Land use and land cover characteristics of an area supply important information for decision-makers in many disciplines. One of these areas is agriculture that obtains the benefits of these kinds of spatial information in order to plan future production effectively and efficiently. On the other hand, collecting, compiling, managing, analyzing, and displaying the field data are cumbersome duties...

Soil nematodes play crucial roles in the soil food web and are a suitable indicator for assessing soil environments and ecosystems. Previous nematode community analyses based on nematode morphology classification have been shown to be useful for assessing various soil environments. Here we have conducted DNA barcode analysis for soil nematode community analyses in Japanese soils. We isolated ne...

Rice cropping systems not only characterize comprehensive utilization intensity of agricultural resources but also serve as the basis to enhance the provision services of agro-ecosystems. Yet, it is always affected by external factors, like agricultural policies. Since 2004, seven consecutive No.1 Central Documents issued by the Central Government have focused on agricultural development in Chi...

The areas of wild land around the edges of agricultural fields are a vital resource for many species. These include insect pollinators, to whom field margins provide both nest sites and important resources (especially when adjacent crops are not in flower). Nesting pollinators travel relatively short distances from the nest to forage: most species of bee are known to travel less than two kilome...

The agricultural data classification is a hot topic in the field of precision agriculture. Support vector machine (SVM) is a kind of structural risk minimization based learning algorithms. As a popular machine learning algorithm, SVM has been widely used in many fields such as information retrieval and text classification in the last decade. In this paper, SVM is introduced to classify the agri...