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Agricultural Landscapes: History, Status and Challenges
Agricultural landscapes (rural landscapes, agrolandscapes) are territories shaped by agricultural production. They have enabled the development of human civilizations and are a cultural achievement. Peasants, ...
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Optimizing Agricultural Landscapes: Measures Towards Prosperity and Sustainability
Due to the multiplicity of challenges facing all societies at the beginning of the twenty-first century, agricultural systems and rural landscapes are under pressure. Solutions for their optimization towards s...
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Exploring Agricultural Landscapes: Recent Progress and Opportunities for Eurasia
Most vegetated land on earth has been used for agriculture for hundreds of years, sha** the land’s features and functions. Agricultural (rural) landscapes are the basis for feeding the global population and ...
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Landscapes, Their Exploration and Utilisation: Status and Trends of Landscape Research
A new geological epoch has begun—the Anthropocene. Huge anthropogenic transformations of terrestrial landscapes over the past five decades have forced its declaration. Exploring of interaction of humans with n...
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Open AccessForensic hydrology: what function tells about structure in complex settings
Facing the challenges of the European Water Framework Directive and competing demands requires a sound knowledge of the hydrological system. This is a major challenge in regions like Northeast Germany. The la...
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Status Report About Understanding, Monitoring and Controlling Landscape Processes in Siberia
Siberia has experienced significant transformations over the past 70 years and particularly since the introduction of the market economy 25 years ago. This has caused implications for landscape processes and f...
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Potential of Applying Novel Monitoring and Management Methods to Siberian Landscapes
This chapter reviews and summarises the overall content of the book “Novel Methods for Monitoring and Managing Land and Water Resources in Siberia”. The book starts with an extended analysis of water and land ...
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Land and Water Resources of Siberia, Their Functioning and Ecological State
Siberia is the backbone of the economy of modern Russia due to huge reserves of gas, oil, land and water. Not only resource extracting and processing industries, but also forestry and agriculture capitalize th...
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Assessing and Controlling Land Use Impacts on Groundwater Quality
Stewardship of fresh water resources is of paramount importance throughout Europe and for all environmental policies now and in the future. The problem has especially affected areas under predominantly agricul...
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Model-Based Impact Analysis of Climate and Land Use Changes on the Landscape Water Balance
Changes in the water balance in landscapes can be easily observed by measuring water levels, runoff, etc. Determining the causes of changes in the water balance is much more difficult, because of the complex i...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Using Soil–Water–Plant Models to Improve the Efficiency of Irrigation
Crop irrigation is just as essential to agriculture in Central Asia as it is in parts of Eastern and Central Europe. Model-based tools for computerised irrigation scheduling have been under development for sev...
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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...
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Long-Term Measurements to Quantify the Impact of Arable Management Practices on Deep Seepage and Nitrate Leaching
Long-term soil hydrological measurements were used to quantify deep seepage and nitrate leaching in situ under undisturbed soil conditions. Deep seepage rates and nitrate losses from arable land managed under ...
