Agricultural useful soils in many parts of India and the world are slightly contaminated by presence of heavy metal toxicity. Few as Cd, Cu, Zn, Ni, Co, Cr, Pb, and As. This because long-term use of phosphatic fertilizers, sewage sludge application, dust from smelters, industrial waste and bad watering practices in agricultural lands [13]. Toxics Link in India has been involved both at the glob...

Worldwide land consolidation policies have been used during decades to improve efficiency in crop production through the consolidation of fragmented agricultural lands. At a landscape scale the effect of these policies that promote higher clustering of homogeneous crops is questionable, as spatial patterns influence the probability of exotic pests arriving and spreading across the landscape. Th...

Arizona is the first state in the nation to regulate agricultural practices in order to reduce dust emissions near urbanizing areas. This BMP program requires dust mitigation actions in some combination of tillage and harvest, crop land, and non-crop land activities. Contingent valuation methods were used to estimate the willingness-to-adopt reduced tillage equipment. At $10-26 per acre in long...

The conservation of biodiversity within tropical forest regions does not lie only in the maintenance of natural forest areas, but on conservation strategies directed toward agricultural land types within which they are embedded. This study investigated variations in bird assemblages of different functional groups of forest-dependent birds in three agricultural land types, relative to distance f...

Grassland bird species have experienced substantial declines in North America. These declines have been largely attributed to habitat loss and degradation, especially from agricultural practices and intensification (the habitat-availability hypothesis). A recent analysis of North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) "grassland breeding" bird trends reported the surprising conclusion that insecti...

Hyperspectral images (HSI) offer detailed spectral reflectance information about sensed objects through provision of on hundreds narrow bands. HSI have a leading role in broad range applications, such as forestry, agriculture, geology, and environmental sciences. The monitoring management agricultural lands is great importance for meeting the nutritional other needs rapidly continuously increas...