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1 Soil Carbon Accumulation During Temperate Forest Succession
 

Summary:  sequestration potential. The temporal pattern of soil C accumulation fol- lowing agricultural abandonment... (Chapin and others 2002). Patterns and rates of change in soil C fol- lowing agricultural abandonment have... following agricultural ...

  

Source: Grogan, Paul - Department of Biology, Queen's University (Kingston)

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
2 Carbon sequestration and biodiversity of re-growing miombo woodlands in Mozambique
 

Summary:  once agriculture was abandoned. We hypothesised that C stocks in both soils and vegetation of abandoned... and biodiversity responded once agriculture was abandoned. We sampled twenty-eight 0.125 ha plots that had... and on abandoned farmland ...

  

Source: 

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
3 Geomorphic and hydrological effects of traditional shifting agriculture in a Mediterranean mountain,
 

Summary:  in soil erosion after the abandonment of shifting agriculture, from the residuals of the correlation... landslides. Key words: shifting agriculture; sloping fields; runoff; soil erosion; land degradation; farmland... of shifting agriculture in a Mediterranean ...

  

Source: Portugués, Santiago Beguería - Faculty of Geosciences, Universiteit Utrecht

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
4 Rural Abandonment and Sustainable Development1
 

Summary:  encouraged the intensification of agriculture and have aggravated the trend toward abandonment of remote... of abandonment and intensification processes. The intensification of agriculture is associated with high... Mediterranean regions and the abandonment of their ...

  

Source: Zaferatos, Nicholas C. - Department of Environmental Studies, Western Washington University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
5 Land use change and soil nutrient transformations in the Los Haitises region of the Dominican Republic
 

Summary:  development of soils following abandonment of agriculture. This is because the sites undergoing modern... Cqualityofthese soils, or that not enough time has elapsed since agricultural abandonment to observe a difference... decrease soil fertility, ...

  

Source: Flecker, Alex - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
6 Jana E. Compton Richard D. Boone Glenn Motzkin David R. Foster
 

Summary:  in soil carbon and ni- trogen levels and processes after agricultural abandon- ment are not well... 1985). The lack of consistent response of important soil pro- cesses to agricultural abandonment has... con- centrations in the surface mineral ...

  

Source: Harvard University, Harvard Forest

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
7 Abandonment of agricultural land: an overview of drivers and consequences
 

Summary:  of abandoned agricultural land. These include hydrological regulation, soil recovery and erosion miti- gation... Review Abandonment of agricultural land: an overview of drivers and consequences Jose´ M. Rey... problems related to abandonment of ...

  

Source: Rey Benayas, José María - Departamento de Ecología, Universidad de Alcala

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
8 Vol. 17, No. 10 A PublicAtioN of the GeoloGicAl Society of AmericA october 2007 GSA TODAY publishes news and information for more than
 

Summary:  compilations of data from around the world show that soil erosion under conventional agriculture exceeds both... , improving--soil fertil- ity. consequently, agricultural production need not necessarily come at the expense... - tory and fate of civilizations. With global agricultural ...

  

Source: Montgomery, David R. - Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington at Seattle

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
9 World Reference Base for Soil Resources Urban and Industrial Soils 2007 ecomed publishers (Verlagsgruppe Hthig Jehle Rehm GmbH), D-86899 Landsberg and Tokyo Mumbai Seoul Melbourne Paris
 

Summary:  Urban Soil Classification Soil mapping has historically been associated primarily with agriculture... soil surveys (2nd ed). Agricul- tural Handbook 436. US Department of Agriculture Soil Conserva- tion... Reference Base for Soil Resources. World ...

  

Source: Rossiter, D G "David" - Department of Earth Systems Analysis, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Universiteit Twente

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
10 Author's personal copy ecological modelling 2 0 9 ( 2 0 0 7 ) 157168
 

Summary:  Accepted 19 June 2007 Published on line 8 August 2007 Keywords: Agricultural land-abandonment Gap dynamics... the last decades this trend has been reversed due to changing agricultural practices and land-abandonment... (Bockstael, 1996; Irwin and Geoghegan, 2001). However, a recent study of ...

  

Source: Zimmermann, Niklaus E. - Department of Landscape Dynamics and Management, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
11 Land use change and soil carbon--1 TR O P I C A L LA N D US E CH A N G E A N D SO I L CA R B O N
 

Summary:  after Agricultural Abandonment in the Neotropics." In Post-agricultural Succession in the Neotropics... . McGilvray. 2002. "Does Conversion of Forest to Agricultural Land Change Soil Carbon and Nitrogen... on forest land. An example is forest regrowth on abandoned ...

  

Source: Marín-Spiotta, Erika - Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin at Madison

 

Collection: Geosciences ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
12 Biogeochemistry and vegetation in a cranberry bog chronosequence Genevieve Noyce
 

Summary:  in these abandoned agricultural systems and the biogeochemical controls on these trends. I looked at fourteen... to the agricultural bogs, creating soil with alternating layers of sand and organic matter (Mason 1926). Because... , there are bogs that were abandoned upwards of 70 years ...

  

Source: Vallino, Joseph J. - Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
13 INTERPRETING THE RESULTS OF SOIL TESTS FOR HEAVY METALS Vern Grubinger and Don Ross, University of Vermont
 

Summary:  of Vermont Agricultural soils normally contain low background levels of heavy metals. Contamination from... ; unrestricted use includes agriculture. Table 2. Levels of heavy metals in soil used to guide cleanup and land... exposure. Pennsylvania State University, College of Agricultural ...

