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    The Muencheberg Soil Quality Rating for Assessing the Quality of Global Farmland

    Sustainable use of soils is a vital issue in the 21st century to meet global challenges of food security, demands for energy and water, climate change and biodiversity. Eurasia has reasons to tackle and solve ...

    Lothar Mueller, Uwe Schindler in Novel Measurement and Assessment Tools for… (2014)

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    Nutrient Balances in Agriculture: A Basis for the Efficiency Survey of Agricultural Groundwater Conservation Measures

    In nutrient balances, additions and removals of nutrients are assessed to identify the remaining concentrations of nutrients in soil. Balances can be performed using operational records of nutrients applicatio...

    Frank Eulenstein, Marion Tauschke in Novel Measurement and Assessment Tools for… (2014)

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    Methods of In Situ Groundwater Quality Monitoring: Basis for the Efficiency Survey of Agricultural Groundwater Conservation Measures

    Against the background of the paramount importance of fresh water resources for human well-being in Europe’s industrialised societies, the protection of groundwater bodies is one of the top themes of the envir...

    Ralf Dannowski, Roland Schindler in Novel Measurement and Assessment Tools for… (2014)

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    Multi-Species Grazing on Deer Farms

    We developed and tested a specific approach for multi-species grazing on deer farms by combining some principles of contemporary livestock husbandry: the fenced farming of domestic ruminants, deer farming and ...

    Axel Behrendt, Andreas Fischer in Novel Measurement and Assessment Tools for… (2014)

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    Simple Field Methods for Measurement and Evaluation of Grassland Quality

    Grasslands and rangelands are very important ecosystems influencing natural cycles and human existence and well-being. Their functional status can be greatly affected by soil and water management. Grasslands a...

    Lothar Mueller, Axel Behrendt in Novel Measurement and Assessment Tools for… (2014)

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    Productivity Potentials of the Global Land Resource for Crop** and Grazing

    The chapter gives an overview of global land potentials, crop yields and their limiting factors, and of methods to evaluate the productivity potential of land. Maintaining the capacity of the global land resou...

    Lothar Mueller, Uwe Schindler, Bruce C. Ball in Novel Measurement and Assessment Tools for… (2014)