Improving Soil Primary Productivity Conditions with Minimum Energy Input in the Mediterranean
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چکیده
As stated by the editors Brandt, C. and Thornes, J., 1996, “Both the vegetation and land use in the Mediterranean areas of Europe strongly reflect human activity since at least the Bronze Age”. Putting it briefly for the recent past ca. ninety-year period, the natural land‐ scape covered by the original “silvalusitana” has been deforested for agricultural purposes and substituted by monocultures of cereal crops, mainly wheat and barley, aiming at trans‐ forming the overall Alentejo region, southern continental Portugal, into the “granary of Por‐ tugal” (Pedroso, M. et al., 2009).
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