scholarly journals Synchronizing conservation to seasonal wetland hydrology and waterbird migration in semi‐arid landscapes

Ecosphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Patrick Donnelly ◽  
David E. Naugle ◽  
Daniel P. Collins ◽  
Bruce D. Dugger ◽  
Brady W. Allred ◽  
...  
2007 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 400-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.A. Martínez ◽  
I. Zuberogoitia ◽  
J.E. Martínez ◽  
J. Zabala ◽  
J.F. Calvo
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Author(s):  
Pamela Ochungo ◽  
Ruan Veldtman ◽  
Rahab Kinyanjui ◽  
Elfatih M. Abdel-Rahman ◽  
Eliud Muli ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Tatiana A. Asvarova ◽  
Gasan N. Gasanov ◽  
Kabirat B. Gimbatova ◽  
Kamil M. Hajiev ◽  
Rashid R. Bashirov ◽  
...  

The results of research on the current state of the nitrogen fund (reserve regime) the Kizlyar pastures. It was found that the total nitrogen ranges from 0.15-0.2 %, nitrogen easily hydrolyzed from 2.4-5.3 mg/100g in light-chestnut, meadow-chestnut soils and saline typical, and has a medium and low degree of security. The humus horizon is more enriched with nitrogen on soils of meadow-chestnut and light-chestnut compared to typical saline. N and C reserves in the soil in spring are 5.0 and 13.4 t/ha, respectively, and in autumn N and C reserves are 1.5 times lower, due to decrease the number of species and projected coverage up to 40-50% of phytocenoses in autumn, and also depends on the climatic conditions of the annual seasonality. In the control area with intensive grazing, nitrogen and carbon reserves in the soil are 1.6-1.8 times lower.


Geoderma ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 239-240 ◽  
pp. 68-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colby W. Brungard ◽  
Janis L. Boettinger ◽  
Michael C. Duniway ◽  
Skye A. Wills ◽  
Thomas C. Edwards

1994 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 209 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Ludwig ◽  
David J. Tongway ◽  
Stephen G. Marsden

As in arid lands of the world, many semi-arid landscapes in Australia have plant and animal growth and reproduction, hence survival, severely limited by available water. For example, Acacia anuera (mulga) grove-intergrove landscapes are source-sink systems where water flows from low ridges and stony slopes (inter-groves) into flat areas (groves). Water can be lost from these systems, to lakes and rivers. This occurs if the water retention (filtering and storage) capacity of the sinks is too low (perhaps due to landscape degradation) or if the total area of sink is too small. A flow-filter landscape model was developed to determine the area of sink (relative to the total area) that will maximize resource (water) conservation and plant production under conditions of low rainfall. The model was also used to examine the effect of having landscape resource sinks with low and high filtering capacities. Simulation results indicate that when rainfall is low (160 mm) the area of sink needed to conserve all available water within the landscape was 40 per cent of the total landscape area when sinks had high resource-filtering capacities; this area increased to 60 per cent when sinks had a low filtering capacity as the case with landscape degradation. The flow-filter landscape model can provide land managers with guidelines on rehabilitating degraded landscapes by reconstruction of sink areas. To conserve the limited amounts of rainfall within a semi-arid landscape a minimal area of sink has to be reconstructed; the flow-filter model estimates this minimal area, thus reducing rehabilitation costs.


2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 1032-1044 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Marchamalo ◽  
Janet M. Hooke ◽  
Peter J. Sandercock

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