The share of NPP appropriated by humans (HANPP) through agriculture and forestry bioenergy production and vegetation fires doubled over the course of the past century.
HANPP reveals the percentage of the annual plant-based biomass production that is coopted by humans through land use activities such as agriculture
and precipitation--could affect agriculture in the nation's heartlands. The team built computer simulations based on crop data from the nation's top 10 corn-producing states--Iowa Illinois Nebraska Minnesota Indiana Ohio South dakota Wisconsin Missouri
The researchers said agriculture costs the water supply in two ways: through the drawdown of groundwater from irrigation and through loss to the atmosphere via evapotranspiration (ET) by which water moves through plants
and may provide further insights into odor-guided behavior of insects in nature and agriculture.
This timescale suggests that the conversion of tropical forests for agriculture which began back in the 1800's
Cytokinins are used in agriculture for multiple purposes from crops to golf course greens. In their PNAS paper the researchers identify KMDS as a new regulator for cytokinin signaling.
and consolidation of its decline coincided with the deforestation caused by the intensification of agriculture
and Agriculture serendipitously saw the image and recognized the insect as unusual. When Guek was able to collect a specimen it was sent to Stephen Brooks at London's Natural history Museum who confirmed its new species status. The three joined forces
#Agriculture in China predates domesticated rice: Discovery of ancient diet shatters conventional ideas of how agriculture emergedarchaeologists have made a discovery in southern subtropical China
which could revolutionise thinking about how ancient humans lived in the region. They have uncovered evidence for the first time that people living in Xincun 5000 years ago may have practised agriculture--before the arrival of domesticated rice in the region.
Current archaeological thinking is that it was the advent of rice cultivation along the Lower Yangtze river that marked the beginning of agriculture in southern China.
Poor organic preservation in the study region as in many others means that traditional archaeobotany techniques are not possible.
Now thanks to a new method of analysis on ancient grinding stones the archaeologists have uncovered evidence that agriculture could predate the advent of rice in the region.
If they were planted at Xincun this implies that'agriculture'did not arrive here with the arrival of domesticated rice as archaeologists currently think
In Switzerland the Federal office for Agriculture (FOAG) has followed suit suspending the authorizations of three insecticides used on oilseed rape and maize fields.
#No-win situation for agricultural expansion in the Amazonthe large-scale expansion of agriculture in the Amazon through deforestation will be a no-win scenario according to a new study.
or off put but it was a surprise to us that high levels of deforestation could be a no-win scenario--the loss of environmental services provided by the deforestation may not be offset by an increase in agriculture production.
and changes in land cover would drastically affect the local climate possibly to a point where agriculture becomes unviable.
There may be a limit for expansion of agriculture in Amazonia. Below this limit there are not important economic consequences of this expansion..
Beyond this limit the feedbacks that we demonstrated start to introduce significant losses in the agriculture production continued Dr Oliveira.
because agriculture experts have been looking to the otherwise resilient cassava plant --which is used also to produce starch flour biofuel
if successful the project could lead to practical applications in agriculture. The implications could be said tremendous he.
Wood frogs living close to agricultural land were more likely to have been exposed to pesticides for many generations compared to those living far from agriculture;
Wood frogs living close to agricultural land were more likely to have been exposed to pesticides for many generations compared to those living far from agriculture.
The article published today in Evolutionary Applications is titled Proximity to agriculture is correlated with pesticide tolerance:
That's the conclusion of 12 leading plant biologists from around the world whose laboratories recently discovered important properties of plant transport proteins that collectively could have a profound impact on global agriculture.
--but that by disseminating these findings widely the biologists hoped to educate policy makers and speed the eventual application of their discoveries to global agriculture.
Simply increasing inorganic fertilizer use and water supply or applying organic farming systems to agriculture will be unable to satisfy the joint requirements of increased yield and environmental sustainability the scientists added.
but that otherwise could be ideal for agriculture. When soils are acidic aluminum ions are freed in the soil resulting in toxicity to the plant the scientists write.
Two other major goals in agriculture are increasing the carbohydrate content and pest-resistance of crops.
'In his inaugural address entitled'Crop ecosystems as diverse playing fields'Professor Niels Anten discusses the parallel development of two fields the ecology of natural systems such as forests and the ecology of agriculture.