  

Source: Hayden, Nancy J. - School of Engineering, University of Vermont

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
14 Jaroslav Vojta: Imprints of history in post-agricultural forests Review of Ph.D. thesis
 

Summary:  of phosphorus appeared in samples of post- agricultural forests after 50 years of abandonment of villages... Jaroslav Vojta: Imprints of history in post-agricultural forests Review of Ph.D. thesis... in abandoned landscape. It consists of preface and three distinct papers published in international scientific

  

Source: Vojta, Jaroslav - Department of Botany, Charles University in Prague

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
15 Heathlands Human activities have made their mark on the Dutch landscape. Under the influ-
 

Summary:  was covered by heathland. Due to changes in agricultural practice the heathlands were abandoned in the latter... with heathland communities. Top soil removal Current policy provides opportunities to transform agricultural... considerably, even after shallow top soil removal. To reduce ...

  

Source: Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit - Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Department of Marine Benthic Ecology and Evolution,

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
16 Environmental causes and consequences of forest clearance and agricultural
 

Summary:  and accessibility in a geographic information system (GIS). To assess the effects of agriculture on forest soil... -collected soil samples from 47 post-agricultural and uncleared forests. Results Steeper slopes, less accessible... lands and lower-lime soils tended to remain forested, and ...

  

Source: Vellend, Mark - Departments of Botany & Zoology & Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
17 Husnjak et al., 2004. Soil inventory and soil classification in Croatia ISRIC World Soil Information Country Series
 

Summary:  -run soil survey was established - part of a large-scale investment in the agricultural sector following... agriculture, and to foster understanding of the soil resource. Its authors were influenced mainly... ) with map units at the soil form level, especially in intensively-used ...

  

Source: Rossiter, D G "David" - Department of Earth Systems Analysis, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Universiteit Twente

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
18 Flood Recovery Issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
 

Summary:  , in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Iowa State... .extension.iastate.edu/topic/recovering-disasters for cropland Repairing Flood-Damaged Farm Fields Shawn Shouse, Agricultural Engineer, Iowa State University... returning to full production. Flood debris, sand, silt, erosion, and loss of ...

  

Source: Iowa State University, Office of Biorenewables Programs

 

Collection: Renewable Energy

 
19 Volume 18 2008 Soil Series and Corn Yield Potentials
 

Summary:  conducted on an eroded Quakertown soil in 1993 and abandoned due to drought and crop failure, all dry land... Volume 18 2008 Soil Series and Corn Yield Potentials Situation Statement Soil surveys are often... potential of various soil series. Crop yield levels are frequently used in ...

  

Source: Goodman, Robert M. - Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
20 DEGREE OF PHOSPHORUS SATURATION (DPS) IN LAKE OKEECHOBEE BASIN SOILS
 

Summary:  ). For DPS evaluation, soil profiles were selected from three active and three abandoned dairies. All four... dairy For DPS evaluation, soil profiles were selected from three active and three abandoned dairies... and Agricultural Sciences SWS-01-04 A E Bh Bw #12;capacity of the ...

  

Source: Jawitz, James W. - Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology


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21 Serge Marlet et Pierre Ruelle (diteurs scientifiques), 2002. Vers une matrise des impacts environnementaux
 

Summary:  abandoned. Soil samples have been collected at four sites in each of the 18 selected fields, ranging from... is required to supplement the deficit in the water balance. The soils that are interesting from agricultural... affects agricultural crop production and often pushes farmers to ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
22 Carbon Management Response Curves: Estimates of Temporal Soil Carbon Dynamics
 

Summary:  of the change in soil carbon that accompanies a change in land use (e.g., forest to agriculture) or management... (particularly abandoned agricultural land where drainage tiles remain) Increase rotation complexity Inclusion... to the top 30 cm of soil. Soil Carbon ...

  

Source: Jain, Atul K. - Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Geosciences

 
23 in POST-AGRICULTURAL Jaroslav Vojta
 

Summary:  ., 2000. Dynamics of soil nitrogen and carbon accumulation for 61 years after agricultural abandonment... ., 2009. Long-term changes in soils of second-growth forest following abandonment from agriculture... populations (1.1.1. and 1.1.2.) and long-lasting changes in ...

  

Source: Vojta, Jaroslav - Department of Botany, Charles University in Prague

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
24 Natural forest regrowth as a proxy variable for agricultural land abandonment in the Swiss mountains: a spatial
 

Summary:  Natural forest regrowth as a proxy variable for agricultural land abandonment in the Swiss... European mountain regions, natural forest regrowth on abandoned agricultural land and the related... abandonment and forest regrowth when designing measures to prevent ...

  

Source: Zimmermann, Niklaus E. - Department of Landscape Dynamics and Management, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
25 Soil carbon sequestration and land-use change: processes and potential
 

Summary:  (1940) Soil Changes Associated with Loblolly Pine Succession on Abandoned Agricultural Land... (Pinus Resinosa Ait) on abandoned agriculture Land in the Great Lakes Region. In Soil Organic Matter... - mulating in the soils of formerly ...

  

Source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP)

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
26 Ecological Applications, 10(4), 2000, pp. 10741089 2000 by the Ecological Society of America
 

Summary:  of Agriculture and Forestry, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210009 P.R. China 3Department of Ecology, Nanjing Institute of Soil... the 1930s level, or 1.4 Mg N/ha on average. A 20% increase in agricultural soil N concen- trations caused... will fill most canals within 25 years, and N concentration in ...

