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The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts
Biodiversity continues to decline in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures such as habitat destruction, exploitation, pollution and introduction of alien species. Existing global databases of species’ threat status ...
A protocol for the conceptualisation of an agro-ecosystem to guide data acquisition and analysis and expert knowledge integration
Innovative agricultural systems need to combine the production of goods with the provision of environmental
services. When agronomists analyse or design multifunctional agro-ecosystems, they thus need
to include knowledge ...
Agricultural Activity concept for simulating strategic agricultural production decisions: Case study of weed resistance to herbicide treatments in South-West France
In an uncertain socio-economic and climatic context, sustainable farming is a major challenge for farmers as well as for their agricultural advisors. It is therefore essential to develop a decision support tool (DST) that ...
Effect of flushing frequency on emitter clogging in microirrigation with effluents
Flushing is an important maintenance task that removes accumulated particles in microirrigation
laterals that can help to reduce clogging problems. The effect of three dripline flushing frequency
treatments (no flushing, ...
Effects of walnut trees on biological nitrogen fixation and yield of intercropped alfalfa in a Mediterranean agroforestry system
tWhile intercropping annual non nitrogen-fixing crops with deciduous hardwood species is now welldocumented, there is a need to investigate if nitrogen-fixing intercrops may succeed in agroforestrysystems. Intercropping ...
Implementing the strategy for the conservation through use of underutilised crops in the Pacific
The Pacific region, home to an estimated 9.5 million people, is geographically, ecologically, sociologically and economically diverse. The region also faces numerous social and physical challenges simply by nature of the ...
Effect of combined deficit irrigation and grass competition at plantation on peach tree root distribution
Agroforestry systems success is predicated on the assumption of root spatial separation between the tree and the crop species. Such a feature, where tree roots prospect subsoil horizons whereas intercrop roots prospect top ...
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Vegetation and Agricultural Crops
There are now over 40 years of research in hyperspectral remote sensing (or imaging spectroscopy) of vegetation and agricultural crops
(Thenkabail et al., 2011a). Even though much of the early research in hyperspectral ...
Representation of decision-making in European agricultural agent-based models
The use of agent-based modelling approaches in ex-post and ex-ante evaluations of agricultural policies has been progressively increasing over the last few years. There are now a sufficient number of models that it is worth ...