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Browsing by Author "Heatwole Shenk, Cheryl B."

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    Conservation agriculture and ecosystem services
    Dillaha, Theo A. III; Heatwole Shenk, Cheryl B.; Moore, Keith M. (American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2010)
    Conservation agriculture has many agricultural and food security benefits. In addition, conservation agriculture has potential on- and off-site ecosystem service benefits that are the focus of this paper. Ecosystem services provided by conservation agriculture fall into three main categories: provisioning services such as increased food production; regulating services such as carbon sequestration and climate regulation, reducing losses of soil, pesticides, nutrients and other potential contaminants in surface and subsurface water flows, and water cycle improvements; and supporting services such as nutrient and storage and cycling. This paper focuses on the regulating service benefits of conservation agriculture: erosion control, reduced losses of pesticides and nutrients, and particularly water cycle benefits including increased water productivity (more crop per drop), infiltration, percolation, plant available water storage, groundwater recharge, plant available water, and stream baseflow and decreases in peak stream flows and downstream flooding.
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    Publishing your research in the SANREM Knowledgebase (SKB)
    Heatwole Shenk, Cheryl B.; Moore, L. (Blacksburg, VA: SANREM CRSP, OIRED, Virginia Tech, 2010)
    This presentation explores the purpose and progress of the SANREM Knowledgebase (SKB) as well as steps on how to make a correct entry into the SKB. This database has a dual purpose of making information resources readily available for researchers and developers, and to provide a searchable catalog for all of the SANREM productions. Over 3,000 different resources related to sustainable agriculture and natural resource management are available in the SKB. Recent efforts have attempted to make this database a valuable source of information for those researching conservation agriculture.
  • SANREM CRSP Knowledgebase
    Heatwole Shenk, Cheryl B. (2008)
    This poster presentation on the SANREM CRSP (Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program) Knowledgebase (SKB) describes its purpose, structure and function. The poster explains the steps of entry creation, entry review, and querying the SKB. Also included are descriptions of the Payments for Environmental Services (PES) Knowledgebase, the Gender and Development Knowledgebase, and the information technology development of the SKB.
  • SANREM knowledgebase metadata guide: Version 1
    Heatwole, Conrad D.; Obenhaus, M.; Heatwole Shenk, Cheryl B.; Dillaha, Theo A. III; Moore, Keith M. (Blacksburg, Va.: SANREM CRSP, OIRED, Virginia Tech, 2006)
    This document describes the purpose, content, and format of the metadata that defines the contents of the SANREM Knowledgebase. The SANREM Knowledgebase (SKB) is a catalog of information resources specific to the SANREM project as well as catalog and archive other resources and projects that relate to sustainable agriculture and natural resource management. The overall goal is to make these resources readily available to facilitate the wide and effective dissemination of information and to provide a structure for effective search and retrieval of the resources.
  • SANREM knowledgebase metadata guide: Version 2
    Heatwole, Conrad D.; Obenhaus, M.; Heatwole Shenk, Cheryl B.; Dillaha, Theo A. III; Moore, Keith M. (Blacksburg, Va.: SANREM CRSP, OIRED, Virginia Tech, 2006)
    This document describes the purpose, content, and format of the metadata that defines the contents of the SANREM Knowledgebase. The SANREM Knowledgebase (SKB) is a catalog of information resources specific to the SANREM project as well as catalog and archive other resources and projects that relate to sustainable agriculture and natural resource management. The overall goal is to make these resources readily available to facilitate the wide and effective dissemination of information and to provide a structure for effective search and retrieval of the resources.
  • SANREM knowledgebase metadata guide: Version 3
    Heatwole, Conrad D.; Heatwole Shenk, Cheryl B.; Obenhaus, M.; Dillaha, Theo A. III; Moore, Keith M.; Breakiron, S. (Blacksburg, Va.: SANREM CRSP, OIRED, Virginia Tech, 2007)
    This document describes the purpose, content, and format of the metadata that defines the contents of the SANREM Knowledgebase. The SANREM Knowledgebase (SKB) is a catalog of information resources specific to the SANREM project as well as catalog and archive other resources and projects that relate to sustainable agriculture and natural resource management. The overall goal is to make these resources readily available to facilitate the wide and effective dissemination of information and to provide a structure for effective search and retrieval of the resources.
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    SANREM knowledgebase metadata guide: Version 4
    Heatwole Shenk, Cheryl B.; Lamb, Jennifer Nicole (Blacksburg, VA: SANREM CRSP, OIRED, Virginia Tech, 2009)
    This document describes the purpose, content, and format of the metadata that defines the contents of the SANREM Knowledgebase. The SANREM Knowledgebase (SKB) is a catalog of information resources specific to the SANREM project as well as catalog and archive other resources and projects that relate to sustainable agriculture and natural resource management. The overall goal is to make these resources readily available to facilitate the wide and effective dissemination of information and to provide a structure for effective search and retrieval of the resources.