  

Source: Ellis, Erle C. - Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
27 Global Change Biology (2000) 6, 317328 Soil Carbon Sequestration and Land-Use Change: Processes and
 

Summary:  establishing red pine (Pinus Resinosa Ait) on abandoned agriculture Land in the Great Lakes Region. In Soil... in the soils of formerly agricultural land. Key words: soil carbon, land-use, reforestation, carbon... -use. In agricultural ...

  

Source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP)

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
28 Ecology, 81(1), 2000, pp. 8898 2000 by the Ecological Society of America
 

Summary:  the conditions at abandonment. Finally, studies of abandoned agricultural fields sug- gest that soil organic... NITROGEN AND CARBON ACCUMULATION FOR 61 YEARS AFTER AGRICULTURAL ABANDONMENT JOHANNES M. H. KNOPS1... and nitrogen following ...

  

Source: Minnesota, University of - Cedar Creek Natural History Area

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
29 W ater QualitW ater Qualit School of AgricultureSchool of AgricultureSchool of AgricultureSchool of AgricultureSchool of Agriculture
 

Summary:  ). Contaminants enter directly into the ground water without being filtered by the soil. Abandoned wells are also... by the filtering effect of soil. Abandoned wells act like a pipe connecting ground water to the soil surface... W ater QualitW ater Qualit WQ-21 School of ...

  

Source: Fernández-Juricic, Esteban - Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
30 Classification of urban soils in the World Reference Base for Soil Resources
 

Summary:  Urban soils Soil remediation on abandoned gas factory, Enschede (NL) CaO slag, Essen (D) D G ROSSITER... where human influence (esp. for agriculture) is the main soil-forming factor Regosols for raw... OF URBAN SOILS IN THE WRB 32 Not Technosols streetcar ...

  

Source: Rossiter, D G "David" - Department of Earth Systems Analysis, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Universiteit Twente

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
31 Ecosystem N Distribution and d15 during a Century of Forest Regrowth
 

Summary:  : What is the pattern of d15 N in plants and soils over the course of agricultural abandonment? Do plants... after agricultural aban- donment. Site ages ranged from 10 to 115 years, with similar soils, climate... of forest regrowth after agricultural ...

  

Source: Perakis, Steven - Terrestrial Ecosystems Laboratory USGS & Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
32 70 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN July 2008 agriculture
 

Summary:  70 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN July 2008 agriculture The age-old practice of turning the soil before... soil vulner- able to erosion and pro- motes agricultural runoff. n Growers in some parts of the world... ANElAmbERTiStockphoto(tractor);ANDYANDERSON(no-tillseeder) [THE AUTHORS] David R. Huggins (left) is a ...

  

Source: 

 

Collection: Chemistry

 
33 Imprints of history in post-agricultural forests
 

Summary:  cover). #12;Conclusions Conclusions · Soils are influenced by former agriculture in different ways... Imprints of history in post-agricultural forests Jaroslav Vojta Charles University in Prague... influencing vegetation of secondary forests in abandoned villages (Jaroslav Vojta - Preslia 79: 223-244) PAPER

  

Source: Vojta, Jaroslav - Department of Botany, Charles University in Prague

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
34 Determinants of growing season soil CO2 flux in a Minnesota grassland
 

Summary:  D. 2000. Dynamics of soil nitrogen and carbon accumulation for 61years after agricultural... Determinants of growing season soil CO2 flux in a Minnesota grassland JOSEPH M. CRAINE1,* and DAVID... , Cedar Creek Natural History Area, Grass- lands, Soil CO2 flux, Temperature Abstract. Soil ...

  

Source: Minnesota, University of - Cedar Creek Natural History Area

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
35 European Commission DG ENV Soil biodiversity: functions, threats and
 

Summary:  in agricultural and natural ecosystems, and human diseases. Soil organisms may also control, or reduce... the conversion of grasslands to agricultural lands, is responsible for the largest carbon losses from soils... biodiversity. Soil organic matter depletion and ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
36 Soil Ecology Applied Soil Ecology 15 (2000) 75-83
 

Summary:  Agriculture, Greenbelt, MD, 42 PP. Lal, R., 1994. Methods and Guidelines for Assessing Sustainable Use of Soil... on functional indicators of soil quality as influenced by management in sustainable agriculture. In: Lal, R... for Agriculture. National Academy Press. Washington, DC, 516 ...

  

Source: USDA, Jornada Experimental Range

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
37 http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jsme2/ doi:10.1264/jsme2.23.000 Microbes Environ. Vol. 23, No. 1, 000000, 2008
 

Summary:  . Lavelle, and J.P. Rossi. 2004. Soil macro- faunal communities along an abandoned rice field chronosequence... development in a chronosequence of land abandonment. Soil Biol. Biochem. 38:51­60. 72) Vécrin, M.P., and S... . Phytoremediation is usually a key component of bioremediation. However, without ...

  

Source: Adl, Sina - Department of Biology, Dalhousie University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
38 Energy 29 (2004) 16431650 www.elsevier.com/locate/energy
 

Summary:  carbon stocks in agricultural ecosystems As with forested landscapes, the quantity and quality of soil C... of soil Fig. 1. Average annual C sequestration expected following a change in agricultural practice... demonstrated that a change in agricultural management can result in an ...

