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Land Use and Water Quality Along a Mekong Tributary in Northern Lao P.D.R. by Ribolzi, Olivier, Cuny, Juliette, Sengsoulichanh, Phonexay, Mousques, Claire, Soulileuth, Bounsamai, Pierret, Alain, Huon, S., Sengtaheuanghoung, Oloth

“…This study focuses on stream water quality along a Mekong basin tributary, the Houay Xon that flows within a mountainous, mosaic land-use catchment of northern Lao P.D.R. …”
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Predicting discharge and sediment for the Abay (Blue Nile) with a simple model by Steenhuis, Tammo S., Collick, A.S., Easton, Z.M., Leggesse, E.S., Bayabil, H.K., White, E.D., Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele, Adgo, E., Ahmed, A.A.

“…The objective of this study is to develop simple hydrology and erosion models using saturation excess runoff principles and interflow processes appropriate for a monsoonal climate and a mountainous landscape. We developed a hydrology model using a water balance approach by dividing the landscape into variable saturated areas, exposed rock and hillslopes. …”
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Anthropogenic Decline of Ecosystem Services Threatens the Integrity of the Unique Hyrcanian (Caspian) Forests in Northern Iran by Zarandian, A., Baral, H., Yavari, A.R., Jafari, H.R., Stork, N.E., Ling, M.A., Amirnejad, H.

“…We assess the status and trends of key ecosystem services in this region where native forest conversion has accelerated to make way for housing and farm development. This is a mountainous forested area that is valuable for both conservation and multiple human uses including recreation and farming. …”
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Evaluation of ENACTS-Rwanda: A new multi-decade, high resolution rainfall and temperature data set—Climatology by Siebert, Asher, Dinku, Tufa, Vuguziga, Floribert, Twahirwa, Anthony, Kagabo, Desire M., Corral, John del, Robertson, Andrew W.

“…Topography has a significant effect with the more mountainous, higher‐elevation western part of the country being consistently cooler and wetter than the lower, flatter eastern region. …”
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En analys av vildrenars, fårs och kronhjorts nyttjande av saltstensplatser på norska fjäll i relation till avmagringssjuka (CWD) by Johansson, Cecilia

“…A common practice in Norway is to let sheep, goats and cattle roam freely in the mountains during summer. They are provided with salt licks, which is mainly done by farmers having sheep on summer pasture. …”
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State of ex situ conservation of landrace groups of 25 major crops by Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando, Khoury, Colin K., Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando, Díaz, Maria Victoria, Mendez Alzate, Andres Camilo, Sosa, Chrystian C., Kehel, Zakaria, Guarino, Luigi, Abberton, Michael T., Aunario, Jorrel, Al Awar, Bashir, Alarcón, Juan Carlos, Amri, Ahmed, Anglin, Noelle L., Azevedo, Vania, Aziz, Khadija, Capilit, Grace Lee, Chavez, Oswaldo, Chebotarov, Dmytro, Costich, Denise E., Debouck, Daniel G., Ellis, David, Falalou, Hamidou, Fiu, Albert, Ghanem, Michel Edmond, Giovannini, Peter, Goungoulou, Alphonse J., Gueye, Badara, El Hobyb, Amal Ibn, Jamnadass, Ramni, Jones, Christopher S., Kpeki, Bienvenu, Lee, Jae-Sung, McNally, Kenneth L., Muchugi, Alice, Ndjiondjop, Marie-Noelle, Oyatomi, Olaniyi, Payne, Thomas S., Ramachandran, Senthil, Rossel, Genoveva, Roux, Nicolas Stephan M., Ruas, Max, Sansaloni, Carolina P., Sardos, Julie, Setiyono, Tri Deri, Tchamba, Marimagne, Houwe, Ines van den, Velazquez, J. Alejandro, Venuprasad, Ramaiah, Wenzl, Peter, Yazbek, Mariana, Zavala, Cristian

“…Geographic regions prioritized for further collection of landrace groups for ex situ conservation include South Asia, the Mediterranean and West Asia, Mesoamerica, sub-Saharan Africa, the Andean mountains of South America and Central to East Asia. …”
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Sheep faeces decomposition and nutrient release across an environmental gradient in Southern Patagonia by Bahamonde, Héctor Alejandro, Gargaglione, Veronica Beatriz, Peri, Pablo Luis

“…In Southern Patagonia, most of the land ranging from the mountains to the sea in contrasting environmental conditions is devoted to extensive sheep farming. …”
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Spatial patterns of cultural ecosystem services provision in Southern Patagonia by Martinez Pastur, Guillermo José, Peri, Pablo Luis, Lencinas, María Vanessa, García Llorente, Marina

“…Methods The study was carried out in Southern Patagonia (243.9 thousand km2) located between 46° and 55° SL with the Andes mountains on the western fringe and the Atlantic Ocean on the eastern fringe of the study area. …”
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Agroecosystem patterns and land management co-develop through environment, management, and land-use interactions by Caulfield, Mark E., Fonte, Steven J., Groot, Jeroen C.J., Vanek, Steven J., Sherwood, Stephen, Oyarzun, Pedro, Borja, Ross Mary, Dumble, Sam, Tittonell, Pablo Adrian

“…A poor understanding of the interactions between biophysical and social elements within rural mountainous landscapes can lead to suboptimal management and recommendations. …”
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Human footprint defining conservation strategies in Patagonian landscapes: Where we are and where we want to go? by Rosas, Yamina Micaela, Peri, Pablo Luis, Pidgeon, Anna Michle, Politi, Natalia, Pedrana, Julieta, Díaz-Delgado, Ricardo, Martinez Pastur, Guillermo José

