|
|
|
|
|
Jhon Lennon Bezerra da Silva, Marcos Vinícius da Silva, Alexandre Maniçoba da Rosa Ferraz Jardim, Pabrício Marcos Oliveira Lopes, Henrique Fonseca Elias de Oliveira, Josef Augusto Oberdan Souza Silva, Márcio Mesquita, Ailton Alves de Carvalho, Alan Cézar Bezerra, José Francisco de Oliveira-Júnior, Maria Beatriz Ferreira, Iara Tamires Rodrigues Cavalcante, Elania Freire da Silva and Geber Barbosa de Albuquerque Moura
Northeast Brazil (NEB), particularly its semiarid region, represents an area highly susceptible to the impacts of climate change, including severe droughts, and intense anthropogenic activities. These stresses may be accelerating environmental degradatio...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Elias Ariel Moura, Vander Mendonça, Vladimir Batista Figueirêdo, Luana Mendes Oliveira, Marlenildo Ferreira Melo, Toni Halan Silva Irineu, Alex Danilo Monte Andrade, Edvan Alves Chagas, Pollyana Cardoso Chagas, Enoch Souza Ferreira, Luciana Freitas Medeiros Mendonça and Francisco Romário Andrade Figueiredo
The need to diversify agricultural production has fostered the cultivation of several crops under environmental conditions atypical to their origin, justifying the extreme importance of studies on the agricultural management of crops in semiarid regions....
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jacques Carvalho Ribeiro Filho, Eunice Maia de Andrade, Maria Simas Guerreiro, Helba Araújo de Queiroz Palácio and José Bandeira Brasil
Soil?s physical and hydrological properties influence the proper modeling, planning, and management of water resources and soil conservation. In areas of vertic soils subjected to wetting and drying cycles, the soil?water?atmosphere interaction is comple...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Carlos G. Ochoa, Federico Villarreal-Guerrero, Jesús A. Prieto-Amparán, Hector R. Garduño, Feng Huang and Carlos Ortega-Ochoa
For this study, conducted in a semiarid (318 mm) rangeland setting in the Chihuahuan Desert region in northern Mexico, we evaluated the seasonal and interannual variability of precipitation, vegetation, and groundwater relations. Between 2012 and 2014, a...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Christina Chaski, Kyriakos D. Giannoulis, Alexios A. Alexopoulos and Spyridon A. Petropoulos
The scarcity of water is limiting crop production and is one of the most important stressors that severely affects crop yield, and it may also decrease the quality of the final products. Most of the medicinal and aromatic plants are considered resilient ...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Biagina Chiofalo, Alessandro Vastolo, Marianna Oteri, Serena Calabrò, Rosangela Armone, Danilo Scordia, Monica Isabella Cutrignelli and Fabio Gresta
The present work compared the agronomic traits, chemical composition, fatty acid profile, and in vitro fermentation characteristics of twelve accessions of Amaranthus spp., belonging to A. cruentus, A. hybridus, A. hypochondriacus, and A. tricolor, grown...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Philip H. Stauffer, Brent D. Newman, Kay H. Birdsell, Marvin O. Gard, Jeffrey M. Heikoop, Emily C. Kluk and Terry A. Miller
Vadose zone transport of tritium and nitrate can be important considerations at radioactive waste sites, landfills, or areas with industrial impacts. These contaminants are of particular concern because they typically have a relatively higher mobility in...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Thaís R. Benevides T. Aranha, Jean-Michel Martinez, Enio P. Souza, Mário U. G. Barros and Eduardo Sávio P. R. Martins
In this paper, the authors use remote-sensing images to monitor the water quality of reservoirs located in the semiarid region of Northeast Brazil. Sentinel-2 MSI TOA Level 1C reflectance images were used to remotely estimate the concentration of chlorop...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lidia Yadira Perez-Aguilar, Wenseslao Plata-Rocha, Sergio Alberto Monjardin-Armenta, Cuauhtémoc Franco-Ochoa and Yedid Guadalupe Zambrano-Medina
Arid and semiarid regions are geographic units that cover approximately 43% of the earth?s surface worldwide, and conditions of extreme drought and reduced vegetation cover predominate in these regions. In Mexico, arid and semiarid ecosystems cover more ...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Emna Mejri, Rainer Helmig and Rachida Bouhlila
Soil and groundwater salinization are very important environmental issues of global concern. They threaten mainly the arid and semiarid regions characterized by dry climate conditions and an increase of irrigation practices. Among these regions, the sout...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|