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Rivers --- water management --- Cattle --- Drinkers --- water supply --- Soil management --- Belgium

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Pastures --- Range management --- Cropping systems --- Cropping systems. --- Range management. --- Management --- Management. --- Agricultural systems --- Soil management --- Rangeland management --- Rangelands --- Ecosystem management --- Natural resources --- Ranching --- Grassland farming --- Paddocks (Pastures) --- Pastureland --- Agriculture --- Forage plants --- Grasses --- Grazing --- Meadows

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Land-use change is one of the main drivers of many environmental change processes. It influences the basic resources of land use, including the soil. Its impact on soil often occurs so creepingly that land managers hardly contemplate initiating ameliorative or counterbalance measures. Poor land management has degraded vast amounts of land, reduced our ability to produce enough food, and is a major threat to rural livelihoods in many developing countries. To date, there has been no single unifying volume that addresses the multifaceted impacts of land use on soils. This book has responded to this challenge by bringing together renowned academics and policy experts to analyze the patterns, driving factors and proximate causes, and the socioeconomic impacts of soil degradation. Policy measures to prevent irreversible degradation and rehabilitate degraded soils are also identified.

Land use --- Land use. --- Soil degradation --- Soil degradation. --- Soil management --- Soil management. --- Government policy. --- Management. --- Degradation, Soil --- Land degradation --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Soils --- Soil science --- Agronomy --- Management --- Environmental sciences. --- Soil conservation. --- Environmental management. --- Physical geography. --- Environmental Science and Engineering. --- Environment, general. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Environmental Management. --- Physical Geography. --- Biogeosciences. --- Geography --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Agricultural conservation --- Environmental science --- Science --- Control --- Prevention --- Conservation --- Environment. --- Soil science. --- Geobiology. --- Biology --- Earth sciences --- Biosphere --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Agriculture --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Population biology --- Ecology

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The soil water retention curve, the saturated hydraulic conductivity and the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity function are basic soil hydraulic functions and parameters. Ample apprehension of the soil hydraulic functions and parameters is required for a successful formulation of the principles leading to sustainable soil management, agricultural production and environmental protection. From these, all the other parameters, required in the solution of the practical tasks, are derived. The basic soil hydraulic functions are strongly dependent upon the soil porous system. The development of models is characteristic by the gradual transition from the simplest concepts up to the sophisticated approaches, which should correspond to the visual reality studied by soil micromorphology. 2 Soil Porous System and Soil Micromorphometry 2.1 An Overview on the Quantification of the Soil Porous System Quanti? cation of the soil porous system consists of classi? cation of soil pores, ch- acterization of the soil pores shapes and the estimation of the pore size distribution function. When the hydraulic functions of the soil pores are considered, the following laws of hydrostatics and hydrodynamics are applied as best ? tting to the classi? cation criteria of the size of the pores (Kutilek and Nielsen 1994, p. 20, Kutilek 2004): A. Submicroscopic pores that are so small that they preclude clusters of water molecules from forming ? uid particles or continuous water ? ow paths.

Soil conservation. --- Soil micromorphology. --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Soils --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- Control --- Prevention --- Conservation --- Micropedology --- Soil microscopy --- Soil structure --- Microscopy --- Analysis --- Geosciences. --- Biogeosciences. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Monitoring/Environmental Analysis. --- Geobiology. --- Soil science. --- Environmental monitoring. --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Agriculture --- Earth sciences --- Biology --- Biosphere --- Biomonitoring (Ecology) --- Ecological monitoring --- Environmental quality --- Monitoring, Environmental --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Pollution --- Measurement --- Monitoring

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Post-agricultural studies have been central to the development of both the science of plant ecology and ecology in general. The study of old field succession allows us to observe the development of the structure and function of communities, as well as understand the role of history and initial conditions in that process. Understanding old field succession can help the public address important scientific and social issues, such as deforestation and forest regeneration, forest restoration, sustainability of agriculture, maintenance of biodiversity, and impacts of global climate change on forest dynamics. Post-Agricultural Succession in the Neotropics draws implications from scientific studies for the wise management of old field ecosystems in the neotropics, where conversion of land to cropping systems is the most common kind of disturbance and many landscapes are defined by areas recovering from agriculture. Written for scientists, researchers, professionals, and students of ecology, the book provides a background in old field ecosystems and proposes restoration strategies and a trajectory for future research. Farmers and decision makers can also benefit from new farming methodologies and management strategies that are proposed. About the Author: Dr. Randall W. Myster is a Researcher at the Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies at the University of Puerto Rico.

Forest regeneration --- Ecological succession --- Biotic succession --- Succession, Ecological --- Forest reproduction --- Natural tree regeneration --- Regeneration (Forestry) --- Tree regeneration --- Trees --- Reproduction --- Environmental management. --- Plant Ecology. --- Landscape ecology. --- Applied Ecology. --- Nature Conservation. --- Soil conservation. --- Environmental Management. --- Landscape Ecology. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Soils --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Ecology --- Environmental protection --- Nature conservation --- Botany --- Plants --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Control --- Prevention --- Conservation --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Plant ecology. --- Applied ecology. --- Nature conservation. --- Soil science. --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Agriculture --- Earth sciences --- Floristic ecology