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Prairies --- Sown pastures --- Oversowing --- Sowing --- France

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Wild crop relatives are now playing a significant part in the elucidation and improvement of the genomes of their cultivated counterparts. This work includes comprehensive examinations of the status, origin, distribution, morphology, cytology, genetic diversity and available genetic and genomic resources of numerous wild crop relatives, as well as of their evolution and phylogenetic relationship. Further topics include their role as model plants, genetic erosion and conservation efforts, and their domestication for the purposes of bioenergy, phytomedicines, nutraceuticals and phytoremediation. Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources comprises 10 volumes on Cereals, Millets and Grasses, Oilseeds, Legume Crops and Forages, Vegetables, Temperate Fruits, Tropical and Subtropical Fruits, Industrial Crops, Plantation and Ornamental Crops, and Forest Trees. It contains 125 chapters written by nearly 400 well-known authors from about 40 countries.

Crops -- Germplasm resources. --- Oilseed plants -- Breeding. --- Oilseed plants -- Genetics. --- Agriculture --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Agriculture - General --- Plant Sciences --- Millets. --- Grasses. --- Plant genomes. --- Plant genome --- Agrostology --- Life sciences. --- Agriculture. --- Biodiversity. --- Plant genetics. --- Plant breeding. --- Life Sciences. --- Plant Breeding/Biotechnology. --- Plant Genetics & Genomics. --- Genomes --- Graminaceae --- Gramineae --- Grass family (Plants) --- Herbage --- Poaceae --- Cyperales --- Forage plants --- Grasslands --- Hay --- Lawns --- Meadows --- Pastures --- Millet --- Grasses

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Part autobiography, part philosophical rumination, this evocative conservation odyssey explores the deep affinities between humans and our original habitat: grasslands. In a richly drawn, anecdotally driven narrative, Joe C. Truett, a grasslands ecologist who writes with a flair for language, traces the evolutionary, historical, and cultural forces that have reshaped North American rangelands over the past two centuries. He introduces an intriguing cast of characters-wildlife and grasslands biologists, archaeologists, ranchers, and petroleum geologists-to illuminate a wide range of related topics: our love affair with turf and how it manifests in lawns and sports, the ecological and economic dimensions of ranching, the glory of cowboy culture, grasslands and restoration ecology, and more. His book ultimately provides the background against which we can envision a new paradigm for restoring rangeland ecosystems-and a new paradigm for envisioning a more sustainable future.

Grasses. --- Grasslands. --- Grassland ecology. --- Agrostology --- Graminaceae --- Gramineae --- Grass family (Plants) --- Herbage --- Poaceae --- Cyperales --- Forage plants --- Grasslands --- Hay --- Lawns --- Meadows --- Pastures --- Grass lands --- Lands, Grass --- Grasses --- Ecology --- anecdotes. --- archaeologists. --- biography autobiography. --- conservation. --- cowboy culture. --- cultural forces. --- environmentalists. --- evolution. --- grass. --- grassland ecologists. --- grasslands biology. --- grasslands. --- historical habitats. --- human habitat. --- lawns. --- modern philosophy. --- nonfiction. --- north america. --- organisms and environments. --- petroleum geologists. --- ranchers. --- rangelands. --- restoration ecology. --- restore ecosystems. --- science majors. --- sustainability. --- textbooks. --- turf. --- wildlife biologists.

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One of the main objectives of nature conservation in Europe is to protect valuable cultural landscapes characterized by a mixture of open habitats and hedges, trees and patchy woodland (semi-open landscapes).The development of these landscapes during the past decades has been characterized by an ongoing intensification of land use on the one hand, and an increasing number of former meadows and pastures becoming fallow as a result of changing economic conditions on the other hand. Since species adapted to open and semi-open landscapes contribute to biodiversity in Europe in a major way, this development is of great concern to nature conservation. In several countries largescale, nature-adapted pastoral systems have been recognized as one solution to this problem. These systems could offer an alternative to industrial livestock raising and keep a high biodiversity on the landscape level. Against the background of livestock diseases such as BSE and Foot and Mouth Disease and the efforts to reform the Common Agricultural Policy in the EU by changing the criteria for agricultural subsidies, these concepts gain particular significance.They could also represent an alternative to the established, costly habitat management tools.

