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Restoration Round-up (Do or Die)
The remainder will be kept as more conservation-friendly, low intensity arable farming. Hucking Court, Pound Farm and many other projects contribute to the Trust's goal of ... 4, BBC Radio 4, 1998. "Launch of the Urban Oasis Programme" press release, undated - 1998? "Farming the City: The Potential of Urban Agriculture", Tara Garnett, The Ecologist November/December 1996, p ...
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EMS - Environmental Entomology - Invertebrate Surveys and Conservation - Bird and Insect Databases
France; declines in large parts of western and central Europe due to changes in farming methods 1988 c. 25 million individuals, 1984 n/k n/k 27900000-35200000 severe population ... /a open surfaces; firm, level, unobstructed soils, low green herbage, avoids trees lowland, mixed and arable farming areas, coasts n/k to 3000, Armenia plant and animal; invertebrates, especially insects, important in ...
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Guidance Grassland and cultivated land - Environmental Data Compendium
Almost two-thirds of the area of the Netherlands is taken up by fields of grass, arable fields, horticultural holdings, nurseries ... of the higher-lying sandy soils. In this landscape there is alternation between grassland and arable land. Use of grassland The intensive land use and the landscape changes have both ...
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East Devon Countryside
Livestock predominates although on on the drier soils of the south west part of the district there is more arable farming ... video covering a variety of farming practices in East Devon. Dairy, beef, sheep and pig farming are explained by the ... as black-and-white cine footage of old farming practices such as threshing and hand sowing. (Windows media ...
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Gentianella anglica ssp Anglica Early Gentian
Species dossiers Global Strategy & the UK Important plant areas in the UK Saving arable plants UK Publications Our nature reserves Campaigning for change Support Plantlife Get involved Discovering ... grassy places and light, warm soils, usually limestone but occasionally sandy. Land seizure for arable farming or tourist development is a principal cause of this gentian’s decline; the other ...
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Global Warming Crisis Council
Arable farming may migrate to the west as parts of East Anglia become ... along the way achieve local food-supply security through non-petroleum farming and non-oil transport and trade. The steps in the ... 624 square miles during the 1970s. * By 2025, two-thirds of arable land in Africa will disappear, along with one-third of ...
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Le rôle des légumineuses dans la pollution par les nitrates
Sweden under four cropping systems. Swedish Journal of Agricultural Research, 17:169-177. Granstedt, A. 1990. The supply and conservation of nitrogen in alternative farming. ... nitrogen economy of organic farming systems - losses to water. IFOAM 1994 International Conference Proceedings, p. 144. Stopes, C.E. 1987. Nitrate leaching in organic ley/arable farming systems. New Farmer ...
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Ecological Farming May Cause More Heavy Metals In The Soil
Discussions Features 10 February 1999 Ecological Farming May Cause More Heavy Metals In The Soil Some systems of ecological arable farming which use only organic fertilisers contaminate ... and output levels, conventional arable farming will exceed the quality norm for cadmium contamination within 70 years, ecological arable farming in 145 years' time and integrated arable farming only in 300 years ...
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Saving Species - Arable Plants Project
The Arable Plants website Many populations of rarer species have been recorded from particular fields for decades or even centuries with their fluctuations reflecting the trends in arable farming over time. This combination of site fidelity, with the ability of the majority of species to lay dormant in seed banks for many years, means arable plants ...
www.plantlife.org.uk

EMS - Environmental Entomology - Invertebrate Surveys and Conservation - Bird and Insect Databases
Western Australia Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 68 13-15 earthworms, soils, farming 10 I. Abbott 1985 Distribution of introduced earthworms in the northern jarrah forest of ... of the Western Australian wheat belt Australian Journal of Ecology 17 425-432 termites, isoptera, arable, farming, soils, diversity 21 M. Abensperg-Traun 1993 A comparison of two methods for sampling ...
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