In arid and semi-arid areas, water vapor transport is an important form of soil movement plays a crucial role in the overall energy balance. For better prediction heat fluxes understanding root zone dynamics for effective crop management, moisture, temperature, texture micrometeorological data have been collected from field trials. Based on collected, Hydrus 1D model was established to simulate...

Semi-arid Mediterranean regions are highly susceptible to desertification processes which can reduce the benefits that people obtain from healthy ecosystems and thus threaten human wellbeing. The European Union Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 recognizes the need to incorporate ecosystem services into land-use management, conservation, and restoration actions. The inclusion of ecosystem services i...

Mapping vegetation cover is critical for understanding and monitoring ecosystem functions in semi-arid biomes. As existing estimates tend to underestimate the woody cover in areas with dry deciduous shrubland and woodland, we present an approach to improve the regional estimation of woody and herbaceous fractional cover in the East Asia steppe. This developed approach uses Random Forest models ...

Visual obstruction as a method to quantify herbaceous biomass in southern African semi-arid savannas Dave Joubert, Larkin A Powell & Walter H Schacht To cite this article: Dave Joubert, Larkin A Powell & Walter H Schacht (2015) Visual obstruction as a method to quantify herbaceous biomass in southern African semi-arid savannas, African Journal of Range & Forage Science, 32:3, 225-230, DOI: 10.2...

Rangeland monitoring services require the capability to investigate vegetation condition and to assess biomass production, especially in areas where local livelihood depends on rangeland status. Remote sensing solutions are strongly recommended, where the systematic acquisition of field data is not feasible and does not guarantee properly describing the spatio-temporal dynamics of wide areas. R...

A large proportion of rural households, particularly in the dry land areas, representative for more than 10% world's surface and up to 80% Morocco, depend their livelihoods on livestock. They exploit livestock's capacity live very harsh environments using herd-mobility at multiple scale level. Understanding contributions livestock household national economy raises complex research issues challe...