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Abandonment of agricultural land: an overview of drivers and consequences.
Agricultural activities and their complex effects on nature conservation, and the services that ecosystems deliver to humans are controversial. We pre...
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Accounting for carbon sequestration and its implications for land-use change and forestry projects.
As carbon becomes a valuable commodity traded in markets for greenhouse-gas emissions, there will be incentives to adopt land uses that capture carbon...
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Agroforestry uses of inland salt-affected landscapes.
Salinity-affected landscapes, which now occupy nearly 1 billion ha (about 7% of the world's land area), are of geological or anthropological origin. T...
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Allelopathy for weed management in sustainable agriculture.
The sustainability of agriculture relies on the development of strategies that lower the need for costly external inputs and minimize detrimental effe...
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Amelioration and nutrient management strategies for sodic and alkali soils.
Sodic and alkali soils are characterized by the occurrence of excess sodium (Na+) to levels that can adversely affect soil structure and disturb the...
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Amelioration strategies for salinity-induced land degradation.
Salinization of soils is a major impediment to their optimal utilization in many arid and semi-arid regions throughout the world. In several large ir...
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Applications of acoustics in insect pest management.
Acoustic technology has been applied for many years in studies of insect communication and in the monitoring of calling-insect population levels, geog...
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Appropriate precision agriculture with site-specific cropping system management for marginal and sma
As conceived in the 'West', precision agriculture (PA) may be suitable for capital-intensive, high-technology regions in developed countries, monocult...
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Aromatic plant species in agricultural production systems based on marginal soils.
Globally, agricultural production systems are under greater pressure than they were at any time in human history. Although agriculture is expected to ...
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Assessment and maintenance of soil fertility in temperate organic agriculture.
The maintenance of soil fertility is a key tenet of organic farming and can be broadly defined as the ability of the soil to support the productivit...
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