Plant life and food production for human closely depend on fertile and healthy soil. Knowledge about qualitative properties of soil and its potential production can contribute us in the plantation, fertilization, utilization and land management. In addition, Rangelands cover a very large portion of the earth's surface and play an important role in food security and other ecosystem services. The...

The capability of L band wavelengths to register the soil emission over sparse to moderately dense forests makes attractive the comparative study of the soil moisture content and vegetation biophysical parameter. Soil and vegetation conditions contribute to the microwave measurements through complex interactions, basically resulting from vegetation structure and from moisture content and roughn...

Comparisons to ground-based surface soil moisture estimates are necessary to evaluate the capability of remote sensors to determine soil moisture and its spatiotemporal variability. Soil moisture can be especially variable in regions of complex terrain which exhibit large variations in vegetation, soil properties and hydrologic conditions. The objective of this study is to evaluate the spatiote...

the aim of this study was to investigate relationships between soil properties and plant species to determine the most effective factors separating vegetation communities in rineh rangeland. three stratifying variables were selected including slop, aspect and elevation. the study area was partitioned by combining these classes to generate homogenous units. 1m2 quadrates were located at sampling...

plants have noticeable effects on soil resources distribution and its biochemical processes, and organic materials are naturally much more in the understory soil as compared to open areas. vegetation as one of the soil formation factors is not always an independent variable, so that the soil and vegetation can have interaction. the present study was conducted to investigate the effects of hedys...

the current research was carried out to find out the most effective environmental factors in plant species occurrence by classification and ordination methods. for this purpose, the study was conducted in nir rangelands of yazd province and topography, climate, soil and grazing intensity data of the region were determined. sampling method was randomized–systematic and within each sampling unit ...

A non-random sampling design allowed to distinguish within a virgin beech ecosystem two main components of humus profile heterogeneity. The stratification of the profile into horizons reflects changes in the composition of the soil/litter matrix occurring under the influence of the anisotropic deposition of leaf and wood litter and the stratified occurrence of soil organisms (roots, microbes, a...

Forest ecosystems are among the largest terrestrial carbon reservoirs on our planet earth thus playing a vital role in global carbon cycle. Presently, remote sensing techniques provide proper estimates of forest biomass and quantify carbon stocks. The present study has explored Landsat-8 sensor product and evaluated its application in biomass mapping and estimation. The specific objectives were...

Rangeland vegetation dynamics can be affected by various natural and unnatural factors over time. The purpose of this study was to investigate the dynamics of vegetation under the climatic conditions and soil properties. Accordingly, data collection for evaluating vegetation dynamics in rangeland ecosystems of Ardabil province was conducted at three research sites including Moqan winter rangela...