Conservation of soil water and restoration of vegetation have long been major subjects of concern on the northern Loess Plateau. Revegetation with species such as Korshinsk peashrub (KOP) and purple alfalfa (ALF), as well as with natural revegetation of fallow areas (NAF) have been used...

The FAO-56 soil water evaporation model is a simple ‘slab’ model that has been found to produce good estimates of evaporation from bare soil over a range of conditions due to its adherence to conservation of mass and energy. The simplicity of the model makes it straightforward to apply and...

Here, we present a mathematical model for simulating both soil water flow and salt transport in two directions (perpendicular and parallel to the drip tubing) under mulched drip irrigation with saline water. We evaluated the effectiveness of this model by comparing the simulated values with...

With the wide adoption of alternate wetting and drying (AWD) irrigation for rice production, the water and nitrogen (N) fate in lowland paddy fields under AWD irrigation was needed to be investigated for assessing the water saving and environmental effects of AWD, compared to traditional...

Grünland spielt eine große Rolle in der Landnutzung und nimmt ein Drittel der landwirtschaftlich genutzten Fläche von Europa ein. Als Konsequenz der Intensivierung landwirtschaftlicher Bewirtschaftungsmaßnahmen der letzten 60 Jahre nahm die Produktivität des Grünlands zu während die...

After the 1992 Common Agricultural Policy Reform, the idea of introducing cross-compliance into the European Union agricultural policy has become more and more popular. Cross-compliance can be defined as making income support conditional on farmers conforming to environmental regulations and...

Many researchers have noted that not only natural ecosystems but also landscapes actively modified by humans (engineered or designed ecosystems) can significantly impact the level of ecosystem goods and service available thereby impacting on human and social welfare. In New Zealand, agriculture...