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Experimental Study on Slope Runoff, Erosion and Sediment under Different Vegetation Types
Zhang, Xia; Yu, Guo; Li, Zhan; Li, Peng - In: Water Resources Management 28 (2014) 9, pp. 2415-2433
experiments, we analyzed the characteristics, regulation of, and correlation among the slope rainfall-infiltration-runoff, erosion … stronger runoff and sediment regulation and was influenced less by rainfall intensity than those under other vegetative … conditions. In addition, the efficiency and pattern of the regulation of runoff and sediment varied with vegetation types as did …
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Influences of mulching durations on soil erosion and nutrient losses in a peanut (Arachis hypogaea)-cultivated land
Zhang, H.; Liu, Q.; Yu, X.; Wang, L. - In: Natural Hazards 72 (2014) 2, pp. 1175-1187
increased the mean runoff and sediment yield. With film mulching, the mean runoff and soil losses among M1 and M2 treatments had … significant differences between the mean runoff and soil losses of M0 and M1 treatments. Compared with the M2 treatment, the M0 … treatment had significantly reduced mean runoff and soil losses of all the events. Non-mulching increased the total nitrogen (TN …
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GIS Based Estimation of Sediment Discharge and Areas of Soil Erosion and Deposition for the Torrential Lukovska River Catchment in Serbia
Đukić, Vesna; Radić, Zoran - In: Water Resources Management 28 (2014) 13, pp. 4567-4581
In the present study the SHETRAN river basin modelling system was used in conjunction with Geographic Information System (GIS) to estimate potential erosion and deposition rates within the catchment and the concentrations of sediment in a flow at the catchment outlet on the example of the 114.31...
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Simulation Modeling of Runoff, Groundwater Flow and Sediment Transport into Kastoria Lake, Greece
Hrissanthou, V.; Mylopoulos, N.; Tolikas, D.; Mylopoulos, Y. - In: Water Resources Management 17 (2003) 3, pp. 223-242
around Kastoria Lake, a rainfall-runoff sub-model is used. A quasi-three-dimensional simulation model of the Kastoria basin … rainfall-runoff sub-model is combinedwith a soil erosion sub-model and a sediment transport sub-model for streams. A GIS was …
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Best Management Practices to Enhance Water Quality: Who is Adopting Them?
Ghazalian, Pascal L.; Larue, Bruno; West, Gale E. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 41 (2009) 03
This study investigates the determinants affecting producers’ adoption of some Best Management Practices (BMPs). Priors about the signs of certain variables are explicitly accounted for by testing for inequality restrictions through importance sampling. Education, gender, age, and on-farm...
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Analysis on Characteristics and Functions of the Peasant Workers’ Returning Home for Venturing in Shaanxi Province
Yan, Yu-jie; Wang, Cong-ying - In: Asian Agricultural Research 2 (2010) 10
Features and effects of returned migrant workers’ entrepreneurship in Shaanxi Province are analyzed. Returned migrant workers’ entrepreneurship in Shaanxi Province depends on traditional agriculture to develop the quantitative business of planting and breeding, local resources to...
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Economics of soil management in psture systems for sheep enterprises in the Central West Catchment of NSW
Farrell, Terence C. - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 17 (2009)
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Impact of Soil Erosion on Rural Poverty
Lu, Jiangyong; Chen, Gong - In: Asian Agricultural Research 05 (2013) 02
farmland, labor, capital, irrigation, chemical fertilizer and other production factors have a positive effect on agricultural … GDP; soil erosion has a significant negative effect on agricultural production; in western China, the total factor …
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Three Essays on Bio-security
McCarl, Bruce A. (contributor) - 2009
In this dissertation, several essays in the field of bio-security are presented.The estimation of the probability of an FMD outbreak by type and location ofpremises is important for decision making. In Essay I, we estimate and predict theprobability/risk of an FMD outbreak spreading to the...
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Identification of inconsistent variates in factor analysis
Kano, Yutaka; Ihara, Masamori - In: Psychometrika 59 (1994) 1, pp. 5-20
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