Hydrological and erosive response of a small catchment under olive cultivation in a vertic soil during a five-year period: Implications for sustainability

2014 ◽  
Vol 188 ◽  
pp. 229-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
José A. Gómez ◽  
Tom Vanwalleghem ◽  
Ana De Hoces ◽  
Encarnación V. Taguas
Keyword(s):  
Small Catchment ◽  
Vertic Soil ◽  
Olive Cultivation

Trees and shrubs in the sanctuary. Wood charcoal analysis at the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia, Poros

2019 ◽  
pp. 255-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Ntinou
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Wood Charcoal ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
Charcoal Analysis ◽  
Additional Source ◽  
Olive Cultivation ◽  
Trees And Shrubs ◽  
By Products

Wood charcoal analysis at the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia, Poros aims to provide information on the vegetation of the area and its management and on the range of plants used in the activities taking place at the sanctuary. During the excavations of 2003–2005 in Areas D and C, systematic samples from fills and features from all the excavated strata were recovered and water flotation was used for the separation of wood charcoal from the sediment. Wood charcoal was found in two pits dated to the Early Iron Age, near the supposed altar of the Archaic period (Feature 05), in a deposit of the Hellenistic period (the “dining deposit”), in floor deposits (Early Iron Age and Late Classical/Early Hellenistic periods), and fills of different chrono-cultural periods (Archaic–Early Roman). All the taxa identified in the wood charcoal assemblages are thermophilous Mediterranean elements, most of them evergreen broad-leaved. The assemblages show that the most frequent taxon is the olive, followed by the prickly oak, the Fabaceae, and the heather. In most assemblages mock privet/buckthorn, strawberry tree, the pear and Prunus family species are present, while Aleppo pine, lentisc, the fig, and the carob trees are less frequent. Olive cultivation was an important economic activity during the whole life of the sanctuary and probably olive pruning constantly provided the sanctuary with fuel. The woodland would be the additional source of firewood for the sanctuary’s needs for fuel for mundane activities such as heating and cooking, for more formal ones, such as sacrifice, but also for industrial activities such as tile firing. Activities related to the reorganization of space and the expansion of the sanctuary may be reflected in charcoal of carpentry by-products as the fir, cypress, and maybe pine remains.

scholarly journals Stable Carbon and Sulfur Isotope Characteristics of Stream Water in a Typical Karst Small Catchment, Southwest China

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 523
Author(s):  
Yang Tang ◽  
Ruiyin Han
Keyword(s):  
Water Samples ◽  
Chemical Weathering ◽  
Stream Water ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Small Catchment ◽  
Temperature And Precipitation ◽  
Δ13c Value ◽  
Different Seasons ◽  
Sources Of Solutes ◽  
Surface Water Samples

Surface water samples from the Maolan National Natural Reserved Park (MNNRP) were analyzed from Sept. 2013 to June 2014, for major ion concentrations (K+, Na+, Ca2+, Mg2+, Cl−, SO42−, HCO3−), δ13C-DIC and δ34S-SO42− to quantify the sources of solutes and chemical weathering. The results show that HCO3− and SO42− are the main anions in Banzhai watershed, which account for 86.2 and 10.4% of the total anion equivalent, respectively. While Ca2+ and Mg2+ account for 76.9 and 20.5%, respectively. Considerable Mg2+ in stream water indicates that it may be affected by dolomite weathering. stream water samples present the δ13C-DIC values in the range of −16.9‰~−10.8‰ (mean value was −13.9‰), which were lower than that of the groundwater. The δ34S-SO42− values ranged from −15.2‰ to 1.7‰ (mean value was −4.4‰). There was a negative correlation between HCO3− content and δ13C value, implying the result of the interaction of temperature and precipitation intensity in different seasons. The significant positive correlation between SO42− content and δ13C-DIC indicates that H2SO4 may be involved in the weathering process of carbonate rocks in small watershed scale. The content of SO42− in a school sample site was much higher than that of other sample sites for the interference from human sources. The δ34S values show that the average δ34S-SO42− in most sites is close to the δ34S isotopic values of Guizhou coal and rain, indicating that they may be affected by local coal.

The side-effects of plant protection products used in olive cultivation on the hymenopterous egg parasitoid Trichogramma cacoeciae Marchal

2004 ◽  
Vol 128 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 593-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. I. Youssef ◽  
F. N. Nasr ◽  
S. S. Stefanos ◽  
S. S. A. Elkhair ◽  
W. A. Shehata ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Plant Protection ◽  
Plant Protection Products ◽  
Egg Parasitoid ◽  
Trichogramma Cacoeciae ◽  
Olive Cultivation

Nitrate leaching from a small catchment in central England

1996 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 181-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.M. Cooper ◽  
G. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Nitrate Leaching ◽  
Small Catchment

Variation of phosphorus loss from a small Catchment in south Devon, UK

2000 ◽  
Vol 79 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 143-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard McDowell ◽  
Stephen Trudgill
Keyword(s):  
Small Catchment ◽  
Phosphorus Loss
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