Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS) is an incentive-based program established in Canada to pay farmers for their voluntary delivery of ecosystem services (ES). All seven ALUS programs across the country were examined...
The purpose of this study was to identify the drivers of the shift of traditional agro-ecosystems and their implication on catchment resources management of Eastern Arc Catchments of Tanzania. Lower Mngeta and Upper Z...
the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation through the CORIGAP project(Grant no.81016734).
Rodents and weeds are important pests to rice crops in Southeast Asia.The interaction between these 2 major pests is poorly documented.In temperate cereal systems,seeds of grass weeds can be an important food source f...
Agriculture under changing climate scenario is facing major challenges of water scarcity and resource imbalances.Crop water productivity(WP)may act as an indicator of crop responses to water limitation.Organic amendme...
National Natural Science Foundation of China, No.41271550; Humanities and Social Sciences Project of Ministry of Education in the West and the Frontier Areas, No. 12XJC790003
The excessive expansion of urbanized areas has resulted in haphazard land utili- zation, immoderate consumption of superior agricultural land and water resources, significant fragmentation of agricultural landscape, a...
Currently insect pest management solely depends on chemical pesticide that continuously affects on environment, biodiversity, animal as well as human health. Outbreak of secondary insect pest is also the cost of pesti...
supported by the National Science & Technology Pillar Program during the 12th Five-year Plan Period (No. 2013BAD11B03);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 71573260,71273153,and 71525007);the Basic Scientific Research Fund (No. BSRF201311) for National Nonprofit Institutes from Ministry of Agriculture(MoA),China
Research on carbon cycling has attracted attention from both scientists and policy-makers. Based on material flow analysis, this study systematically budgets the carbon inputs, outputs and balance from 1980 to 2013 fo...
Tri-trophic interactions between fertilizer applications, cotton aphid (Aphis gossypii Golver) and associated beneficial insects were studied to investigate direct and indirect effects of fertilizers (types and ratios...
Supported by General Project of National Social Science Foundation(15BMZ058)
On the basis of the present research progress of ecological agriculture,we take Minle County and Linze County located in the middle reaches of Heihe River as the typical research units.Based on the rural social and ec...
Heavy metals status of agricultural soils should be monitored in order to prevent soil-plant pollution. This study evaluates the effect of season, agronomic practice and soil mineral composition on the levels of some ...