Storm water runoff was collected at 10-m intervals in three buffer types (native grass, fallow cropland, and Conservation Reserve Program).
Areas with low shares of food crops in Kitui District may be temporary, reflecting large shares of fallow cropland during the 1997 season of the aerial surveys.
Less fallow cropland, fewer bees, fewer almonds.
A range of maps depict global cropland area, crop distribution, cropping frequency, and the extent of irrigated as well as fallow cropland.
3. Includes harvested cropland, land with failed crops (some cropland not harvested due to lack of labor or low market prices is also considered as crop failure), cultivated summer fallow, cropland used only for pasture, and idled cropland.
SOC and N decreased in the order of forest > grassland > fallow > croplands > pasture due to inherent soil properties, anthropogenic activities, land cover/land use and topographic factors.
Populations at temperate latitudes, however, can inhabit buildings (either seasonally or throughout the year) or live outside in grasslands, fallow fields, croplands, grassy coastal dunes, or shrubby deserts.
The three transects consisted of typical land use structure from the top to foot of hillslope in the study area: fallow land – cropland – woodland – orchard (T1), fallow land – shrub land – fallow land – cropland – woodland – orchard (T2) and intercropping land – woodland (T3).
Use of soil deterioration index showed that soils deteriorated moderately (−17·05%) under orchard and seriously (ranging from −29·91% to −20·32%) under fallow land, cropland and intercropping land, while soils had no deterioration (−0·74%) under shrubland and (−0·69%) grassland.
The EC stations have been established in October 2012 and January 2013 in the West African Sudanian Savanna along a gradient of changing land use (cover) characteristics (grassland, a mixture of fallow and cropland and nature reserve), close to the border between Ghana and Burkina Faso [17].
Our daily values of photosynthetically driven carbon uptake of -2.93, -3.51 and -6.78 g C m-1 d-1 for the grassland, mixture of fallow and cropland and nature reserve respectively compared well with values of -0.48, -1.8, -2.4 -3.6 and -5.9 g C m-1 d-1 obtained for some former flux measurements (Table 3).
