The climate of the fen lands of Charente and Poitou in France is characterized by chronical spells of drought in the summer. The farmers however know how to make use of the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of the water resources of their environment, due to its hydromorphology, which creates a phenological time lag and spreads forage production (within and among fields, and within the forage systems). The expectations of the farmers regarding the management of water in the fens are confronted with those of other users (cereal growers, hunters, environmentalists), that are described.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2007France
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2007Latvia
The object of the study reflected in the paper is the market sector of agricultural lands in Latvia. The goal set out in this scientific paper is to explore the development trends current in the target sector of the market and identify problems and barriers to successful progress common to the entire real estate market in this country.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2007Latvia
The ongoing processes in agriculture, and the national economy in general, as well as continuous targeted reconstruction of the European Union Common Agricultural and Rural Development Policy, and other processes of globalisation and international integration, steadily and directly resound to Latvia, and create new objectives related to the use of land. The agreement on rural development adopted during the European Union Salzburg Conference has also established or determined new functions for the use of land.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2007Spain
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2007Indonesia, Australia, United States of America, Germany, Europe
Fires have attracted interest and generated alarm since the early 1980s. This concern has been particularly evident in tropical forests of Southeast Asia and the Amazon, but disastrous fires in recent summers in Australia, Europe, and the United States have drawn worldwide attention.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2007Spain, Northern America
Wolf Canis lupus dispersal, social structure and mortality have been extensively studied in natural and semi-natural areas of North America and northern Europe but have never been assessed in agricultural areas. From 1997 to 2004, 14 wolves (11 in a wolf-saturated area and three in a low-density area) were radio-collared with long-lasting transmitters in a Spanish agricultural area containing a high-human-population density, a dense network of roads and a shortage of wild ungulates. The wolves mainly feed on an overabundance of livestock carrion.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2007Ireland
The aim of this study was to assess spider diversity among habitats that are typically used for afforestation in Ireland, and to identify habitat parameters which could potentially be used as indicators of their biodiversity value. Ground-dwelling spiders were surveyed in 24 sites across Ireland, with eight sites of each of the following habitat types: improved grassland, wet grassland and peatland.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2007Portugal
A monitoring program of pesticides was implemented in the "ZV1" vulnerable zone (Directive 91/676/EEC) in Portugal, in order to assess the impact of intensive horticulture practices on groundwater contamination. The monitoring network comprised 23 sampling points sampled every 3 months during a 2-year period.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2007Hungary, Germany, Austria
Combined elaboration of the first and second parts of papers prepared for presentation at the IAMO FORUM 2007 Halle, Germany 24-29 June 2007 and the IAAE-EAAE 104th seminar Budapest, Hungary 6-8 September 2007.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2007Denmark
This article presents an investigation of relationships between organic farming and landscape composition in Denmark. Landscape composition was analysed in terms of density of uncultivated landscape elements (I), number of land uses per hectare (II), diversity of land use (III) and mean field size (IV). Two analytical approaches were used. The first was based on an examination of the national agricultural registers for 1998, 2001 and 2004.
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