  

Source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Fossil Energy Program

 

Collection: Fossil Fuels

 
39 Report to the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture Founding Director of New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health
 

Summary:  losses from diseases caused by soil-borne pathogens. 61% of the respondents reported abandoning a high... and others in the agriculture community will yield viable solutions." Reliable alternatives to reduce soil... Report to the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture March 2010 Spotlights ...

  

Source: Goodman, Robert M. - Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
40 Ecological Applications, 16(1), 2006, pp. 143153 2006 by the Ecological Society of America
 

Summary:  CONVERSION FROM AGRICULTURE TO GRASSLAND BUILDS SOIL ORGANIC MATTER ON DECADAL TIMESCALES KENDRA K... . Former agricultural soils of the Great Plains may function as carbon sinks for less than a century... of these studies focus on changes in sur- face soils during the first decade after ...

  

Source: Minnesota, University of - Cedar Creek Natural History Area

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology


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41 Landscape and Urban Planning 79 (2007) 6576 Investigating the regional-scale pattern of agricultural land abandonment
 

Summary:  of agricultural land abandonment in the Swiss mountains: A spatial statistical modelling approach Mario Gellrich... , agricultural land abandonment and the related consequences for the environment are issues of increas- ing... regional-scale pattern of agricultural land ...

  

Source: Zimmermann, Niklaus E. - Department of Landscape Dynamics and Management, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
42 Summary Observations on the net carbon exchange of for-ests in the European Mediterranean region, measured recently
 

Summary:  characterized on agricultural and forest soils in East Africa in the 1950s and 1960s by H. F. Birch and now of... and a third site compris- ing abandoned agricultural fields and macchia. Site details for the two forest sites... 3. This island was abandoned in 1988 and the former ...

  

Source: 

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
43 Biennial rotations: Why do Mafa farmers abandon such an efficient agricultural system?
 

Summary:  Biennial rotations: Why do Mafa farmers abandon such an efficient agricultural system? (Mandara... farmers developed sophisticated agricultural techniques implying sound knowledge about the ecology... is a cereal, the sorghum. The Mafa still practice an intensive agriculture in an inhospitable and mixed

  

Source: Caillon, Sophie.- Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
44 Tellus (2003), 55B, 613621 Copyright C Blackwell Munksgaard, 2003 Printed in UK. All rights reserved
 

Summary:  reserved TELLUS ISSN 0280­6509 Managing soil organic carbon in agriculture: the net effect on greenhouse... organic carbon in agricultural soils. In addition to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, carbon... sequestration strate- gies for agricultural soils can ...

  

Source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Fossil Energy Program

 

Collection: Fossil Fuels

 
45 Soil and Water Science Department University of Florida Arsenic background concentrations in Florida urban soils
 

Summary:  database on arsenic background concentrations in urban and agricultural soils where most soil contamination... and agricultural areas throughout Florida will be collected based on locations, soil types, and land uses... Arsenic background concentrations in Florida urban and ...

  

Source: Ma, Lena - Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Environmental Management and Restoration Technologies

 
46 Agricultural land abandonment and natural forest re-growth in the Swiss mountains: A spatially explicit economic analysis
 

Summary:  Agricultural land abandonment and natural forest re-growth in the Swiss mountains: A spatially... mountains where agricultural land has been abandoned and overgrown by trees and bushes. Therefore... , which is abandoned and www.elsevier.com/locate/agee Agriculture, ...

  

Source: Zimmermann, Niklaus E. - Department of Landscape Dynamics and Management, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
47 Juliane Palm (Dipl. Biologist) PhD student at the University of Potsdam within the
 

Summary:  ,,Modelling spatial distribution of earthworms in agricultural fields" Field observations and modelling... Diploma thesis at the Free University of Berlin ,,Effects of heavy metals on collembola in abandoned... sewage field soils" Ecotoxicological field and laboratory studies #12; Earthworm sampling at different

  

Source: Schröder, Boris - Institut für Geoökologie, Universität Potsdam

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
48 Institute of Ecosystem Studies www.ecostudies.org
 

Summary:  in soils abandoned from agriculture are 30 to 40 gC/m2 /yr (Post and Kwon 2000)--less than 1/10 of the rate... 2006). Abandoning agricultural lands might offer some soil carbon sequestration, but large... to the atmosphere when it is burned. The potential for carbon ...

  

Source: Colorado at Boulder, University of - Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Biogeochemistry Laboratory; Jones, Clive G. - Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
49 Abstract In the present study, soil C and N mineraliza-tion and nutrient availability were compared: (1) in
 

Summary:  deforested for charcoal (Kahurananga 1995) and agricultural production. Agricultural soils usually have lower... availability and soil fertility (Nadelhoffer 1990; Gaiser et al. 1994). As agriculture has mostly been... 11 2( ) ( ) #12;woodland savanna soils into ...

  

Source: Lehmann, Johannes - Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
50 Arid Land Research and Management, 15:2339, 2001 Copyright 2001 Taylor & Francis#
 

Summary:  abandonment (Karpiscak 1980). These lands are classiÐed by the U.S. Depart- ment of Agriculture, Soil... on abandoned farmland in southeastern Arizona. Applied Agricultural Research 3:36È43. Cox, J. R., and G. W... . Ecology 57:596È602. U.S. Department of ...

  

Source: Smith, Steven E. - School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
51 LAND USE AND PARENT MATERIAL EFFECTS ON SOIL ORGANIC CARBON AND NITROGEN IN THE
 

Summary:  (KPCC). Thus soil conservation, agricultural development and land use planning in this region... % of the landscape (62% range, 21% agriculture). Over 40% of agriculture was concentrated on two soil parent material... on agriculture, but for lacustrine ...

