wind erosion is a significant problem on 20 million ha of iran, especially in central plains and coastal areas. winderosion samplers, meteorological equipments and measurement procedure have been developed over the last twocenturies to measure the particles moving across the field in modes of creep, saltation and suspension. in recentresearch as the first technical measurement in iran, wind ero...

Common lands provide smallholder farmers in Africa with firewood, timber, and feed for livestock, and they are used to complement human diets through the collection of edible nontimber forest products (NTFPs). Farmers have developed coping mechanisms, which they deploy at times of climatic shocks. We aimed to analyze the importance of NTFPs in times of drought and to identify options that could...

Deforestation for conventional farming has affected soil quality (SQ) worldwide. The goal of our study was to evaluate the impact land use change, from forest subsistence farming, on SQ in Benin. Composite soils forest, horticultural, agricultural, fallow, and degraded lands were collected analyze chemical physical properties. Using inductive additive approach principal component analysis (PCA)...

According to the fundamental goal of remote sensing technology, the image classification of desired sensors can be introduced as the most important part of satellite image interpretation. There exist various algorithms in relation to the supervised land use classification that the most pertinent one should be determined. Therefore, this study has been conducted to determine the best and most su...

Abstract The Loyalty Islands are part of the French archipelago New Caledonia in Southwest Pacific. In these islands, Gibbsic Ferralsols (Humic) traditionally used for fire-fallow cultivation (FFC) by Kanak people, but planting perennial orchards has been encouraged over past two decades. impacts this policy on soil organic carbon (SOC) nevertheless unknown, especially clay-free soils which mat...

The article focuses on the initial stage of virgin and fallow lands development in Pavlodar region. authors elaborated climatic features region, noting that this territory was characterized by complex natural zones had huge deposits minerals. climate north-eastern Kazakhstan sharply continental, arid, soils were mostly unsuitable for farming, so cultivation grain crops fraught with risks diffic...

One hundred and nine soil samples were collected in 69 different localities along two transects, one North– South, about 900 km in length, and the other East–West (750 km in length), across Senegal and Gambia. The first transect followed a rainfall gradient and the second a human density gradient. The relationship between carbon content, C/N ratio and soil type on the abundance and species dist...