Citation: de Groot GA, Jagers op Akkerhuis GAJM, Dimmers WJ, Charrier X and Faber JH (2016) Biomass and Diversity of Soil Mite Functional Groups Respond to Extensification of Land Management, Potentially Affecting Soil Ecosystem Services. Front. Environ. Sci. 4:15. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2016.00015 Biomass and Diversity of Soil Mite Functional Groups Respond to Extensification of Land Management, P...

Introduction Unprecedented population growth accompanied equally unprecedented land use and land cover changes in Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century, affecting the food security of thousands of agriculturally based communities. The more than doubling of the population of Latin America was accompanied by rural migration to urban areas and extensification, or expansion,...

This paper presents some preliminary results from a research on spatial multi-criteria evaluation of land suitability for intensification or extensification in irrigated cropland at a catchment scale in Australia. The project was conducted using the fuzzy linguistic ordered weighted averaging (FLOWA) approach which integrates AHP and fuzzy linguistic OWA operators in ArcGIS 9.2 environment. Sev...

Comprehensive information on the spatial resource use of honey bees is rare, but highly relevant to assess the consequences of habitat loss and fragmentation, agricultural intensification or extensification on colony fitness, pesticide exposure risks and pollination functions.

This research is to determine the effect of tax extensification on income receipts at one Tax Offices in Bandung. method uses quantitative methods with descriptive and verification approaches. First, obtain questionnaire results from respondents, then process them through SPSS 20 be tested, present output results. After conducting analysis discussion, authors conclude that positively influences...

Eradicating extreme poverty is one of the UN's primary sustainable development goals (SDG). Arable land related to eradicating (SDG1) and hunger (SDG2). However, linkage between arable use reduction ambiguous has seldom been investigated globally. Six indicators agricultural inputs, crop intensification extensification were used explore relationship poverty. Non-parametric machine learning meth...

This paper presents an in-depth investigation of the livelihood strategies of Fulani pastoralists in north central Nigeria. Results show a diversified crop-livestock system aimed at spreading risk and reducing cattle offtake, adapted to natural resource competition and insecurity by extensification, with further diversification into off-farm activities to spread risk, increase livelihood securi...

We present a global agricultural greenhouse gas model that assesses emissions from land-use change. In addition to evaluating shifts in and out of crop production, we develop a pasture model to assess extensification and intensification of global livestock production based on herd size and stocking rate. We apply the model to a scenario that introduces a tax on methane emissions from cattle in ...

The Brazilian Amazon is one of the most rapidly developing agricultural frontiers in the world. The authors assess changes in cropland area and the intensification of cropping in the Brazilian agricultural frontier state of Mato Grosso using remote sensing and develop a greenhouse gas emissions budget. The most common type of intensification in this region is a shift from singleto doublecroppin...