The agricultural sector is facing the challenge of climate change, which is increasing
difficulties to the activity and the economic sustainability of the primary sector, also affecting …

Plant functional types (PFTs) have been widely used to represent the vegetation
characteristics and their interlinkage with the surrounding environment in various earth …

Globally, we are facing an emerging climate crisis, with impacts to be notably felt in semiarid
regions across the world. Cultivation of drought‐adapted succulent plants has been …

Prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) is a multipurpose plant in drylands. The objective of this
study was to synthesize the livelihood benefits, survival threats and management of cactus …

Agroforestry in the form of intercropping, boundary plantation, and home garden are parts of
traditional land management systems in India. Systematic implementation of agroforestry …

Kolkata being a metropolitan city in India has its main municipal solid waste dumpsite
situated at Dhapa just adjacent to the East Kolkata Wetlands (Ramsar site). The current …

This article seeks to provide an improved and more comprehensive understanding of the
concept and theories on wasteland. It achieves this by focusing on the Indian context …

Identifying the environmental drivers of the global distribution of succulent plants using the
Crassulacean acid metabolism pathway of photosynthesis has previously been investigated …

A morphological and quality analysis of 64 global core collections of cactus genotypes was
conducted using 30 growth and fodder quality traits. Results indicated a high coefficient of …

The adaptation measures of agricultural crops to current climate change are also reflected at
the level of land-use planning for species with resistance to rainfall shortages and periods of …