upland environment
1Upland rice — is rice grown on dry soil. Most rice is grown in flooded rice paddies. Introduction Nearly 100 million people now depend on upland rice as their daily staple food. Almost two thirds of the upland rice area is in Asia. Bangladesh, Cambodia, China …
2submerged-upland soil — Mineral or organic soil that primarily formed in a subaerial setting but is now under water, commonly in intertidal or subaqueous settings. Inundation could occur for various reasons (e.g., sea level rise in a marine or estuarine system or… …
3pre-Columbian civilizations — Introduction the aboriginal American Indian (Mesoamerican Indian) cultures that evolved in Meso America (part of Mexico and Central America) and the Andean region (western South America) prior to Spanish exploration and conquest in the 16th …
4Laotian society — is above all else characterized by semi independent rural villages engaged in subsistence agricultural production. Ethnic, geographic, and ecological differences create variations in the pattern of village life from one part of the country to… …
5England Rural Development Programme — is the instrument by which the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) fulfills its rural development obligations in England, as set out by the European Union. It is derived primarily from Council Regulation European Union… …
6Dinosaur paleobiogeography — is the study of dinosaur geographic distribution, based on evidence in the fossil record. Late Cretaceous North America Centrosaurus apertus. Thomas M. Lehman, in a study of Late Cretaceous dinosaur distribution, concluded that they were… …
7Sonoma Coast State Beach — is a State of California property in Sonoma County consisting of public access use on lands adjoining the Pacific Ocean. coord|38|22|8.39|N|123|4|25.28|W| This extent of beach runs from a coastal point about convert|4|mi|km|0|lk=on north of… …
8Mountaineering Council of Scotland — The Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) is the national representative body in Scotland that exists to protect the freedoms and promote the interests of climbers, hillwalkers and mountaineers, including ski mountaineers. Its headquarters… …
9Subaqueous soil — Subaqueous Soils are soils that form in sediment found in shallow permanently flooded environments. Excluded from the definition of these soils are any areas “permanently covered by water too deep (typically greater than 2.5 m) for the growth of… …
10Goat Rock Beach — [ Russian River at the Pacific Ocean.] Goat Rock Beach is a sand beach in northwestern Sonoma County, California, United States.This landform is a sub unit of Sonoma Coast State Beach, owned and managed by the State of California. At the northern …