  

Source: Wisconsin at Madison, University of - Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE)

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
52 ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACCEPTABILITY OF PHOSPHORUS-SATURATED OCHRE AS A FERTILISER
 

Summary:  to agricultural land in the U.K. permit such applications providing they do not contaminate the soil or plants... to agricultural land, as included in the Code of Good Agricultural Practice for the Protection of Soil (MAFF, 1998... . Table 1. Maximum permissible concentrations of metals ...

  

Source: 

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
53 Hydropedology and Surface/Subsurface Runoff , ERIN BROOKS2
 

Summary:  AND JAN BOLL2 1 Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA... , US 2 Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, US 3... Department of Plant, Soil, and Entomological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, US The role of ...

  

Source: Kaye, Jason P. - Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Pennsylvania State University; NONE

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
54 IIInnnttteeerrrnnnaaatttiiiooonnnaaalll UUUnnniiiooonnn ooofff SSSoooiiilll SSSccciiieeennnccceeesss TTThhheee FFFuuutttuuurrreee
 

Summary:  dealt with the shift of focus in soil science from agriculture to broader environmental aspects (Gardner... . Soil science and society in the Dutch context. Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Science, 50: 133... of the pedologist. The Journal of Australian Institute of Agricultural ...

  

Source: Grunwald, Sabine - Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida; Sparks, Donald L. - Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware

 

Collection: Environmental Management and Restoration Technologies ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
55 The Ecological Society of America wwwwww..ffrroonnttiieerrssiinneeccoollooggyy..oorrgg In the debate over how to balance conservation and
 

Summary:  to forest (Rey Benayas 2005). Agricultural abandonment is a global phenomenon and is usually a result... , but so can agricultural abandonment. It seems that agriculture, woodland, and biological conservation... restoration involves the colo- nization of abandoned ...

  

Source: Rey Benayas, José María - Departamento de Ecología, Universidad de Alcala

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
56 Journal of Ecology 2008, 96, 314322 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01345.x 2008 The Authors. Journal compilation 2008 British Ecological Society
 

Summary:  Colorado, had much lower rates of instantaneous change in soil C 50 years after agricultural abandonment (0... agricultural abandonment. Ecology, 81, 88­ 98. Lal, R. (2004) Soil carbon sequestration impacts on global... -long grassland biodiversity experiment ...

  

Source: Janssen, Michel - Program in the History of Science and Technology and Medicine & Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota; Minnesota, University of - Cedar Creek Natural History Area

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Multidisciplinary Databases and Resources ; Physics

 
57 Type of contribution: Original research paper1 Title: Charcoal consumption and casting activity by Pontoscolex corethrurus (Glossoscolecidae)3
 

Summary:  in earthworm density and community structure during23 secondary succession in abandoned tropical pastures. Soil... in "Applied Soil Ecology 28, 3 (2005) 217-224" DOI : 10.1016/j.apsoil.2004.08.003 #12;2 Abstract1 2... ). Their cast production was measured in7 containers in the presence of pure charcoal, soil ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
58 Original article Soil chemical properties in abandoned Mediterranean cropland after succession
 

Summary:  Original article Soil chemical properties in abandoned Mediterranean cropland after succession... Quercus ilex Soil fertility Tree planting a b s t r a c t Large extents of cropland have been abandoned... more than a decade. Reforestation can accelerate the recovery of some soil ...

  

Source: Rey Benayas, José María - Departamento de Ecología, Universidad de Alcala; Villar-Salvador, Pedro - Departamento de Ecología, Universidad de Alcala

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
59 430 SSSAJ: Volume 71: Number 2 MarchApril 2007 Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 71:430441
 

Summary:  of agricultural land with native prairie and grassland vegetation can greatly enhance soil C accumulation (Gebhart... . Sequestered C via prairie restoration efforts in degraded agricultural soils is attributable to a higher... sequestration rates on land converted from agricultural ...

  

Source: Wisconsin at Madison, University of - Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE)

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
60 Human activities can create changes to landscapes that are perpetuated through time as ecological legacies thereby creating a palimpsest effect in modern plant communities and soils. In the course of the
 

Summary:  of changed soil on modern plant community Bronze Age field in central Sweden. Abandoned ca 3500 years ago... legacies thereby creating a palimpsest effect in modern plant communities and soils. In the course... patches on small scale agricultural terraces (~1-50m) and larger scale areas surrounding pueblo ...

  

Source: Hall, Sharon J. - School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology


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61 CARBON DIOXIDE AND METHANE FLUXES BY A FOREST SOIL UNDER LABORATORY-CONTROLLED
 

Summary:  -based study on agricultural soils, Nesbit and Breitenbeck (1992) found a response to moisture comparable... ) A laboratory study of factors in¯uencing methane uptake by soils. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 41... CARBON DIOXIDE AND METHANE FLUXES BY A FOREST SOIL UNDER ...

  

Source: Harvard University, Harvard Forest

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
62 Biogeochemistry 55: 293309, 2001. 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.
 

Summary:  . Residual phosphorus in runoff from successional forest on abandoned agricultural land: 1. Biogeochemical... the northeastern US and other regions. Introduction The rate of agricultural land abandonment in the northeastern... forest succession on abandoned ...

