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Soil metagenomics and tropical soil productivity

This presentation summarizes research in the soil metagenomics cross cutting research activity. Soil metagenomics studies soil microbial communities as contributors to soil health.C

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): K. Garrett
  • Type of Document: Media

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Intraspecific functional diversity in hosts and its effect on disease risk across a climatic gradient

The effects of host biodiversity on disease risk may vary greatly depending on host population structure and climatic conditions. Agricultural diseases such as potato late blight, […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): K.A. Garrett; L.N. Zuniga; E. Roncal; G.A.Forbes; C.C. Mundt; Z. Su; R.J. Nelson
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Plant pathogens as indicators of climate change

We have reviewed how changes in the pattern of plant disease can be analyzed for evaluation of evidence for climate change impacts.

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): K.A. Garrett; M. Nita; E.D. De Wolf; L. Gomez; A.H. Sparks
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Conservation agriculture and soil quality

The implementation of conservation agriculture can beneficially add to the soil’s organic matter, decrease erosion, and increase the soil’s water holding capacity. A substantial increase in […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): P. Hepperly
  • Type of Document: Media

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Reducing human-wildlife conflicts in game management areas

This presentation examines reductions in human-wildlife conflicts in game management areas in Zambia.

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): J. Ngumayo; W. Daka
  • Type of Document: Media

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Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) Global Applications

Summary: SWAT,the Soil and Water Assessment Tool is a river basin, or watershed, scale model developed to predict the impact of land management practices on water, […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): J. Arnold; R. Srinivasan; S. Neitsch; C. George; K. Abbaspour; F.H. Hao; A. van Griensven; A. Gosain; P. Debels; N.W. Kim; H. Somura; V.B. Ella; L. Leon; A. Jintrawet; M. Reyes; S. Sombatpanit (eds.)
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Fostering Adaptive Capacity

Adapting to Change in the Andean Highlands: Practices and Strategies to Address Climate and Market Risks in Vulnerable Agro-ecosystems (SANREM CRSP LTRA 4) focus is to […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): J. Gilles; C. Valdivia
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

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Market integration: The challenge of climate change

This article analyzes the effect of adaptive small-scale agricultural strategies in the Bolivian Altiplano region on local diet, market integration, and economic welfare. Farmers in this […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): E. Jimenez; C. Valdivia
  • Type of Document: Research Report

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Soil carbon sequestration for advancing food security and offsetting CO2 Emissions

Agricultural soil C sinks, potentially significant depository of atmospheric CO2, are important to numerous ecosystems services including mitigation and adaptation to climate change, improvements in quantity […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): R. Lal
  • Type of Document: Media

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Improved nutrient parameters for modeling diffuse pollution in the tropics

Review of literature to determine appropriate parameters for nutrient relationships in tropical conditions. Comparison specifically to the GLEAMS model. Recommendations of parameter values and new relationships […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): M.A.C. Caiado; C.D. Heatwole
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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