#Deep, permeable soils buffer impacts of crop fertilizer on Amazon streamsthe often damaging impacts of intensive agriculture on nearby streams rivers
Neill's study looked specifically at the impacts of soybean agriculture on water quality and quantity at Tanguro Ranch a nearly 200000-acre farm similar in climate
despite intensive agriculture at Tanguro Ranch the streams do not appear to be receiving a significant amount of either nitrogen
#Strengthening legumes to tackle fertilizer pollutionthe overuse of nitrogen fertilizers in agriculture can wreak havoc on waterways health and the environment.
#Precision agriculture improves farming efficiency, has important implications on food securityprecision agriculture promises to make farming more efficient
and should have an important impact on the serious issue of food security according to a new study published in Significance the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association.
Spatial variation is at the core of precision agriculture and geostatistics..All aspects of the environment-soil rocks weather vegetation water etc.
Precision agriculture will reduce the amount of fertilizers and pesticides used by applying inputs only where they are needed and in appropriate quantities.
Precision agriculture will aid efforts to improve food security and also crop quality Professor Oliver notes in the article.
It will also have a major effect on reducing adverse effects on the environment from agriculture.
That picture could then help researchers determine how various land uses as well as management practices such as no-till agriculture
However the researchers highlight how those higher yields and incomes will also increase financial incentives for farmers to clear more forest for agriculture.
and not expand agriculture would need to escalate as well. They expect farmers who were once willing to protect forests for a comparative pittance could in a matter of years demand more for their conservation actions Small-scale farmers might also be displaced by larger commercial ventures as farming becomes more lucrative
The researchers warn that conservation expenditure will have to dramatically increase to compete with future agriculture.
and first author of the study Our research suggests that as agriculture becomes more intensive the small payments successful at incentivising forest conservation today could increase to well beyond what is considered economically efficient or even feasible.
#For development in Brazil, two crops are better than oneit's not just about agriculture. Growing two crops a year in the same field improves schools helps advance public sanitation raises median income
On the other hand if all areas double cropped monthly income would increase to 459 reals Double cropping increases median incomes in an entire county not just among people working in agriculture Vanwey said.
So I'm arguing that it's going to have these effects on the entire economy by providing employment that's related to the agriculture.
This study on avian influenza policies also found that agriculture sectoral policy should be coherent with public health sectoral policy
Y. H. Percival Zhang an associate professor of biological systems engineering in the College of Agriculture
Additional resources were contributed by the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life sciences'Biodesign and Bioprocessing Research center the Shell Gamechanger Program and the U s. Department of energy Bioenergy Science Center along with the Division of Chemical sciences
However the researchers highlight how those higher yields and incomes will also increase financial incentives for farmers to clear more forest for agriculture.
and not expand agriculture would need to escalate as well. They expect farmers who were once willing to protect forests for a comparative pittance could in a matter of years demand more for their conservation actions.
The researchers warn that conservation expenditure will have to dramatically increase to compete with future agriculture.
and first author of the study#oeour research suggests that as agriculture becomes more intensive the small payments successful at incentivising forest conservation today could increase to well beyond what is considered economically efficient or even feasible.
Biofilms are an increasing problem in food processing plants serving as a potential source of contamination said Monica Ponder an assistant professor of Food Science and Technology in the College of Agriculture and Life sciences.
For example Wadimena contributors refined the treatment of wastewater to ensure that greywater--non-sewage waste--could safely be used for certain types of agriculture.
The study showed that the biggest mitigation potential lies in cutting emissions from agriculture such as livestock production as well as in managing forests effectively to increase their role as a carbon sink.
An expert on that problem#the infamous Gulf of mexico#oedead Zone##today called for greater awareness of the connections between rainfall and agriculture in the Midwest and the increasingly severe water quality problems in the gulf.
#oeshortages in availability of water suitable for drinking agriculture and industry are the common denominator in some of the great global challenges facing society in the 21st century#Shakhashiri said.#
which is stressed increasingly by multiple demands for water supply agriculture industry recreation and ecosystem needs. Changes in water supply and demands for water are driven by population growth climate
He is dean of the College of Agriculture at Kansas State university. That waste can occur due to spoilage from improper storage of grain during transportation or from pests.
Both total Brazilian agriculture production and export shares have generally been increasing while deforestation rates have seen a dramatic decrease over recent years.
