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A Preliminary Model of Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill. Suitability for Jordan
Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill. has been propagated for its fruits and young
pads for human consumption, as well as for forage for domestic livestock for
hundreds of years. Recently, it has been suggested that this plant ...
An efficient sampling protocol for sagebrush/grassland monitoring
developed numerous methods and monitoring techniques
that can be used for vegetation sampling (Barbour et al.
1987). The methods used to position samples (transects,
quadrats, lines, and points) vary and can be classed ...
Pastoral Land Use and Grazing Measurement through Remotely Sensed Data
About 60 percent of the world's pasture land (about 2.2 million sq km), just less than half the world's usable surface is covered by grazing systems. These are distributed between arid, semi arid and sub humid, humid, ...
Silvopastoral restoration to enhance ecosystem services and increase farmers' income
Silvopastoral systems (SPS) are deemed as agroecological solutions that hold great potential to
reduce pressure on already degraded forest and rangeland resources while synergistically enhancing
livestock productivity and ...
Pastoral improvement using Hedysarum coronarium L. under semiarid environment conditions of Tunisia
This study was carried out to investigate the effect of scarification and/or reseeding on the vegetation cover and dry matter production of rangelands in Sbaihia, Governorate of Zaghouan, Tunisia during 2017- 2018. A total ...
Improving a Transhumance Livestock System of India with Modern Technologies
Traditional livestock rearing systems in grasslands evolved in response to social, climatic, vegetative and technological conditions that existed scores, hundreds, or in some cases thousands of years ago. Many of these ...
Annual clovers around the world: current status and future prospects
This paper reviews the distribution and importance of annual clover (Trifolium) species for pasture and fodder production systems globally. Of the 158 recorded annual Trifolium species, 65.2% are endemic to the Mediterranean ...
A Digital Geo-referencing System for Monitoring Ground Cover in Drylands
This article talks about the Digital Vegetative Charting Technique and how it can reduce field sampling costs and provide more detailed mapping.
VegMeasure: Image Processing Software for Grassland Vegetation Monitoring
Vegetative inventories, whether they are agronomic, ecologic, range, or forestry, often measure plant cover. Vegetation cover is a fundamental param- eter in many studies of plant ecology. It is used to measure the surface ...
Applications of geo-informatics in cactus pear research and development
Cactus pear (Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill.) has been planted for forage reserves and human consumption in arid and semi-arid regions for centuries for its ability to grow in harsh conditions characterized by high ...