  

Source: Cornell University, Soil and Water Laboratory; Walter, M.Todd - Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Geosciences

 
63 Agriculture and Natural Resources Family and Consumer Sciences 4-H Youth Development Community and Economic Development COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, LEXINGTON, KY, 40546
 

Summary:  OF AGRICULTURE, LEXINGTON, KY, 40546 AEN-104 Abandoned wells are often the only struc- tures remaining after... an AbandonedWellSteve Higgins and Sarah Wightman, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Figure 3... . This abandoned well is located in an agricultural ...

  

Source: Consortium for Fossil Fuel Science, C1 Chemistry Program

 

Collection: Fossil Fuels

 
64 A Primer on Wisconsin Soil Classification By Jim Bockheim, Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 

Summary:  of Wisconsin-Madison Soils play an important role in Wisconsin's economy, particularly in agriculture... soil, is a soil series found in central Wisconsin that is used for agriculture, grazing, and forestry... 1 A Primer on Wisconsin Soil Classification By Jim ...

  

Source: Wisconsin at Madison, University of - Department of Engineering Physics, Computational Materials Group

 

Collection: Fission and Nuclear Technologies ; Materials Science

 
65 Pedobiologia 49 (2005) 127--137 Ant-induced soil modification and its effect on
 

Summary:  and abandoned nests in which the soil fertility of abandoned nests was similar to conditions in the surrounding... of occupied and abandoned mounds. We assumed that if a colony was established in patches with distinct soil... properties and ant activity was not an important source of ...

  

Source: Herben, Tomas - Department of Botany, Charles University in Prague

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
66 Assessing the performance of phosphorus-saturated ochre as a fertilizer and its environmental acceptability
 

Summary:  of the metals after it is applied to soil, must be examined before application to agricultural land can... for appli- cation of ochre to soil are those relating to the application of sewage sludge to agricultural... (PTEs) in soil after application of sewage sludge to ...

  

Source: 

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
67 1. Do you have a livestock yard located less than 100 feet from your drinking-water well?
 

Summary:  of soil tests and waste analysis. · Dig up permanently abandoned yards and apply the manure-and-soil... . Is your livestock yard located on soil that is 1) excessively well drained, 2) coarse-textured (sands... NO t t t t t t t t t t FARM A SYST TENNESSEE THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE ...

  

Source: Tennessee, University of - Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, Animal Waste Management Program

 

Collection: Renewable Energy ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
68 Contribution of agricultural liming to riverine bicarbonate export and CO2 sequestration in the Ohio River basin
 

Summary:  such as Ca and Mg, the primary purpose of agricultural liming is to maintain or increase the soil p... to soil but also to stream pH affecting many ecological processes. Elevated soil pH by agricultural liming... in soils favorable for ...

  

Source: Raymond, Peter A. - School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Geosciences

 
69 Carbon Mineralization and Labile Organic Carbon Pools in the Sandy
 

Summary:  higher %SC/TOC (8.1%) than other landuse types (5.7, 5.3 and 3.4% for abandoned cultivated soil, wetland... Carbon Mineralization and Labile Organic Carbon Pools in the Sandy Soils of a North Florida... 1 Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida, P.O. Box 110290, Gainesville, Florida

  

Source: Grunwald, Sabine - Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
70 Variations in microbial community composition through two soil depth profiles
 

Summary:  and agricultural soil profiles. Soil Science Society of America Journal 62, 942­951. Allison, L., Moodie, C., 1965... . Biological properties of soil and subsurface sediments under abandoned pasture and cropland. Soil Biology... in two contrasting Western Australian ...

  

Source: Colorado at Boulder, University of - Alpine Microbial Observatory

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
71 he floods of 24 May 2004 and the trag-ic loss of thousands of lives in south-
 

Summary:  to the abandonment of mar- ginal grazing and agricultural lands, particu- larly in the mountains. In other areas... . Regardless of the motive for migrating, the abandonment of agricultural and grazing lands will facilitate... species, such as African grasses or ferns, dominate recently ...

  

Source: Aide, Mitchell - Department of Biology, Universidad de Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
72 New Agroforestry Site: Kotumachigi village About 20 Km from the town of Gadag
 

Summary:  and children. #12;Red and black soil. Very few big trees. Rainfed agriculture, kharif crops. #12;Soil sampling... abandoned (dried up) · Two open ponds, mixed use and only for a month or two after the rainy season... , onion and cotton · Red and black soil #12;Drudgery for water and ...

  

Source: Rubloff, Gary W. - Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland at College Park

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
73 Historical influences on the vegetation and soils of the Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts coastal sandplain
 

Summary:  and grassland land cover categories, but soils in agricultural grasslands had higher pH, extractable Ca2+ and Mg... -depen- dent anthrophilous species (Dupouey et al., 2002) and recently abandoned agricultural lands... agricultural fields, (3) scrub oak (Q. ilicifolia) shrublands on ...

  

Source: Harvard University, Harvard Forest

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
74 Study site in Son La Province, Vietnam investigating appropriate soil-water-plant management practices for sustainable crop and livestock production (CRP project
 

Summary:  resource bases. Improving soil and water management is a critical issue for enhancing agricultural... for crop production in irrigated agricultural systems but also on the improve- ment of soil health... of soils in food productivity and agricultural wa- ter ...

  

Source: Richner, Heinz - Zoologischen Institut, Universität Bern

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
75 Author's personal copy Review Paper
 

Summary:  disturbances such as agricultural conversion or plant invasions have altered soil properties, the underlying... fraction of several agricultural systems. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 35, 1245­1255. N. Fierer et al... as Influenced by Cropping and Soil Treatments. Technical Bulletin ...