With increasing global pressure on Brazilian agriculture to increase production and changes to the Brazilian Forest Code it seems unlikely that Brazilian deforestation rates will continue to decrease at the current rate without strengthening measures to protect the forests said co-author Robbie Andrew.
The glaciers being imaged by UAVSAR provide freshwater for the residents of Santiago and water for regional agriculture.
The project is funded by the U s. Department of agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative and is led by entomologist Diane Ullman of the University of California Davis
Our new process could help end our dependence on fossil fuels said Y. H. Percival Zhang an associate professor of biological systems engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life sciences and the College of Engineering.
Additional resources were contributed by the Shell Gamechanger Program the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life sciences'Biodesign and Bioprocessing Research center and the U s. Department of energy Bioenergy Science Center along with the Division of Chemical sciences
The work was supported by the U s. Forest Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture Story Source:
and the environment explained Yves Carriã re a professor of entomology in the UA College of Agriculture
Funding for the study was provided the U s. Department of agriculture--National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the National Science Foundation.
#Pesticide combination affects bees ability to learntwo new studies have highlighted a negative impact on bees'ability to learn following exposure to a combination of pesticides commonly used in agriculture.
State departments of Agriculture usually put those lists together. We'd like to see greater representation from other stakeholders such as Departments of Natural resources
what might impact agriculture but horticulturalists are developing new plants for home landscaping that might well be highly invasive.
and slash and burn agriculture have taken their toll on the forests where these tree-dwelling primates live.
A lot has been converted to agriculture. Much of that area has been taken completely out of what has been habitat for them.
Research published in Biomed Central's journal Agriculture & Food security demonstrates that as their crops on higher ground fail due to unreliable rainfall people in countries like Uganda are increasingly relocating to wetland areas.
We found three functional copies that were said identical senior author Leon Kochian director of the U s. Department of agriculture--Agriculture Research Service Plant Soil and Nutrition Laboratory at Cornell.
The work was supported by the Southern Region Small Fruit Consortium North carolina Tobacco Trust fund Commission North carolina Department of Food and Agriculture U s. Department of agriculture and North carolina Blueberry Council.
which are so important to agriculture and forest ecosystems. Scientists identified Geomyces destructans as the cause of WNS in 2012.
Research assistants from Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural resources and the Ministry of Health in Malawi spent time in the homes of the volunteers collecting duplicate samples of what they ate
which is good news for agriculture in the southern U s . and northwestern Mexico-the timing is the problem here said study co-author Richard Seager a climate scientist at Lamont-Doherty.
whether in northwestern Mexico or Arizona where agriculture and rangelands respectively are mostly rain-fed.
and agriculture since bees are essential pollinators for many crops and wild flowering species. If declines are allowed to continue there is a risk to our natural biodiversity and on some crop production.
Barney is an assistant professor of plant pathology physiology and weed science in the College of Agriculture and Life sciences.
Since state departments of agriculture have responsibility for most regulatory bodies occasionally sharing responsibility with environmental agencies fewer plants that invade forests pastureland
As these habitats are lost primarily owing to conversion to agriculture the abundance and diversity of pollinators decline and crops receive fewer visits from wild insects.
Strategies for improving climate balancefossil fuels above all diesel are one of the main sources of CO2 emissions in agriculture.
The study is financed by Germany's Federal Ministry of Food Agriculture and Consumer Protection and by the Federal Program for Organic agriculture and Other Forms of Sustainable agriculture (Bundesprogramm Ãologischer Landbau und andere Formen
One of the persistent questions has been the role of agriculture and particularly corn (maize) in the evolution of complex centralized societies.
Up until now the prevailing theory was that marine resources not agriculture and corn provided the economic engine behind the development of civilization in the Andean region of Peru.
This new body of evidence demonstrates quite clearly that the very earliest emergence of civilization in South america was indeed based on agriculture as in the other great civilizations of Mesopotamia Egypt India
The research ultimately confirms the importance of agriculture in providing a strong economic base for the rise of complex centralized societies in the emergence of the world's civilizations.
while most of our agriculture crops are said annuals Malmstrom. Sometimes when you mix the properties of the two unexpected things can happen.
In agriculture we select more for growth she said. There is a reduced need for the plants to defend themselves
and if there is a way this can be used in agriculture. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Penn State.
