scholarly journals International trade, and land use intensification and spatial reorganization explain Costa Rica’s forest transition

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 035005 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Jadin ◽  
P Meyfroidt ◽  
E F Lambin
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Forest Transition ◽  
Land Use Intensification ◽  
Spatial Reorganization

scholarly journals Spatial Differentiation of Cultivated Land Use Intensification in Village Settings: A Survey of Typical Chinese Villages

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Quanfeng Li ◽  
Zhe Dong ◽  
Guoming Du ◽  
Aizheng Yang
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Spatial Differentiation ◽  
Cultivated Land ◽  
Output State ◽  
Land Use Intensification ◽  
Development Levels ◽  
Business Entities

The intensified use of cultivated land is essential for optimizing crop planting practices and protecting food security. This study employed a telecoupling framework to evaluate the cultivated land use intensification rates in typical Chinese villages (village cultivated land use intensifications—VCLUIs). The pressure–state–response (PSR) model organizes the VCLUI indexes including the intensity press, output state, and structural response of cultivated land use. Empirical analysis conducted in Baiquan County, China, indicating that the cultivated land use intensification levels of the whole county were low. However, the intensifications of villages influenced by physical and geographic locations and socioeconomic development levels varied significantly. This paper also found that variations in the VCLUIs were mainly dependent on new labor-driven social subsystem differences. Thus, the expanding per capita farmland scales and increasing numbers of new agricultural business entities were critical in improving the VCLUI. Overall, the theoretical framework proposed in this study was demonstrated to be effective in analyzing interactions among the natural, social, and economic subsystems of the VCLUI. The findings obtained in this study potentially have important implications for future regional food security, natural stability, and agricultural land use sustainability.

Global soil microbial biomass decreases with aridity and land‐use intensification

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 1056-1069
Author(s):  
Xiaohua Wan ◽  
Xinli Chen ◽  
Zhiqun Huang ◽  
Han Y. H. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Microbial Biomass ◽  
Soil Microbial Biomass ◽  
Soil Microbial ◽  
Land Use Intensification ◽  
Global Soil

The effect of irrigated land-use intensification on the topsoil physical properties of a pastoral silt loam

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
John J. Drewry ◽  
Sam Carrick ◽  
Nicole L. Mesman ◽  
Peter Almond ◽  
Karin Müller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Physical Properties ◽  
Silt Loam ◽  
Land Use Intensification

Macroinvertebrate communities and macrophyte decomposition could be affected by land use intensification in subtropical lowland streams

Limnetica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-357
Author(s):  
M. Burwood ◽  
J. Clemente ◽  
M. Meerhoff ◽  
C. Iglesias ◽  
G. Goyenola ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Macroinvertebrate Communities ◽  
Lowland Streams ◽  
Land Use Intensification

Soil organic carbon dynamics in the agricultural soils of Bangladesh following more than 20 years of land use intensification

2022 ◽  
Vol 305 ◽  
pp. 114427
Author(s):  
M.J. Uddin ◽  
Peter S. Hooda ◽  
A.S.M. Mohiuddin ◽  
M. Ershadul Haque ◽  
Mike Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Soil Organic Carbon ◽  
Agricultural Soils ◽  
Carbon Dynamics ◽  
Land Use Intensification ◽  
Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics

scholarly journals Intensive slurry management and climate change promote nitrogen mining from organic matter-rich montane grassland soils

2020 ◽  
Vol 456 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 81-98
Author(s):  
Marcus Schlingmann ◽  
Ursina Tobler ◽  
Bernd Berauer ◽  
Noelia Garcia-Franco ◽  
Peter Wilfahrt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Organic Matter ◽  
Alpine Region ◽  
N Recovery ◽  
Soil N ◽  
Fertilizer N ◽  
Grassland Soils ◽  
Land Use Intensification ◽  
Plant Soil

Abstract Aims Consequences of climate change and land use intensification on the nitrogen (N) cycle of organic-matter rich grassland soils in the alpine region remain poorly understood. We aimed to identify fates of fertilizer N and to determine the overall N balance of an organic-matter rich grassland in the European alpine region as influenced by intensified management and warming. Methods We combined 15N cattle slurry labelling with a space for time climate change experiment, which was based on translocation of intact plant-soil mesocosms down an elevational gradient to induce warming of +1 °C and + 3 °C. Mesocosms were subject to either extensive or intensive management. The fate of slurry-N was traced in the plant-soil system. Results Grassland productivity was very high (8.2 t - 19.4 t dm ha−1 yr−1), recovery of slurry 15N in mowed plant biomass was, however, low (9.6–14.7%), illustrating low fertilizer N use efficiency and high supply of plant available N via mineralization of soil organic matter (SOM). Higher 15N recovery rates (20.2–31.8%) were found in the soil N pool, dominated by recovery in unextractable N. Total 15N recovery was approximately half of the applied tracer, indicating substantial loss to the environment. Overall, high N export by harvest (107–360 kg N ha−1 yr−1) markedly exceeded N inputs, leading to a negative grassland N balance. Conclusions Here provided results suggests a risk of soil N mining in montane grasslands, which increases both under climate change and land use intensification.

scholarly journals Collembolan communities as bioindicators of land use intensification

2003 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 813-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.F Ponge ◽  
S Gillet ◽  
F Dubs ◽  
E Fedoroff ◽  
L Haese ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Intensification
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