... potential functions high spatial and temporal resolution satellite imagery offers. They should, in the long term, lead to improved management of water and plant resources in agricultural areas.
... ' forelimbs are thicker and stronger than those of their female counterparts, more of the intersex frogs only found in agricultural areas had thin, weak forearms. Also, intersexes had fewer "nuptial ...
... 24 well networks across the United States in predominantly agricultural areas. A well network is a set of about 30 randomly-selected wells designed to examine ground-water ...
... with control pairs by age, sex and county of residence. Previous studies in agricultural areas of the country have suggested a relationship between pesticides and childhood cancers, but researchers ...
... in the province of Córdoba about the importance that society places on these functions in agricultural areas.
The scientists evaluated the socioeconomic functions (olive oil production and retention ...
Spanish scientists have developed a model to identify the agricultural areas with the greatest potential for restoring the habitat of the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus), which is at risk of extinction. ...
... historical land-use data, satellite imaging, and ecosystem models. Agricultural areas that have been converted to urban areas or have reverted to forests were not included in the assessment. The ...
... in forests already exploited for timber.
Although other threats to orangutan survival exist, such as hunting in agricultural areas where human-orangutan conflicts exist, the biggest by far is forest ...
... western United States. Water resources for the area are reliant on snow acting as a natural reservoir ... increasing demand for water in large urban and agricultural areas during the hottest summer months ...
... ,000 square kilometres of viable rain-fed agricultural land would be lost; a longer dry ... per cent increase in rainfall in such an important agricultural area is a much more hopeful scenario than a 15 ...
... They mostly affect people living either in shantytowns, indigenous communities or poor rural and agricultural areas," said one of the authors of the analysis Dr. Mirta Roses, Director of Pan American ...
... who led the study.
"Our projections showed all of the species studied spreading into agricultural areas where they currently are not endemic," said Diffenbaugh, who is interim director of the Purdue ...
... policy between traditional Dutch landscapes which are used for recreation in the Randstad region, and other agricultural areas in the rest of the Netherlands.
Long-term planning
Slow planning ...
... like the clay-colored thrush spread seeds throughout coffee farms.
A concern in agricultural areas is that increasingly fragmented landscapes isolate native plant populations, eventually leading to ...
... in the Iowa, Des Moines and Minnesota Rivers, all of which fall in heavily tilled agricultural areas.
In areas where farming is scarce or absent, however, the authors found no perceptible change in ...