Price has been working on various aerial spectroradiometer applications in agriculture. Our goal is to be able to use spectral analysis to achieve a dramatic reduction in the cost of producing a unit gain in yield potential
In general ants play an important role in agriculture around the world with some helping to disperse seeds
A lot of the antibiotic-resistant bacteria originate in animal agriculture where there is overuse misuse and abuse of antibiotics.
and have been regarded previously as marginal to mainstream agriculture. Peach-growing in central Bolivia is a vitally important income-generating strategy even
or landrace diversity and intensified agriculture Zimmerer also addressed important links between migrant communities and smallholder farms.
Maize agriculture for example is both a subsistence crop--ideal for helping to ensure food security which is most important among the rural poor--and a cash crop.
The increased use of pesticides in agriculture puts these species in danger. The author Dr. Somsak Panha from the Animal Systematics Research Unit Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok Thailand comments:
The fact that these potentially dangerous particles are being taken up by such a common crop suggests a need to review what materials are used in agriculture around the world.
The research was supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture the U s. Department of agriculture the National Science Foundation and the Blanton J. Whitmire Endowment at NC State.
and agriculture--mainly rice cultivation--the coastal swamp areas have been transformed into polders (3). To this end dikes have been built reducing the 1km mangrove strip to just a few dozen metres wide.
in order to protect economic activities such as agriculture. However such works are prohibitively expensive. The only means of protection consists of rebuilding the mangroves.
This kind of information is needed in agriculture and forestry to improve the resistance of plants to insect pests he said.
because in contrast to electricity production and aviation emissions from agriculture are covered not by the EU ETS.
and lifestyle should focus on reducing emissions not regulated by the EU ETS such as road transport agriculture
As land use shifted from agriculture toward tourism the local chamber of commerce funded an effort to draw off standing water through drainage ditches to suppress the mosquito population.
How salt stops plant growthuntil now it has not been clear how salt a scourge to agriculture halts the growth of the plant-root system.
According to data from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United nations (FAO) nowadays the largest number of goats can be found in the poorest of countries and especially those
and water resources in impoverished countries where the land and needed water has been grabbed for commercial-scale agriculture.
Food security in the grabbing countries increasingly depends on'grab-land agriculture 'while in the grabbed countries local populations are excluded from the use of large parcels of land.
and savannas--or smallholder agriculture run by local communities to large-scale commercial farming run by foreign corporations.
and enhancing the productivity of smallholder agriculture. There is also the need for institutions that can make sure that locals are involved in decisions about the reallocation of rights on land and water resources.
and analyzes its likely effects on human health water energy transportation agriculture forests ecosystems and biodiversity.
Impacts are already being felt in the forests in agriculture in the Great lakes and in our urban centers said Scavia director of the Graham Sustainability Institute and special counsel to the U-M president on sustainability issues.
and those trends are expected to continue causing erosion declining water quality and negative impacts on transportation agriculture human health and infrastructure according to the report.
In agriculture longer growing seasons and rising carbon dioxide levels are likely to increase the yields of some Midwest crops over the next few decades according to the report though those gains will be increasingly offset by the more frequent occurrence of heat waves droughts and floods.
but animal sleeping sickness has made it very difficult for many people in this region to establish strong agriculture Docampo said.
The United states Department of Agriculture's Agricultural research service funded this work. Other authors on the paper include Diane Mitchell researcher in nutritional sciences at Penn State;
Particularly agriculture is fully conscious of its dependence upon natural production factors such as soil and water and would like to produce healthy products as free as possible of residues states Ralf Schulz.
In addition with these measures agriculture can make a very important positive contribution to the protection of nature
#Genome of diamondback moth provides new clues for sustainable pest managementan international research consortium led by Fujian Agriculture Forestry University (FAFU)
Our results clearly demonstrate that environmental nitrogen fluxes from row-crop agriculture can be reduced greatly after the establishment of perennial biofuel crops said U of I postdoctoral research associate Candice Smith.
Reduced Nitrogen Losses after Conversion of Row Crop Agriculture to Perennial Biofuel Crops was published in an issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality.
and provide water for agriculture. The unintended consequence--stable water levels--allowed Carolina Willow to spread
Looking at the historical development of Eastern forests the results of the change in types of disturbances--both natural and man-caused--are much more significant than any change in climate said Abrams who is the Steimer Professor of Agriculture
Foliar feeding is used in agriculture to rapidly and precisely control the nutrition of plants. This technique has not been tested in the forestry area
of the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science (NILGS) Tsukuba Japan.
