Agriculture continues to place unwanted pressure on peatland functionality, despite international recognition calling for their conservation and restoration. Rewetting of peatlands is often the first step of re
It is interesting in this context that the Noord-oostpolder is largely used for agriculture, and that activities like ploughing have in the course of decades made disappear almost all original height differences. Particularly the sandy patches can, as a rule, no longer be seen in the agricultura...
Although the non-Azospirillum bacteria are correlated with aquatic environment, most of them actually dwell in the boundaries or mixtures of soil and water, such as water sediment (for example, M. magnetotacticum, M. gryphiswaldense and T. profundimaris) and ditch mud (for example, R. ...
After a section of field is plowed, a ditch called a ‘waist ditch’ (yaogou 腰沟) is dug across the plot, and water is discharged into the field. Once the wheat and barley is harvested, all the ridges and furrows are leveled. The field is flooded and then plowed to plant rice. ...
One-liter subsamples were analyzed for a suite of insecti- cides, fungicides and herbicides by the California Depart- ment of Food and Agriculture Environmental Monitoring Laboratory (CDFA). Liquid chromatography/mass spec- trometry (LC/MS) was used to measure 61 compounds, and gas ...
Our results show that large sedentary populations would have had to manage soils thousands of years prior to the emergence of agriculture in the region or, more likely, that indigenous peoples used their knowledge to identify and preferentially settle areas of exceptionally high fertility before the ...
Van Hal J. Ditch the meat, save the planet: Oxford study touts environmental and health benefits of plant-based foods.Nutrition Insight. December 18, 2024. Available at:https://www.nutritioninsight.com/news/ditch-the-meat-save-the-planet-oxford-study-touts-environmental-and-health-benefits-of-...
(Koop and Leeuwen2017). The water quality of the Yamuna River continues to decline downstream into Haryana and Uttar Pradesh as a result of sewage and wastewater discharge from large urban areas like Panipat (drain no. 2), Sonipat (drain no. 6), and Yamuna Nagar (ditch drain) (Rajan ...
often leading to strong “salt-and-pepper” noise (Flyckt et al., 2022). Thus, a post-processing step of noise removal or ditch object construction is required to generate a clean drainage network. Object-oriented classifiers that utilize both pixel and contextual information (such as size, ...
The field is delimited by a paved trail and a stone wall to the north and by a small drainage ditch to the west, whereas to the Range of values and wet and dry periods For all surveys, the mean (Fig. 3a), median and standard deviation (Fig. 3b) of the 11,700 measurements (θ0...