Long-term impact of socio-economic changes on agricultural land use in the Polish Carpathians

Groundwater provides over 30% of developed supplies of potable water in Britain. The outcrops of the important aquifers form extensive tracts of agricultural land. Groundwater resources largely originate as rainfall that infiltrates this land. During the 1970s, growing concern about rising, or elevated, groundwater nitrate concentrations, in relation to current drinking water standards, stimulated a major national research effort on the extent of diffuse pollution resulting from agricultural land-use practices. The results presented derive from intensive and continuing studies of a number of small groundwater catchments in eastern England. It is in this predominantly arable region that the groundwater nitrate problem is most widespread and severe. The distribution of nitrate in the unsaturated and saturated zones of the aquifers concerned is summarized. These data have important implications for the water-supply industry, but their interpretation is discussed primarily in relation to what can be deduced about both the recent and long-term histories of leaching from the more permeable agricultural soils.

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Long-term effects of inundation dynamics and agricultural land-use on the distribution of soil macrofauna in fluvisols

Biology and Fertility of Soils ◽

10.1007/bf00336592 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 130-136 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Christoph Emmerling

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Agricultural Land Use ◽

Long Term Effects ◽

Soil Macrofauna

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Long-Term Temporal Trends in Agri-Environment and Agricultural Land Use in Ontario, Canada: Transformation, Transition and Significance

Journal of Geography and Geology ◽

10.5539/jgg.v7n2p32 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Paul G. R. Smith

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Temporal Trends ◽

Agricultural Land Use

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A Visual Typology of Abandonment in Rural America: From End-of-Life to Treading Water, Recycling, Renaissance, and Revival

Land ◽

10.3390/land9030094 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 94

Author(s):

Jason Holcomb ◽

Paul Frederic ◽

Stanley Brunn

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Population Change ◽

Land Use Changes ◽

Recent Change ◽

Rural Landscape ◽

Agricultural Land Use ◽

Built Environments ◽

Rural America ◽

Economic Changes

The contemporary American rural landscape reflects a mix of ongoing economic changes in agricultural land use, population change, and built environments. The mix depends on past and recent change which represent landscapes of memory and silence to those experiencing economic and demographic renaissance. We develop a typology of five stages that reflect the contemporary rural scene and conduct field transects in Northwest Iowa and Central Maine. Features of the dynamics in rural America are evident in photographs of residences, land use changes, and commercial structure. The study calls for additional studies on rural settlement populations, economies, and society in different environmental settings.

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Nivní malakofauna Ploučnice (Severní Čechy) [The floodplain mollusc fauna of the Ploučnice River (North Bohemia)]

Malacologica Bohemoslovaca ◽

10.5817/mab2013-12-40 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

pp. 40-47

Author(s):

Jitka Horáčková ◽

Lucie Juřičková

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Agricultural Land Use ◽

Forest Species ◽

Forest Sites ◽

River Elbe ◽

Mollusc Species ◽

The Common ◽

Near Threatened

This paper presents a research of the floodplain mollusc communities of the Ploučnice River (Elbe tributary, North Bohemia, Czech Republic). Altogether, 66 mollusc species (65 species of gastropods, one species of bivalve) were recorded in the 35 floodplain forest sites during the research between 2007 and 2011, representing 27% of the total Czech malacofauna. More than a half of all species represents the common forest species (52% of all recorded species) with some rare woodland species as Aegopinella nitidula, Daudebardia rufa, Macrogastra ventricosa, Oxychilus depressus, O. glaber and two endangered species Clausilia bidentata and Daudebardia brevipes. Rare wetland species protected by the NATURA system Vertigo angustior and vulnerable V. antivertigo were also found. The occurrence of these rare species (two of them endangered, three vulnerable, and 11 near threatened) makes the Ploučnice river alluvium as an important mollusc refugium of prime conservation importance in this fragmented Czech landscape of long-term agricultural land use.

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