A global meta-analysis of livestock grazing impacts on soil properties

L Lai, S Kumar - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Grazing effects on soil properties under different soil and environmental conditions across
the globe are often controversial. Therefore, it is essential to evaluate the overall magnitude …

Effects of charcoal production on soil physical properties in Ghana

PG Oguntunde, BJ Abiodun, AE Ajayi… - Journal of Plant …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Charcoal production, widespread in Ghana like in other W African countries, is a major
driver of land‐cover change. Effects of charcoal production on soil physical, including …

A cross‐biome comparison of daily light use efficiency for gross primary production

DP Turner, S Urbanski, D Bremer… - Global change …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Vegetation light use efficiency is a key physiological parameter at the canopy scale, and at
the daily time step is a component of remote sensing algorithms for scaling gross primary …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of Wildfires on Groundwater Recharge: A Comprehensive Analysis of Processes, Methodological Challenges, and Research Opportunities

M Guzmán-Rojo, J Fernandez, P d'Abzac… - Water, 2024 - mdpi.com
Increasing wildfire activity has led to complex ecosystem consequences, with direct effects
on the subsystems that affect the presence and movement of water. Although studies have …

Energy partitioning between latent and sensible heat flux during the warm season at FLUXNET sites

KB Wilson, DD Baldocchi, M Aubinet… - Water Resources …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The warm season (mid‐June through late August) partitioning between sensible (H) and
latent (LE) heat flux, or the Bowen ratio (β= H/LE), was investigated at 27 sites over 66 site …

Soil heat flux

TJ Sauer, R Horton - Micrometeorology in agricultural systems, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Soil heat flux is important in micrometeorology because it effectively couples energy transfer
processes at the surface (surface energy balance) with energy transfer processes in the soil …

Environmental and biophysical controls on the evapotranspiration over the highest alpine steppe

N Ma, Y Zhang, Y Guo, H Gao, H Zhang, Y Wang - Journal of Hydrology, 2015 - Elsevier
Characterizing the water and energy flux in the alpine steppe ecosystem in Tibetan Plateau
(TP) is of particular importance for elucidating hydrological cycle mechanisms in high …

Evapotranspiration in a prairie ecosystem: effects of grazing by cattle

DJ Bremer, LM Auen, JM Ham… - Agronomy Journal, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Grazing by ungulates is common in grasslands and may influence evapotranspiration (ET).
The Bowen ratio energy balance method (BREB) was used to measure ET from grazed (GR) …

Global mapping of vegetation parameters from POLDER multiangular measurements for studies of surface‐atmosphere interactions: A pragmatic method and its …

JL Roujean, R Lacaze - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a pragmatic method to produce global maps of vegetation parameters,
which offer essential data for weather forecast and climate modeling. The crucial variables …

A small multi-needle probe for measuring soil thermal properties, water content and electrical conductivity

KL Bristow, GJ Kluitenberg, CJ Goding… - … and electronics in …, 2001 - Elsevier
Ready access to reliable low cost instrumentation for use in laboratory and field
experimentation remains a priority for many working in the soil and environmental sciences …