Monitoring of reclaimed sites is a complex, interdisciplinary undertaking, especially in large, disturbed areas with difficult access. In that context, remote sensing is a unique and valuable tool that provides a synoptic view of an entire reclamation program and its progress over time, extending the more detailed but sparsely distributed in situ monitoring. Using remote sensing data, we are cr...

I build a model that explains Midwestern US maize and soybean yield as a function of weather and soil capability. Climate change is expected to reduce mid-century maize and soybean yields in the Midwest by 8% to 28% and 7% to 23%, respectively, depending on cropped land’s soil capability and severity of climate change, compared to baseline values calculated with no climate change. I find that s...

Large-scale reclamation projects during the past decades have been recognized as one of the driving factors behind land subsidence in coastal areas. However, the pattern of temporal evolution in reclamation settlements has rarely been analyzed. In this work, we study the spatio-temporal evolution pattern of Linggang New City (LNC) in Shanghai, China, using space-borne synthetic aperture radar i...

Land reclamation in Penang began two decades ago and is still rampant with large reclamation projects planned to be executed in the near future. The present study provides the first information on effects of land reclamation in Penang towards the coastal macroinvertebrates. This study assessed the abundance, diversity, and evenness of coastal invertebrates assumed to be the foremost affected wh...

In western United States, both mine reclamations and renewed mining at previously abandoned mines have increased substantially in the last decade. This increased activity may adversely impact bats that use these mines for roosting. Townsend’s big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii) is a species of conservation concern that may be impacted by ongoing mine reclamation and renewedmineral extractio...

During oil-sands mining all vegetation, soil, overburden, and oil sand is removed, leaving pits several kilometers wide and up to 100 m deep. These pits are reclaimed through a variety of treatments using subsoil or a mixed peat-mineral soil cap. Using nonmetric multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis of measurements of ecosystem function, reclamation treatments of several age classes wer...

Wetland reclamation has occurred under diverse geographic and socio-political conditions. A single event however, forms only one step in the evolution of what we refer to as landscapes. This paper assesses how interacting physical geographical, cultural biological processes shape landscape diachronically. Using a triangular model, compare two wetland landscapes: Pontine marshes central Italy, r...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Soil acidity and its indices 2.1. Actual acidity. 2.2. Potential acidity. 2.3. Cation (positive ion) exchange capacity and saturation with bases. 3. Natural reasons for increasing soil acidification 3.1. Leaching regime. 3.2. Soil-forming rocks and plants. 3.3. The distribution of acid soils. 4. The reasons for anthropogenic acidification of soils. The phenomenon of ...

Reclamation of Arid LandsIt is our pleasure to inform you that Springer International Publisher (2017) has published a book entitled "Reclamation of Arid Lands" in English.This book is the result of joint collaboration between the University of Tehran, University of Kashan and Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, whose authors are as follows:Mohammad Jafari: Professor, Faculty of Natur...