incidence varies worldwide, suggesting that local environmental and dietary factors are influential. In coastal southeastern China, food products derived from small filter‐feeding fish are important dietary components, though their consumption increased ESCC risk.
Haisheng Wu, Yang Li, Lihua Ran, Zhiying Xia, Pi Guo, Shenxi Deng, Erica Conway, Yuan He, Jun Zheng, Huachen Zhu, Linwei Tian   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lacs collinaires en Tunisie semi-aride

, 1994
L'opération "lac collinaire", une des composantes de la stratégie nationale et décennale en matière de conservation des eaux et des sols en Tunisie, est décrite dans ses objectifs, son organisation et la réalité concrète des premières réalisations.
/Talineau, Jean-Claude, Selmi, S., Alaya, K.   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source