Agro-EcosystemsPub Date : 1981-06-01DOI: 10.1016/0304-3746(81)90011-1
J. Gasquez, J.P. Compoint
{"title":"Isoenzymatic variations in populations of Chenopodium album L. resistant and susceptible to triazines","authors":"J. Gasquez, J.P. Compoint","doi":"10.1016/0304-3746(81)90011-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0304-3746(81)90011-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As part of a study of triazine resistance in weed species, the authors have collected several resistant populations of <em>Chenopodium album</em> in different areas in France. A study of intra- and inter-population variability between different susceptible and resistant populations has been made using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of foliar isoenzymes. The separation of esterases and malate dehydrogenase isoenzymes was carried out in a modified vertical apparatus.</p><p>Within each resistant population, all individuals have the same pattern of esterase and populations collected in the same area have the same zymogram. However, populations from different areas have distinct zymograms. These data suggest that the resistant populations originated in the region where they now occur, and that there is a high rate of self-pollination in each resistant population.</p><p>After treating a susceptible population with a low dose of atrazine, about 1% of plants survived and these have a high frequency of the esterase zymogram typical of resistant individuals. The offspring of these plants are completely resistant. The resistant and susceptible populations grew near each other so that they may have a common origin. The pattern of occurrence of resistance in relation to its inheritance and the level of inbreeding in populations is discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100066,"journal":{"name":"Agro-Ecosystems","volume":"7 1","pages":"Pages 1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0304-3746(81)90011-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79738461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Agro-EcosystemsPub Date : 1981-06-01DOI: 10.1016/0304-3746(81)90012-3
O.P. Toky, P.S. Ramakrishnan
{"title":"Cropping and yields in agricultural systems of the north-eastern hill region of India","authors":"O.P. Toky, P.S. Ramakrishnan","doi":"10.1016/0304-3746(81)90012-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0304-3746(81)90012-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Shifting agriculture locally known as jhum is the predominant form of agriculture used by the local tribe of the north-eastern hill region of India. There is also some valley rice cultivation and terrace cultivation. The structure and some functional aspects of these three agro-ecosystem types are discussed and compared. The 30 year jhum cycle has the advantage over the 10 or 5 year cycle apart from higher yields, in that the monetary output/input ratio under a 30 year jhum cycle is comparatively favourable. Further, the 30 year jhum cycle is advantageous over terrace cultivation as the latter needs heavy inputs of fertilizers. The main advantage of settled valley cultivation is the raising of crops consistent in yield year after year from the same site.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100066,"journal":{"name":"Agro-Ecosystems","volume":"7 1","pages":"Pages 11-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0304-3746(81)90012-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86456728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Agro-EcosystemsPub Date : 1981-06-01DOI: 10.1016/0304-3746(81)90021-4
R. Misra
{"title":"The study of vegetation","authors":"R. Misra","doi":"10.1016/0304-3746(81)90021-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0304-3746(81)90021-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100066,"journal":{"name":"Agro-Ecosystems","volume":"7 1","pages":"Pages 90-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0304-3746(81)90021-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"102947706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Agro-EcosystemsPub Date : 1981-06-01DOI: 10.1016/0304-3746(81)90015-9
Christopher Uhl, Peter Murphy
{"title":"A comparison of productivities and energy values between slash and burn agriculture and secondary succession in the upper Rio Negro region of the Amazon Basin","authors":"Christopher Uhl, Peter Murphy","doi":"10.1016/0304-3746(81)90015-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0304-3746(81)90015-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>An analysis of the energy inputs and outputs for conuco agriculture (i.e., shifting cultivation) and a comparison of productivity between conuco crops and successional vegetation was undertaken near the town of San Carlos de Rio Negro in southern Venezuela.</p><p>The main crop, yuca (<em>Manihot esculenta</em>, Crantz), yielded (m.t. = metric tonnes) 4.31 m.t. ha<sup>−1</sup> wet weight in year one; production declined to 2.81 m.t. ha<sup>−1</sup> in the second year. The infertile soils of the region are the major cause of these low yields.</p><p>Although relatively unproductive, conuco agriculture is much more energy efficient than mechanized agriculture. The ratio of energy output, in the form of processed food, to energy input in the form of human labor, averaged 13.9:1 over two cropping periods. Slightly more energy was devoted to field activities than to processing activities.