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Sustainable practices to limit soil erosion: a review and discussion. How the review was carried out is briefly described. The review looks mainly at the literature published since year 2000, but does not exclude earlier...
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Doing the right thing with water: combining market-based principles with policy intervention for the The increasing importance of sustainability in natural resource management is drawing increasing attention, worldwide, to the role that policies can p...
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The ecology of non-native invasive plant species: are there consistent patterns? Non-native invasive species are defined as those naturalized species that are new to a particular region and produce reproductive offspring at conside...
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New weed threats: extent, origins, and proper management. Weed problems continue to be an obstacle in plant protection and in natural areas, causing high costs of control and asking for adequate prevention me...
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Agricultural systems: sensitivity to climate change. Agriculture is among the sectors most directly exposed to climate variability and change, with consequences for food production and food security. Thi...
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Navigating the Water Framework Directive: implications for agriculture and beyond. The Water Framework Directive (WFD) is a key piece of European environmental legislation introduced in 2000 to deliver on water quality objectives. Th...
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Weed control with methyl bromide alternatives. Methyl bromide (MeBr) has been used for several decades for preplant (PRE) soil fumigation in high-value agricultural and horticultural crops because ...
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Crop diversification through halophyte production on salt-prone land resources. Rapid population growth in the less developed countries of arid and semiarid regions and concomitant decline in productivity of agricultural lands due...
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Modifying forestry and agroforestry to increase water productivity in the semi-arid tropics. The need to increase water productivity is a growing global concern as the World Commission on Water has estimated that demand for water will increase...
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Interactions between fire, climate change and forest biodiversity. The interactions between climate change, fire and forest biodiversity can be characterized as a cascading relationship. Changes in climate directly af...
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