  

Source: Colorado at Boulder, University of - Alpine Microbial Observatory

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
76 Methods of soil P analysis in archaeology Vance T. Holliday a,*, William G. Gartner b
 

Summary:  agriculture depleted soil P, and changed other soil properties across much of northwest Europe in ways... in traditional Zuni agricultural fields over long periods, as shown by the analysis of soils from upland... of byres led to superim- posed P signatures from domestic and ...

  

Source: Holliday, Vance T. - Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
77 Estimating soil carbon fluxes following land-cover change: a test of some critical assumptions for
 

Summary:  that soil C storage following abandonment of managed lands returns to preconversion values after 35 years... MUF, McGilvray H (2002) Does conver- sion of forest to agricultural land change soil carbon... Estimating soil carbon fluxes following land-cover change: a test of some critical ...

  

Source: Powers, Jennifer S. - Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota; Read, Jane M. - Department of Geography, Syracuse University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
78 The response of understory herbaceous plants to nitrogen fertilization in forests of different land-use history
 

Summary:  that have regrown following agricultural abandonment tend to have fewer forest-adapted plant species... forests. Former agriculture can either increase or decrease the availability of soil nutrients... that the post-agriculture site had less available inorganic N. Total ...

  

Source: Fraterrigo, Jennifer - Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
79 December 2003 / Vol. 53 No. 12 BioScience 1159 Since the origin of agriculture, the human popula-
 

Summary:  activities. The fate of the abandoned agricultural lands depends on different factors (table 1). Forest... .For example,if only the 5% of the watershed with the highest erosion rates (bare soil, agriculture on steep... ) and 103% (all agriculture). Soil erosion is also ...

  

Source: Aide, Mitchell - Department of Biology, Universidad de Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
80 2008 Rodale Institute The Organic Green Revolution
 

Summary:  higher. Such results reflect poorly on conventional agriculture. In conventional agriculture, the soil... plant growth and productiv- ity. Regenerative systems that feed the soil are the best agricultural... - ment on soil microbial processes and nitrogen ...

  

Source: Bensel, Terrence G. - Department of Environmental Science, Allegheny College

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology


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81 Effects of Short-and Long-Term Disturbance Resulting from Military Maneuvers on Vegetation and
 

Summary:  of soil carbon in early successional mixed prairie area after cropland abandonment is exceedingly slow... and Soils in a Mixed Prairie Area SHERRY A. LEIS* DAVID M. ENGLE Department of Plant and Soil Science... Oklahoma State University 368 North Agriculture Hall Stillwater, Oklahoma ...

  

Source: Fehmi, Jeffrey S. - School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
82 Trends and scenarios of the carbon budget in postagricultural Puerto Rico (19362060)
 

Summary:  Contrary to the general trend in the tropics, Puerto Rico underwent a process of agriculture abandonment... decreases with forest age and there is little agricultural land remaining to be abandoned. Due to high per... population migration from rural to urban areas and abandonment of ...

  

Source: Aide, Mitchell - Department of Biology, Universidad de Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
83 Community composition of soilborne pathogens in an old field: Implications for Prunus serotina seedling survival and succession
 

Summary:  with Prunus trees to 75 meters from the hedge row in a recently abandoned agricultural field. No differences... composition in the recently abandoned agricultural field. Cherry frequently colonizes early during the course... the hedgerow in a recently abandoned ...

  

Source: Packer, Alissa A. - Department of Biology, Susquehanna University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
84 Agrarian legacy in soil nutrient pools of urbanizing D AV I D B R U C E L E W I S *w 1
 

Summary:  . Agriculture in dry lands thus sequesters material in soils, and--as we also found higher material contents... (Maricopa County agricultural data). Soils are typic aridisols. Data collection and analysis To identify... similar in landform and landscape position to most of the ...

  

Source: Kaye, Jason P. - Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Pennsylvania State University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
85 A. Bastrup-Birk and P. Gundersen Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 8(4), 764777 (2004) EGU
 

Summary:  afforestation in an agricultural catchment in Denmark illustrated with the INCA model 767 soil water stations... ON AGRICULTURAL LAND Forests planted on modern agricultural soils may be different from old growth forests... agricultural soils ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
86 ERDC/ELTR-11-4 Wetlands Regulatory Assistance Program
 

Summary:  Figure 20. Indicator F3 (Depleted Matrix) is often found in active and abandoned agricultural fields... . ................................................................................................................84 Figure 52. Aerial photograph of an agricultural field with saturated soils indicated by ...

  

Source: US Army Corps of Engineers - Aquatic Plant Control Research Program (APCRP)

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
87 This article appeared in a journal published by Elsevier. The attached copy is furnished to the author for internal non-commercial research
 

Summary:  's personal copy Modelling soil organic carbon dynamics in the major agricultural regions of China Ligang Wang... Accepted 24 July 2008 Available online 7 September 2008 Keywords: Soil organic carbon Chinese agriculture... climatic zones, soil types and cropping management regimes. To ...

  

Source: 

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
88 RESEARCH ARTICLE Forest recovery in a tropical landscape: what is the relative
 

Summary:  , agricultural abandonment is less likely to occur in fertile soils. However, for plots that undergo transi- tion... urbanization, abandonment of agriculture, and forest re-growth. Although these patterns are well documented... succession Á Forest transition Á ...