</p><p>The conuco crops were more productive than the adjacent succession site vegetation (532 vs. 109 g m<sup>−2</sup> dry weight) during the first year after cutting and burning; but in the second year the successional vegetation was more than twice as productive as the conuco crops (1446 vs. 529 g m<sup>−2</sup> dry weight). This difference in second year production was attributable to greater resource allocation to leaves and longer leaf retention time for the successional vegetation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100066,"journal":{"name":"Agro-Ecosystems","volume":"7 1","pages":"Pages 63-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0304-3746(81)90015-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91422817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Agro-EcosystemsPub Date : 1981-06-01DOI: 10.1016/0304-3746(81)90013-5
Vaclav Smil
{"title":"China's agro-ecosystem","authors":"Vaclav Smil","doi":"10.1016/0304-3746(81)90013-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0304-3746(81)90013-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>China's agro-ecosystem is circumscribed by two critical environmental constraints; relative shortage of arable land and frequent regional lack or surplus of moisture. Intensive cropping and intricate water controls were developed over the centuries to deal with these constraints, and they remain the cornerstone of China's farming today. Human and animal labor continues to be an essential input, as are large quantities of organic fertilizers. Reliance on biomass fuels will also stay high for the foreseeable future. Farming modernization has brought the greatest advances to water control (both irrigation and drainage) and nitrogenous fertilizer production. However, widespread shortages and qualitative deficiences of modern inputs will not be easily eradicated. Total food output during the past three decades just kept pace with the population growth and the one-sided stress on grain production led to insufficient supply of edible oils, fruits and above all, animal foods. Overall use of external energy subsidies (direct and indirect use of fossil fuels and hydro-electricity) is still rather moderate but bold modernization plans for the 1980's would raise it substantially, thus lowering the currently high output/input ratio. Whatever the actual pace of modernization, careful attention to China's deteriorating environment will be critical. Land losses and soil degradation, erosion, deforestation and pollution are assuming alarming proportions and the long-range development of China's farming in balance with its protected environment is finally being recognized as the precondition of sustainable success.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100066,"journal":{"name":"Agro-Ecosystems","volume":"7 1","pages":"Pages 27-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0304-3746(81)90013-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82546055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Agro-EcosystemsPub Date : 1981-06-01DOI: 10.1016/0304-3746(81)90014-7
T. Hirose, N. Kuramoto
{"title":"Variability of stream water quality in some land management systems in the southern Kakioka Basin, Japan","authors":"T. Hirose, N. Kuramoto","doi":"10.1016/0304-3746(81)90014-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0304-3746(81)90014-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Diurnal and seasonal changes of the concentration of eight inorganic ions (NO<sub>3</sub>, NO<sub>2</sub>, NH<sub>4</sub>, PO<sub>4</sub>, K, Na, Ca, Mg) in stream water were investigated at four study sites in the rural landscape of the Kakioka Basin, Japan. Study sites included two woodlands and two croplands with rural and urban settlements. The diversification of land use from woodlands and croplands to settlements enhanced ionic concentrations in the stream water. Monthly variations were significant in all the eight ions. The number of ions showing significant diurnal variations increased with the increase of human activities in the drainage basin. Principal component analysis was used to characterize the difference in water quality between study sites and the seasonal and diurnal patterns of fluctuation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100066,"journal":{"name":"Agro-Ecosystems","volume":"7 1","pages":"Pages 47-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0304-3746(81)90014-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76593668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Agro-EcosystemsPub Date : 1981-06-01DOI: 10.1016/0304-3746(81)90018-4
P. Jacquard
{"title":"Heathlands and related shrublands. Descriptive studies, ecosystems of the world 9A","authors":"P. Jacquard","doi":"10.1016/0304-3746(81)90018-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0304-3746(81)90018-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100066,"journal":{"name":"Agro-Ecosystems","volume":"7 1","pages":"Pages 87-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0304-3746(81)90018-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78769894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}