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Effect of land use land cover change on soil erosion potential in an agricultural watershed

Journal Articles & Books
Diciembre, 2011

Universal soil loss equation (USLE) was used in conjunction with a geographic information system to determine the influence of land use and land cover change (LUCC) on soil erosion potential of a reservoir catchment during the period 1989 to 2004. Results showed that the mean soil erosion potential of the watershed was increased slightly from 12.11 t ha ⁻ ¹ year ⁻ ¹ in the year 1989 to 13.21 t ha ⁻ ¹ year ⁻ ¹ in the year 2004.

Learning to respect property by refashioning theft into trade

Journal Articles & Books
Diciembre, 2011

Agent-based simulations and human-subject experiments explore the emergence of respect for property in a specialization and exchange economy with costless theft. Software agents, driven by reciprocity and hill-climbing heuristics and parameterized to replicate humans when property is exogenously protected, are employed to predict human behavior when property can be freely appropriated.

Intraspecific competition between shrubs in a semi-arid savanna

Journal Articles & Books
Diciembre, 2011
Sudáfrica
África austral

Tree-on-tree competitive interactions may be more important in affecting the distribution of the tree components of savannas than inter-specific competition with grasses. The presence of intraspecific competition is expected to negatively affect inter-tree spacing, individual size distributions and plant physiology as well as survival/mortality.

Land Use Planning and Social Equity in North Carolina's Compensatory Wetland and Stream Mitigation Programs

Journal Articles & Books
Diciembre, 2011

The U.S. Clean Water Act requires compensatory mitigation for wetland and stream damage through restoration of damaged aquatic ecosystems. We evaluate the North Carolina's Ecosystem Enhancement Program (EEP), a state agency responsible for compensatory mitigation. We compare communities gaining and losing aquatic resources during mitigation, finding new types of socioeconomic disparities that contradict previous studies of mitigation program behavior.

Addition of HPMA affects seed germination, plant growth and properties of heavy saline-alkali soil in northeastern China: comparison with other agents and determination of the mechanism

Journal Articles & Books
Diciembre, 2011
China

China has a large area of inland saline-alkali land, equivalent to 40% of the total cultivated land in the country. The principal features of these lands are high salt content, high pH, and poor soil structure with low water infiltration and poor drainage. These conditions effectively prevent the exploitation of such land for agriculture. In this study, we have compared 17 soil conditioning agents for their abilities to promote seed germination and growth under both laboratory and field conditions.