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Sustainable management of hill land

Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association, 1993
One of the major environmental issues currently facing New Zealand is that of the sustainability of pastoral farming on North Island hill country. To be sustainable, a system must be resource conserving, environmentally compatible, socially supportive and commer-cially competitive.
A.D. Mackay, M.E. Wedderburn, M.G. Lambert   +2 more
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TreeSpider: In‐Canopy Exploration With Tether‐Based Aerial Modular Arms

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A tethered drone with perching arms and a 360° ring enables unprecedented maneuverability within dense forest canopies. By dynamically adjusting tether length and decoupling pitch from the frame, it navigates between branches, senses multiple trees, and interacts physically with foliage.
Luca Romanello, Tian Lan, Salaheldin Hassan, Maximilian Leutschafft, Erdem Ekinci, Sophie F. Armanini, Mirko Kovac, Basaran Bahadir Kocer   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

An integrated object-based sampling approach for validating non-contiguous forest cover maps in fragmented tropical landscapes

International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation
Validating forest cover maps is essential for evidence-based conservation and sustaining ecosystem services. However, complex spatial patterns in fragmented tropical forest landscapes—often comprising non-contiguous forest patches, interspersed with ...
Chima Iheaturu, Vladimir Wingate, Felicia Akinyemi, Chinwe Ifejika Speranza   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Factors that influence the implementation of sustainable land management practices by rural households in Tigrai region, Ethiopia

Ecological Processes, 2019
Background Sustainable land management is considered as one of the useful approaches to combat the threat of various forms of land degradation in Ethiopia. Despite this, there is scant information regarding households’ decision towards the implementation
Haftu Etsay, Teklay Negash, Metkel Aregay   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial variability of soil properties and soil erodibility in the Alqueva reservoir watershed [PDF]

, 2015
The aim of this work is to investigate how the spatial variability of soil properties and soil erodibility (K factor) were affected by the changes in land use allowed by irrigation with water from a reservoir in a semiarid area.
Andrade, R., Ferreira, V., Guerrero, Carlos, Loures, L., Panagopoulos, Thomas   +4 more
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Multimodal Locomotion in Insect‐Inspired Microrobots: A Review of Strategies for Aerial, Surface, Aquatic, and Interfacial Motion

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review identifies key design considerations for insect‐inspired microrobots capable of multimodal locomotion. To draw inspiration, biological and robotic strategies for moving in air, on water surfaces, and underwater are examined, along with approaches for crossing the air–water interface.
Mija Jovchevska, Kaushik Jayaram, Nicole Xu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Calibration of Low-Cost Capacitive Soil Moisture Sensors for Irrigation Management Applications

Sensors
The calibration of capacitive soil moisture sensors is an essential step towards their integration into smart solutions. This study investigates the calibration of a widely used low-cost capacitive soil moisture sensor (SKU:SEN0193, DFRobot, Shanghai ...
Ahmed A. Abdelmoneim, Christa M. Al Kalaany, Roula Khadra, Bilal Derardja, Giovanna Dragonetti   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainable Land Management: new ways towards regional environmental governance?

, 2010
Searching for potential improvements of governance strategies and concepts to solve complex land use problems is an ongoing activity in science and practice. Currently problems in land management are seen in an up to now missing integrative approach, limited reflections of complexity, fragmented problem analysis, incomprehensive strategy development ...
Weith, Thomas, Gaasch, Nadine, Schulz, Kristin, Zscheischler, Jana   +3 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

The multiple benefits delivered by hedgerows: Where is the evidence and does it meet current knowledge needs?

People and Nature
Hedges and hedgerows are a familiar feature in many global landscapes and can support a wide range of benefits. These range from environmental to societal, including habitat for wildlife, provision of pollination and pest control services, shade and ...
Katherine Clark, Alice L. Mauchline, Tijana Blanuša, Michelle Felton, Simon Potts, Michael P. D. Garratt   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source