Environment. --- Geoecology/Natural Processes. --- Biogeosciences. --- Geography (general). --- Applied Ecology. --- Landscape Ecology. --- Environmental sciences. --- Life sciences. --- Geography. --- Landscape ecology. --- Ecology. --- Sciences de l'environnement --- Sciences de la vie --- Géographie --- Ecologie du paysage --- Ecologie --- Begrazing : natuurbeheer --- 636.084.252 --- Biodiversity --- Conservation of natural resources --- Farms, Large --- Grazing --- Large farms --- Conservation of resources --- Natural resources --- Natural resources conservation --- Resources conservation, Natural --- Biological diversification --- Biological diversity --- Biotic diversity --- Diversification, Biological --- Diversity, Biological --- Environmental aspects --- Conservation --- Agricultural systems --- Animal feeding --- Range management --- Pastures --- Rangelands --- Farms, Size of --- Environmental protection --- Natural resources conservation areas --- Biology --- Biocomplexity --- Ecological heterogeneity --- Numbers of species

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The climate change (CC) caused by increase in atmospheric concentration of CO2 and other Greenhouse Gases (GHGs), can be addressed through adaptation and mitigation strategies. Adaptation consists of strategies which minimize vulnerability to CC. The objective is to increase resilience of the ecosystems and communities through adoption of specific sustainable land management (SLM) techniques that have adaptive benefits. On the other hand, the goal of mitigation strategies is to enhance soil and vegetation (land) sinks for absorbing atmospheric CO2 and to minimize net emissions. In the context of the resource-poor and small landholders of the developing countries, adaptation to CC is essential. Adaptation strategies are needed to enhance the positive and reduce the negative effects of CC. Adaptation is also needed because complete mitigation of CC may never occur. The strategy is to adopt those SLM technologies which have both adaptation and mitigation impacts at multiple scales (household, community, and watershed, national, global). There are four major areas in the tropics and sub-tropics where adoption of SLM technologies can help to both adapt to and mitigate CC: (i) tropical forest ecosystems (TFEs), (ii) tropical savannah and rangeland ecosystems (TSREs), (iii) world cropland soils, and (iv) salinized and degraded/desertified lands. Nonetheless, adoption of SLM technologies in the temperate regions (North America, Europe, Australia, Japan) is also important to adapting to CC. However, this report focuses on SLM options for developing countries of the tropics and sub-tropics.

Adaptation to Climate Change --- Aerosols --- Afforestation --- Agriculture --- Air Quality --- Biodiversity --- Carbon Dioxide --- Carbon Sequestration --- Climate Change --- Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases --- Coal --- Common Property Resource Development --- Conservation --- Crop Yields --- Crops --- Crops & Crop Management Systems --- Deforestation --- Desertification --- Drainage --- Dry Seasons --- Emissions --- Energy Production --- Environment --- Erosion --- Ethanol --- Farming --- Fertilizer --- Floods --- Food Production --- Food Security --- Forests --- Global Warming --- Grasslands --- Greenhouse Gases --- Land Management --- Landfills --- Maize --- Mangroves --- National Parks --- Natural Resources --- Oil Palm --- Pastures --- Pesticides --- Pine Plantations --- Precipitation --- Rainfall --- Recycling --- Rice --- Runoff --- Rural Development --- Soil Carbon --- Soil Erosion --- Soybeans --- Storms --- Sustainable Land Management --- Temperature --- Tree Crops --- Trees --- Water Harvesting --- Water Resources --- Weeds --- Wetlands --- Wheat