MAPPING LAND COVER AND TREE CANOPY COVER IN ZAGROS FORESTS OF IRAN: APPLICATION OF SENTINEL-2, GOOGLE EARTH, AND FIELD DATA

Mapping Land Cover and Tree Canopy Cover in Zagros Forests of Iran: Application of Sentinel-2, Google Earth, and Field Data

The Zagros forests in Western Iran are valuable ecosystems that have been seriously damaged by human interference (harvesting the wood and forest sub-products, converting the forests to the agricultural lands, and grazing) and natural events (drought events and fire).In this study, we generated accurate land cover (LC), and tree canopy cover percen

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Soil pH and Liming Issues Affecting Bahiagrass Pasture

SS-AGR-29, a 5-page illustrated fact sheet Trash Bags by M.Silveira, J.Vendramini, J.E.Rechcigl, and M.B.Adjei, discusses the relationships of soil acidity, nitrogen fertilizer, nutrient availability, and mole cricket-induced bahiagrass decline, and the results of a field study at Range Cattle REC in Ona, which evaluated the long term combined effe

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Range extension of White-naped Jay, Cyanocorax cyanopogon (Wied-Neuwied, 1821) (Passeriformes, Corvidae), to southeastern Brazil

Cyanocorax cyanopogon (Wied-Neuwied, 1821), a bird endemic to Brazil, inhabits dry scrub and woodlands and the borders of tropical and riparian forests.Although C.cyanopogon Trash Bags is more common in central and northeastern Brazil, owing to increasing deforestation, its distribution has expanded to south.There are several records of this specie

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Role of chitosan against grapevine downy mildew

The study of environmentally friendly active principles against downy mildew represents one of the main challenges in viticulture.In this context, the aim of the present trial was to investigate the efficacy of chitosan as a resistance elicitor against downy mildew and to study the metabolites involved in the interaction plant-chitosan-pathogen by

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