One of the major goals of the Sustainable Agriculture Farming initiatives at UC Davis is to provide information about the feasibility of adopting conservation tillage and cover cropping at the farm level. The project includes two tillage schemes: standard tillage (ST) and conservation tillage (CT), and three farming methods: conventional, organic, and winter legume cover crop. All three product...

Climate change has resulted in increased vulnerability of smallholder farmers in marginal areas of Zimbabwe where there is limited capacity to adapt to changing climate. One approach that has been used to adapt to changing climate is in-field water harvesting for improved crop yields in the semi- arid regions of Zimbabwe. This review analyses the history of soil and water conservation in Zimbab...

We introduce a new model for simulating natural phenomena. We address several issues: topology, basic set properties like injectivity and surjectivity, reversibility, and decidability questions about a special kind of conservation law called grain conservation and ultimate periodicity.

4 Caveat Emptor 7 4.1 Lagrangian Wanted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.2 Not Quite a Conservation Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.3 Inequivalent Lagrangians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.4 Other Conservation Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.4.1 Dynamical Conservations Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.4.2 Solitons . . . . . . ....

Species-area relationships (SARs) are fundamental to the study of key and high-profile issues in conservation biology and are particularly widely used in establishing the broad patterns of biodiversity that underpin approaches to determining priority areas for biological conservation. Classically, the SAR has been argued in general to conform to a power-law relationship, and this form has been ...

Despite their ambiguous historical record, conservation/development interventions the world over have remained a popular environmental governance tool. One of the latest global ‘trends’ are interventions to establish so-called ‘Transfrontier Conservation Areas’ (TFCAs): large contiguous spaces that are principally aimed at conserving biological diversity across national boundaries. In line with...

In July of 2013, Taiwan passed its Wetland Conservation Act and will begin the implementation of the Act on 2 February 2015. With this Act, Taiwan has become the second Asian country to have specific legislation on wetland conservation and protection. This new law enables the society to achieve sustainable utilization on wetland ecological services. The core concepts of the Wetland Conversation...