SLM Database

Manuring and composting - amendment with chicken manure. Chicken manure as organic matter derived from animal (chicken), which can be used as organic fertilizer in agriculture.

• Compiler: Magdalena Frac
• 06/27/2017 12:49 nm.

No-till is a system where crops are planted into the soil without primary tillage.

• Compiler: Magdalena Frac
• 06/29/2017 12:04 vm.

Hydromulch is spread immediately after a wildfire in order to reduce overland flow and prevent soil erosion.

• Compiler: Sergio Prats Alegre Prats
• 05/23/2013 6:52 nm.

Forest residue mulch is spread immediately after a wildfire in order to prevent soil erosion and reduce overland flow.

• Compiler: Sergio Prats Alegre Prats
• 04/25/2013 3:39 nm.

Use of prescribed fire (or ‘controlled burn’) to reduce the fuel load in the form of live and dead plant material and thus to prevent the likelihood of more damaging wildfire.

• Compiler: Manuela Carreiras
• 07/01/2011 9:25 vm.

In certain situations, the leaves from the burnt trees created a natural carpet that protect the soil from being eroded.

• Compiler: Sergio Prats Alegre Prats
• 05/23/2013 6:44 nm.

Linear strips are strategically located in areas where total or partial removal of the forest biomass is possible. This technology contributes towards preventing the occurrence and spread of large forest fires and reducing their consequences for the environment, people, infrastructures, etc.

• Compiler: Celeste Coelho
• 10/28/2010 11:28 vm.

Post-fire salvage logging is the practice of harvest the trees after fire, the employed methodology is clearcutting which involves the cut of essentially all the trees and the removal of logging residues.

• Compiler: Maruxa Malvar Cortizo
• 01/26/2016 5:27 nm.

Minimum tillage in vineyards is performed in alternated inter-row zone, to promote soil decompation and maintain partial vegetation cover.

• Compiler: Carla Ferreira
• 06/30/2017 11:23 vm.