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Research and development of silvopastoral systems in a village in the buffer zone of the El Ocote Biosphere Reserve, Chiapas, Mexico
(2015)
A participatory research and development project in establishment of agrosilvopastoral systems was documented. This study was carried out in the village Tierra Nueva (TN), located in the Buffer zone of the ElOcote Biosphere ...
Groundwater vulnerability mapping in two watersheds affected by Yacyreta Dam in Paraguay
(2015)
Groundwater vulnerability mapping was conducted for two
intensive agriculture and urban watersheds draining to the
Yacyreta Dam in Paraguay. Two widely used overlaying
methods (GOD and DRASTIC) were applied and compared
to ...
Influence of topographic and edaphic factors on vulnerability to soil degradation due to cattle grazing in humid tropical mountains in northern Honduras
(2015-01-22)
Low altitude humid tropical mountains in Central America have experienced a process of livestock expansion during recent decades. However, the use of sloping areas for cattle grazingmay lead to significant soil degradation
and ...
An overview of existing and promising technologies for national forest monitoring
(Springer Link, 2015)
More stable productivity of semi natural grasslands than sown pastures in a seasonally dry climate
(2015-01-27)
In the Neotropics the predominant pathway to intensify productivity is generally thought to be to convert grasslands to
sown pastures, mostly in monoculture. This article examines how above-ground net primary productivity ...
On the ability of a global atmospheric inversion to constrain variations of CO2 fluxes over Amazonia
(2015)
The exchanges of carbon, water and energy between
the atmosphere and the Amazon basin have global implications
for the current and future climate. Here, the global
atmospheric inversion system of the Monitoring of ...