  

Source: Uriarte, Maria - Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
89 Sharpening the Focus of Yolo County Land Use Policy
 

Summary:  . The agricultural data combine with soil data, road data and interviews to define the agricultural regions of Yolo... production in specific commodities are visible. The agricultural data in combination with soil, roads... looks at the spatial distribution of soil ...

  

Source: Hammock, Bruce D. - Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis

 

Collection: Biotechnology

 
90 Comp. by: PG2693 Stage : Proof ChapterID: 8 Date:13/8/10 Time:17:07:30 Filepath:H:/3B2/Bruihnzeel-9780521760355/Applications/3B2/Proof/8.3d
 

Summary:  abandoned, often because of a loss of agricultural product- ivity associated with accelerated erosion. Soil... resulted in the loss of >50 cm of soil, which greatly limits agriculture and forest recovery (Aide... ). This review addresses the following questions: Once pastures or ...

  

Source: Aide, Mitchell - Department of Biology, Universidad de Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
91 John N. Quinton Current and past posts
 

Summary:  ) Quinton, J.N., Govers, G., Van Oost, K. and Bardgett, R.D. 2010. The impact of agricultural soil erosion... erosion assessment and soil conservation design - the EUROSEM approach. Outlook on Agriculture, 23: 5... Action 832:Phosphorus loss from agricultural soils: ...

  

Source: Quinton, John - Department of Environmental Science, Lancaster University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
92 Summary The potential capacity of soil to sequester carbon in response to global warming is strongly regulated by the ratio
 

Summary:  and the sites had been reforested with larches following abandonment as agricultural fields. The dis- tance... . Mariko, T. Nakadai, Y. Bekku and T. Mela. 1999. Soil respiration in three soil types in agricultural... in agricultural fields. Can. J. ...

  

Source: Chen, Jiquan - Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Toledo; Luo, Yiqi - Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
93 Draft (8 April 2007) submitted for Copenhagen Consensus 2008. Comments welcome Land Degradation
 

Summary:  provide an observable and credible measure of trends in soil quality. Agricultural practices fundamentally... . However, agriculture also entails degradation processes: · Soil erosion: Clearing of natural vegetation... , leading to faster soil mining. World ...

  

Source: Coxhead, Ian - Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin at Madison

 

Collection: Multidisciplinary Databases and Resources

 
94 Copyright 2008 by the author(s). Published here under license by the Resilience Alliance. Grau, H. R., and M. Aide. 2008. Globalization and land-use transitions in Latin America. Ecology and
 

Summary:  agricultural systems and rural­urban migration coupled with remittances promote the abandonment of marginal... agricultural lands, thus favoring ecosystem recovery on mountains, deserts, and areas of poor soils, while... ). The concentration of modern agriculture on the most productive ...

  

Source: Aide, Mitchell - Department of Biology, Universidad de Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
95 Evidence for the silicate source of relict soils on the Edwards Plateau, central Texas
 

Summary:  Survey of Kerr County, Texas. USDA Soil Conservation Service in cooperation with the Texas Agricultural... Evidence for the silicate source of relict soils on the Edwards Plateau, central Texas M. Jennifer... , Quantico, VA 22135, USA Received 30 August 2005 Available online 7 February 2007 Abstract Relict ...

  

Source: Banner, Jay L. - Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
96 Spring 1986 Research Could Help Revegetate Sand Hills
 

Summary:  Spring 1986 Research Could Help Revegetate Sand Hills by Pat Larsen Erosion-prone abandoned center... l provide basic inform ation on the amount of mycorrhizal fungi in eroded and disturbed soils... on various crops and grasses improves phosphorus uptake by roots. "Sand Hills soils are very low

  

Source: Nebraska-Lincoln, University of - Sand Hills Biocomplexity Project

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
97 November 2000 / Vol. 50 No. 11 BioScience 947 Soil as an Endangered Ecosystem
 

Summary:  25 millimeters (1 inch) of topsoil lost to erosion. The minimal soil depth for agricultural... ecosystem. --DAVID PIMENTAL College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Cornell University Soil and biological... November 2000 / Vol. 50 No. 11 BioScience 947 Soil as an Endangered Ecosystem More ...

  

Source: Sparks, Donald L. - Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware

 

Collection: Environmental Management and Restoration Technologies

 
98 The profound impacts of human land use on biologi-cal diversity via habitat loss and fragmentation
 

Summary:  , phases of forest clearance for agriculture were fol- lowed by agricultural abandonment and forest... differ in vegeta- tion and soils from forests that were never cleared for agriculture, even 2000 years... ceased, plant communities on abandoned ...

  

Source: Vellend, Mark - Departments of Botany & Zoology & Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
99 QuestionQuestion How does nitrogen deposition affect roadside
 

Summary:  traffic on frontage roads Ammonia from fertilizers used in both current and abandoned agriculture Grey... : Approach Zone C: Berm or Embankment Seed bank sample Soil samples 1m2 quadrat for vegetation cover survey... and adsorption of the air pollutant HNO vapor to soil surface. Atmospheric Environment ...

  

Source: Hall, Sharon J. - School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
100 MASTER OF SCIENCE THESIS SEAN WILLIAM DONOHUE
 

Summary:  in alluvial soils of agricultural-suburban watersheds. In two of the riparian zones numerous dark, thin lenses... and grass pollen were linked to agricultural abandonment during the late 1800's or changes in agricultural... practices during the late 20th century. Forest regeneration ...

  

Source: Gold, Art - Department of Natural Resources Science, University of Rhode Island

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology


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