... investigation, including agro-
landscape ecology, have contributed to a clearer understanding of our natural world,
including a deeper understanding of the relationships and emerging properties ... Landscape ecology: designing sustainable agricultural landscapes, in
Integrating Sustainable Agriculture, Ecology, and Environmental Policy, Olson, R. K.,
Ed., Haworth Press, Binghamton, N...
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... self-supportive economic
systems
• Domination of qualitative changes in the agricultural landscape related to
increased inputs of matter and energy to agroecosystems, beginning with the
industrial-agricultural ... eliminating spontaneous vegetation growing
in uncultivated habitats, in particular trees and shrubs. Structural changes may also
result in a temporary increase in the s...
... example, shelterbelt planting
in a landscape consisting solely of cultivated fields, although increasing evapotrans-
piration rates of the whole area, protects fields against winds, and decreases their
evapotranspiration ... pro-
cesses be sought in an attempt to pinpoint the driving forces responsible for land-
use changes, but environmental processes also should be involved in the ana...
... Shelterbelts of Various
Ages and Adjoining Cultivated Field
Date
Shelterbelts Fields Adjoining Shelterbelts
7-Year-Old 140-Year-Old 7-Year-Old 140-Year-Old
March 12
April 7
May 8
June 5
July ... Shelterbelts of Various
Ages and Adjoining Cultivated Fields
Date
Shelterbelts Fields Adjoining Shelterbelts
7-Year-Old 140-Year-Old 7-Year-Old 140-Year-Old
March 12
April 7
May 8
June 5
July ... mg...
... forest buffer were installed under CS-CRP in
Iowa (USDA-NRCS-PRMS 2001). In contrast, only 158 6 acres were installed under
CS-CRP in the same time period in Georgia (USDA-NRCS-PRMS 2001).
The distribution ... establishing and maintaining riparian buffers in agricultural landscapes
are interested in buffers much wider than the minimum requirement. In general, the
first landowner...
... Orthoptera dominate. Neverthe-
less, in all situations, lower biomass was observed in annual crops in comparison
to grasslands.
Flying insects in the Turew landscape were sampled by catching them in nets
fixed ... Populations in fragmented landscape. In
Connectivity in Landscape Ecology.
K. F. Shreiber (Ed.). Proc. 2nd Int. Assoc. Landscape Ecology: 75–79.
Paolet...
... mobile, moving from the
field margin into the crop over short intervals. Introduced field margin strips were
rapidly colonized, so that overwintering populations were similar to pre-existing
margin habitat ... Affecting Flora Diversity in Field Margin Systems
in European Landscapes
Landscape Scale Studies
Detailed analyses of the margin flora in contrasted landscapes in the three co...
... agro-
politics as in 1998 (Meyer-Aurich 2001). (A) Situation in an arable farm.
(B) Situation in a mixed (animal and crop production) enterprise.
A.
B.
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Change in ... conditions of relevant indi-
cators with reasoning or calculations. The main problems of designing and using
such tools lie in minimizing the amount of necessary input d...
... facilitate the
incorporation of landscape ecology guidelines into agricultural policies. The same
is true for elaboration of operational guidelines for managing biogeochemical bar-
riers, e.g., instructions ... roles in the
process of nitrogen cycling in the landscape. It seems that processes of biological
recycling within the biogeochemical barrier play a substantial role in proce...