“…HFI varied significantly across the natural landscapes, being lower (0.07−0.11) in remote ecosystems close to the Andes Mountains and higher (0.38−0.40) in southern areas close to the provincial capital city. …”
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Empirical Analysis Of Seasonal Rainfall Variability And Its Associated Effects On Major Food Crop Yields In Rwanda by Ayabagado, Prosper

“…The early onset was found in the zones surrounding the high mountains of Crete Congo Nile, which is in agreement with the migration of the ITCZ during the short and long rains season. …”
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Evaluating the global state of ecosystems and natural resources: within and beyond the SDGs by Dickens, Christopher, McCartney, Matthew P., Tickner, D., Harrison, I. J., Pacheco, P., Ndhlovu, Brown

“…Indicators for monitoring land resources show that the most comprehensive land resource indicator for degraded land is not fully implemented and that missing from land monitoring is an evaluation of vegetation health outside of forests and mountains, the condition of soils, and most importantly the overall health of terrestrial ecosystems. …”
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Water spreading weirs altering flood, nutrient distribution and crop productivity in upstream–downstream settings in dry lowlands of Afar, Ethiopia by Getnet, M., Amede, T., Tilahun, G., Legesse, G., Gumma, Murali K., Abebe, H., Gashaw, T., Ketter, C., Akker, Elisabeth van den

“…Afar in Ethiopia is a drought prone area characterized by low rainfall, high temperature and suffering from flash flood emerging from adjacent mountains. We introduced a flood barrier, water spreading weirs (WSWs) in 2015 to convert floods to a productive use and assessed its effect in 2016 and 2017. …”
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Crops that feed the world 7: Rice by Seck, P.A., Diagne, A., Mohanty, Samarendu, Wopereis, Marco C.S.

“…On both continents, rice is grown in a wide range of climatic conditions, from river deltas to mountainous regions. Irrigated systems dominate in Asia and rainfed systems in Africa. …”
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Evaluation of GRACE derived groundwater storage changes in different agro-ecological zones of the Indus Basin by Akhtar, F., Nawaz, R. A., Hafeez, Mohsin, Awan, Usman Khalid, Borgemeister, C., Tischbein, B.

“…The GWSA’s poor correlation with the in-situ measurements particularly in the mountainous region of the KRB is driven by the 4 months lag time unlike in the LBDC (i.e. 3 months); besides, the observations wells are sparse and limited. …”
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A Regional Perspective of Socio-Ecological Predictors for Fruit and Nut Tree Varietal Diversity Maintained by Farmer Communities in Central Asia by Turdieva, Muhabbat, Bernis-Fonteneau, Agnès, Esenalieva, Maira, Kayimov, Abdihalil, Saparmyradov, Ashirmuhammed, Safaraliev, Khursandi, Shalpykov, Kairkul, Colangelo, Paolo, Jarvis, Devra

“…Ethno-linguistic groups also have an effect on the level of varietal diversity used, related to both historic nomadic practices and a culture of harvesting wild fruit and nuts in mountainous areas. The home garden management system hosts a higher diversity compared to larger production systems such as orchards. …”
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Assessing climate change impacts on water resources and Colorado agriculture using an equilibrium Displacement Mathematical Programming Model by Fathelrahman, Eihab, Davies, Amalia, Davies, Stephen, Pritchett, James

“…Most agriculture is based on irrigated production, which depends on both groundwater, especially from the Ogallala aquifer, and surface water that comes from runoff derived from snowpack in the Rocky Mountains. The analysis is composed of a Base simulation, designed to represent selected features of the agricultural economy several decades in the future, and then three alternative climatic scenarios are run. …”
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Évaluation des problèmes critiques de la recherche et developpement agricole au Burkina Faso: Le cas de l’institut national des recherches agricoles du Burkina Faso (INERA) by Traoré, Hamidou, Traoré, San

“…Most agriculture is based on irrigated production, which depends on both groundwater, especially from the Ogallala aquifer, and surface water that comes from runoff derived from snowpack in the Rocky Mountains. The analysis is composed of a Base simulation, designed to represent selected features of the agricultural economy several decades in the future, and then three alternative climatic scenarios are run. …”
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Sociocultural factors influencing the production and consumption of fruits and vegetables in Boukoumbé in Northern Benin. by Bankole, Malikath, Bodjrenou, Sam, Houndolo, Melina, Termote, Celine, Chadare, Flora, Amoussa Hounkpatin, Waliou

“…The main reasons that explain this low production were essentially the inaccessibility of roads from villages to markets, the perishability of F&V, the soil poverty, the lack of water sources because those villages are located on the mountains, and the high seed prices of some F&V such as carrots, cabbage, and lettuce. …”
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Evaluation of new forage legume varieties for registration and dissemination in Vietnam by Tran, Ngoc Thi Bich, Bui, Viet Phong, Ngo, Dinh Tan, Than, Minh Hoang, Dao Thu, Hang Thi, Atieno, Mary, Duncan, Alan, Peters, Michael

“…These deficits, coupled with harsh winters result in the deaths of thousands of cattle annually in the Northern mountainous provinces. Addressing this challenge necessitates identifying and enhancing the utilization of high-quality, alternative feed sources. …”
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