Mediterranean agriculture has coevolved with harsh environments and changing climate
conditions over millennia, generating an extremely rich heritage of traditional knowledge; …

For thousands of years, humans have created different types of terraces in different sloping
conditions, meant to mitigate flood risks, reduce soil erosion and conserve water. These …

Mediterranean croplands are seasonally dry agroecosystems with low soil organic carbon
(SOC) content and high risk of land degradation and desertification. The increase in SOC is …

The spatial variability of soil total nitrogen (STN) and soil total phosphorus (STP) levels,
which may be greatly affected by land use, plays an important role in both agriculture and …

In water-restricted erosive mountains environments, large-scale vegetation plantation and
diverse terracing measures have been widely used as the most powerful ecological …

Abstract Study Region Yangpota Mountain in Zhuanglang County, Loess Plateau Hilly Area.
Study Focus In dry and degraded ecosystems, water scarcity remains the most significant …

Terracing greatly affects soil properties, ecosystem services, human welfare and
geographical sustainability. The purpose of this article is to determine the influence of …

Terracing and vegetation restoration are the basic measures to protect soil from water
erosion and to combat land degradation. However, long-term quantitative evaluation on the …

Terracing is the oldest technique for water and soil conservation on natural hilly slopes. In
Northern Thailand, terraced paddy fields were constructed long ago, but scientific questions …

The purpose of this study was to empirically estimate machine and labor costs for
mechanization of viticultural processes and to assess the relative effect of mechanization …