In August 2014 the Danish Agriculture & Food Council encouraged cattle farmers to only use cephalosporins where this is the only effective treatment option.
This year's spring pulse held less than 1 percent of the volume of the Colorado's annual spring floods before the construction of ten major dams and diversions to municipalities industry and agriculture.
and Basic Research to Enable Agriculture Development (BREAD) the Howard Buffett Foundation the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the Center for Data analytics at Georgia Tech.
or agriculture in future since the loss of biomass in these areas does not have as much of an effect.
and with water for agriculture becoming increasingly scarce the question of the effect of low water levels on rice growth is becoming more critical.
In a second paper in the same issue Muhammad Ibrahim and colleagues from Pakistanâ##s University college of Agriculture and Government College University as well as the South Koreaâ##s National Academy of Agricultural
Thus its application in agriculture horticulture forestry plants ornamental plants or any other plant with commercial interest would represent a significant environmental and economic saving.
Land use means how people utilize public and private land such as agriculture forestry or conservation land.
and bee researcher Dr Katja Hogendoorn postdoctoral research associate with the University's School of Agriculture Food and Wine.
what's to come for agriculture water supplies and animal behavior among many other areas. Longer or shorter growing seasons influence the type of crops that are planted the pests that are present
#The future of global agriculture may include new land, fewer harvestsclimate change may expand suitable cropland particularly in the Northern high latitudes
and topography determine the suitability of land for agriculture. Climate change may impact global agriculture
but some regions may benefit from it. In a new study researchers focused on the probable impact of climate change on the supply of land suitable for the cultivation of the 16 major food
Both of these studies have shown that modern agriculture can still learn from nature and secure a successful harvest
But with the rise of agriculture and cultivated wheat 10000 years ago the plant's genetic structure changed.
therefore a biological pest control was achieved the use of chemicals ceased and agriculture on the region improved.
and to perform research focused on the generation of biological pesticides which is a very important issue for agriculture due to the increasing restriction on the use of chemical pesticides emphasizes the scientist at INECOL.
The loss of habitat to agriculture is the primary driver of diversity loss globally but we hadn't known until now how agriculture affected diversity in an evolutionary context said study co-lead author Daniel Karp who began working on this project
while he was a doctoral student at Stanford and has continued it as a research fellow at UC Berkeley.
We found that forests outperform agriculture when it comes to supporting a larger range of species that are related more distantly.
But the fact that diversified farms conserve much more phylogenetic diversity than intensive agriculture is encouraging.
It shows how important it is for biodiversity conservation to surround protected areas with productive forms of diversified agriculture
The researchers also outline a theory that human agriculture is simply tipping the scale in favor of species that trace their origin to similar conditions.
Natural savannahs share some of the characteristics of diversified agriculture Frishkoff said. We find some evidence that birds that evolved in those types of habitats such as blackbirds
For the first time scientists have reviewed progress in addressing a broad set of challenges in agriculture medicine and environmental management using evolutionary approaches approaches that consider species'evolutionary histories and the likelihood of rapid evolutionary adaptation to human activities.
#Illegal land clearing for commercial agriculture responsible for half of tropical deforestationa comprehensive new analysis released today says that nearly half (49%)of all recent tropical deforestation is the result of illegal
clearing for commercial agriculture. The study also finds that the majority of this illegal destruction was driven by overseas demand for agricultural commodities including palm oil beef soy and wood products.
In addition to devastating impacts on forest-dependent people and biodiversity the illegal conversion of tropical forests for commercial agriculture is estimated to produce 1. 47 gigatonnes of carbon each year--equivalent to 25%of the EU's annual fossil fuel
An Analysis of the Extent and Nature of Illegality in Forest Conversion for Agriculture 90%of the deforestation in Brazil from 2000 to 2012 was illegal primarily due to the failure to conserve a percentage of natural forests in large-scale cattle
Export Agriculture a Key Driver of Illegal Deforestationaccording to the report the international trade in agricultural commodities (beef leather soy palm oil
or consuming relevant commodities is to be applauded illegalities relating to consumer agriculture and timber plantations can ultimately only be addressed fully by governments
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