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Alan Ferreira Leite de Lima, Milton César Costa Campos, Joalison de Brito Silva, Witória de Oliveira Araújo, Bruno Campos Mantovanelli, Fernando Gomes de Souza, Raphael Moreira Beirigo, Douglas Marcelo Pinheiro da Silva, Rodrigo Santana Macedo and Flávio Pereira de Oliveira
The processes of occupation and exploitation in the Amazon have been increasing, and as a consequence, forest areas are being replaced by agroecosystems. As a consequence of this change, changes have been occurring in the soil attributes, and consequentl...
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Qian Shi, Wayne R. Simpson, Yuling Li, Chengti Xu, Kejia De and Xiuzhang Li
Elymus dahucirus is an essential plant for ecological restoration in fragile ecological areas and mining area restoration. As lawn grass, it can quickly cover soil and prevent soil erosion, so it is commonly used as a pioneer grass for lawn greening and ...
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Gelton Fernando de Morais, Jenyffer da Silva Gomes Santos, Daniela Han, Luiz Octávio Ramos Filho, Marcelo Gomes Barroca Xavier, Leonardo Schimidt, Hugo Thiago de Souza, Fernanda Ticianelli de Castro, Vanilde Ferreira de Souza-Esquerdo and Daniel Albiero
The current scenario of Agroforestry Systems (AFS) worldwide lacks specific machinery, resulting in practically all operations being carried out manually. This leads to a significant physical effort for small-scale farmers and limits the implementation o...
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Piotr Golinski, Patrycja Sobolewska, Barbara Stefanska and Barbara Golinska
Maximizing annual pasture consumption without negatively impacting individual cow performance is of great importance in grass-based dairy and beef systems due to pasture being the most cost-effective nutrient source. However, the disadvantages of convent...
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Jie Xu, Meng Mu, Yunbing Liu, Zheng Zhou, Haihua Zhuo, Guangsheng Qiu, Jie Chen, Mingjun Lei, Xiaolong Huang, Yichi Zhang and Zheng Ren
Assessing Land Use and Land Cover Change (LULCC) related with aquaculture areas is vital for evaluating the impacts of aquaculture ponds on the environment and developing a sustainable aquaculture production system. Most studies analyze changes in aquacu...
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Francisco R. da S. Pereira, Aliny A. Dos Reis, Rodrigo G. Freitas, Stanley R. de M. Oliveira, Lucas R. do Amaral, Gleyce K. D. A. Figueiredo, João F. G. Antunes, Rubens A. C. Lamparelli, Edemar Moro and Paulo S. G. Magalhães
The recent advances in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based remote sensing systems have broadened the remote sensing applications for agriculture. Despite the great possibilities of using UAVs to monitor agricultural fields, specific problems related to m...
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Boris Chubarenko, Dmitry Domnin, Franz-Georg Simon, Philipp Scholz, Vladimir Leitsin, Aleksander Tovpinets, Konstantin Karmanov and Elena Esiukova
The most massive design on the Baltic shore used geosynthetic materials, the landslide protection construction in Svetlogorsk (1300 m long, 90,000 m2 area, South-Eastern Baltic, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russian Federation) comprises the geotextile and the ero...
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Polina Lemenkova and Olivier Debeir
This paper addresses the issue of the satellite image processing using GRASS GIS in the mangrove forests of the Niger River Delta, southern Nigeria. The estuary of the Niger River Delta in the Gulf of Guinea is an essential hotspot of biodiversity on the...
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Simone Perna, Zainab Ali AL-Qallaf and Qaisar Mahmood
Modern urban societies generate tremendous amounts of hazardous wastes, including toxic organics and metals. Toxic metals harm plants and pose a risk to human health; examples of them are copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), palladium (Pb), and cadmium (Cd). Wetland ...
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Tiffany A. Aldworth, Michele L. W. Toucher, Alistair D. Clulow and Anthony M. Swemmer
Over the past century, increases in indigenous woody plant species, also known as woody encroachment (WE), has occurred in grasslands and savannas across the globe. While the impact on grassland and savanna composition and productivity has been well stud...
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