Peat swamp forest have a high economic value and are potential for agricultural development. However, peatlad fragile ecosystems because they easily damaged difficult to restore. The main problem of all peat soil types is their irreversible drying. In this condition the easy burning, unable store water, if groundwater far from surface, plants will be stressed lack water. Therefore support susta...

Soil conservation practices have been widely implemented on the Loess Plateau to reduce severe soil erosion in north-central China over the past three decades. However, the hydrologic impacts of these practices are not well documented and understood. The objective of this study was to examine how water yield has changed after implementing soil conservation practices that resulted in changes in ...

In order to maintain a proper balance between development pressure and water resources protection, and also to improve public participation, efficient tools and techniques for soil and water conservation projects are needed. This paper describes the development and application of a web-based watershed management spatial decision support system, WebWMPI. The WebWMPI uses the Watershed Management...

Birds living in desert environments have been the preferred models for the study of physiological adaptations to water scarcity. Passerine birds living in marine coastal habitats face similar problems, yet physiological adaptations to water conservation in such species have been poorly documented. We measured total evaporative water loss (TEWL) and rates of oxygen consumption (VO2) in three spe...

Stochastic optimization is used to estimate the willingness-to-pay WTP of individual households and groups of households for changes in a combination of probabilistic water supply reliability and retail price of water. By modeling the financial and “perceived” costs of implementing longand short-term conservation options and assuming rational expected value cost minimizing behavior, economic de...

Key Laboratory Soil and Water Conservation and Desertification Combating, Ministry of Education, College of Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, PR China College of Landscape Architecture and Ornamental Horticulture, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, PR China c The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA Raleigh ...

Rural Realities is published by the Rural Sociological Society, Brigham Young University, 2019 JFSB, Provo, Utah 84602 [email protected] http://www.ruralsociology.org • The farm bill creates dual incentives for both crop production and conservation. Frequently, these two goals pull in opposite directions; subsidies lead farmers to focus on crops that depend heavily on water, contribute to...