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Sathishkumar Samiappan, Lee Hathcock, Gray Turnage, Cary McCraine, Jonathan Pitchford and Robert Moorhead
Wildfires can be beneficial for native vegetation. However, wildfires can impact property values, human safety, and ecosystem function. Resource managers require safe, easy to use, timely, and cost-effective methods for quantifying wildfire damage and re...
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Ashley Covert
Following the severe wildfire season of 2007 in southeastern British Columbia, straw mulching was used to stabilize soil on burned hillslopes and to reduce the risk of debris flows and flooding after the fires. The effects of the straw mulch on vegetatio...
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Zhenwang Li, Quanjun Jiao, Liangyun Liu, Huan Tang and Tong Liu
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Hui Peng, Yangwen Jia, Christina Tague and Peter Slaughter
Many soil and water conservation (SWC) measures have been applied in the Jinghe River Basin to decrease soil erosion and restore degraded vegetation cover. Analysis of historical streamflow records suggests that SWC measures may have led to declines in s...
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Rosa-Amelia Pedraza,Guadalupe Williams-Linera,Teresa Nicolás-Silva
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Aim of the study: To evaluate how middle-aged active restoration plantations of native tree species contribute to the recovery of the tropical cloud forest in terms of vegetation structure, tree richness, species composition, and to shade-tolerance and s...
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Zhilong Wu, Chengjun Zhou, Xinnian Zhou, Xisheng Hu and Jianbang Gan
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Kristen Shapiro, Shruti Khanna and Susan L. Ustin
April 20, 2010 marked the start of the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the largest marine oil spill in US history, which contaminated coastal wetland ecosystems across the northern Gulf of Mexico. We used hyperspectral data from 2010 and 2...
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Alexey R. Desyatkin, Shinya Iwasaki, Roman V. Desyatkin and Ryusuke Hatano
Central Yakutia is in one of the most northern agricultural centers of the world. In this territory a notable area of arable land was made by removing the boreal Taiga with the primary purpose of crop cultivation. Such a method of cultivation significant...
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Paul C. Davidson, Theresa B. Kuhlenschmidt, Rabin Bhattarai, Prasanta K. Kalita, Mark S. Kuhlenschmidt
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Soil and vegetation are two critical factors for controlling the overland transport kinetics of pathogens in a natural environment. With livestock operations moving more towards concentrated animal operations, the need to dispose of a very large amount o...
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Paul C. Davidson, Theresa B. Kuhlenschmidt, Rabin Bhattarai, Prasanta K. Kalita and Mark S. Kuhlenschmidt
Soil and vegetation are two critical factors for controlling the overland transport kinetics of pathogens in a natural environment. With livestock operations moving more towards concentrated animal operations, the need to dispose of a very large amount o...
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Robert Petitpas, José Tomás Ibarra, Marcelo Miranda, Cristián Bonacic
Pág. 384 - 395
Changes in landscape pattern were studied in a temperate landscape of the La Araucanía Region, Chile. Using aerial photographs from 1983 and 2007, we created land use/land cover maps. We then quantified the changes in composition and configuration by usi...
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Loraine van den Berg, Klaus Kellner
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The type of restoration application in degraded natural rangelands will depend on the degree of degradation. Degraded areas that are beyond the threshold of natural recovery normally need active restoration interventions. This includes the disturb...
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Fuyu Yang, Jingjing Xu, Xin Zhao, Xuekai Wang and Yi Xiong
The grassland condition in Qinghai Province has changed dramatically after implementation of the Grassland Ecological Compensation Policy (GECP). The changes in grassland Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and those in grassland area and grass...
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Juan M. Soria, Juan Víctor Molner, Rebeca Pérez-González, Bárbara Alvado, Lucía Vera-Herrera and Susana Romo
The Albufera of Valencia, a Mediterranean coastal lagoon, has been in a turbid state since 1974, with only four episodes of temporary water transparency in spring. Despite its average depth of 1 m and oligohaline waters, excessive turbidity, fish grazing...
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Zhengsong Lin, Lu Zhang, Su Tang, Yang Song and Xinyue Ye
Due to the recent excessive pursuit of rapid economic development in China, the cultural heritage resources have been gradually destroyed. This paper proposes cultural recovery and ecological remediation patterns, and adopts virtual reality (VR) technolo...
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Jin-Fu Li, Samkele S. Tfwala and Su-Chin Chen
Understanding the effects of riparian vegetation under sediment-laden flow is becoming crucial due to the increase in frequency of extreme weather events. This study designed three densities and nine random distributions of bent flexible vegetation in fl...
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Shaowei Ning, Hiroshi Ishidaira, Parmeshwar Udmale and Yutaka Ichikawa
This study is designed to demonstrate use of free remote sensing data to analyze response of water resources and grassland vegetation to a climate change induced prolonged drought in a sparsely gauged semi-arid region. Water resource changes over Hulun L...
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Leonardo Cassimiro Barbosa, Bruno Luiz Domingos De Angelis
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This study proposes to recover the Mandacarú Stream, located in the city of Maringá, Paraná State, Brazil by developing a greenway. The stream in question has been extremely degraded, principally by human activity. The proposed methodology begins with pr...
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Shatya Devi Quintero-Gradilla,Angelina Martínez-Yrizar,Felipe García-Oliva,Ramón Cuevas-Guzmán,José Enrique Jardel-Peláez
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Aim of the study: To analyze the recovery pattern of carbon pools in terms of size and the relative contribution of each pool to total ecosystem C along a fire chronosequence of tropical mixed pine-hardwood forest.Area of the study: Las Joyas Research St...
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Rodolfo Picchio, Roberto Mercurio, Rachele Venanzi, Loretta Gratani, Tommaso Giallonardo, Angela Lo Monaco and Anna Rita Frattaroli
Renaturalization treatment in black pine afforestation is an important topic that should be considered. There is a need to favor the evolution of artificial pine forests toward natural forest systems. Overall, this study focused on pine forests, and sugg...
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