| 词条 | Marginal land |
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Marginal lands can therefore be more difficult to delineate as compared to "abandoned crop lands" which reflect more clearly definable landowner-initiated land use changes.[4] Land may be marginal for a number of reasons, including poor water supply, poor soil quality, pollution from previous industrial activities, terrain challenges such as excessive slope, or excessive distance from means of transportation.[5] Marginal land is not entirely useless for human purposes. For example, certain breeds of free-roaming livestock, such as the English Leicester sheep, are able to forage on such land. There are also some plants that can be grown in land that would be considered marginal for most agricultural uses. For example, cucurbita foetidissima, the buffalo gourd, is well adapted to marginal agricultural lands such as sandy loam soils which have to be well-drained.[6][7] Land that is marginal for conventional row-crop production is often well-suited to perennial crops,[8] including low-input crops grown as bioenergy or bioproduct feedtocks such as switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), shrub willow (Salix spp.), and giant miscanthus (Miscanthus x giganteus), allowing production of these crops without inducing competition for prime farmlands. References1. ^William Baumol, Alan Blinder, Economics: Principles and Policy (2011), p. 409. 2. ^{{Cite journal|last=Peterson|first=GM|last2=Galbraith|first2=J|year=1932|title=The concept of marginal land|url=|journal=Journal of Farm Economics|volume=14 |issue=2|pages=295–310|via=|doi=10.2307/1230112|jstor=1230112}} 3. ^1 {{Cite journal|last=Richards|first=BK|last2=Stoof|first2=CR|last3=Cary|first3=IJ|last4=Woodbury|first4=PB|year=2014|title=Reporting on marginal lands for bioenergy feedstock production – a modest proposal|url=|journal=BioEnergy Research|volume=7|issue=3|pages=1060–1062|doi=10.1007/s12155-014-9408-x|via=|citeseerx=10.1.1.667.4930}} 4. ^Baxter, Ryan E., Kirby E. Calvert. (2017). Estimating Available Abandoned Cropland in the United States: Possibilities for Energy Crop Production Annals of the American Association of Geographers 107(5)1162-1178. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2017.1298985 5. ^David Pimentel, Global Economic and Environmental Aspects of Biofuels (2012), p. 92. 6. ^{{cite book |first=J. |last=Bemis |title=Underexploited Tropical Plants with Promising Economic Value |publisher=National Research Council |date=1975 |pages=94–99 |isbn=978-0-89499-186-8 }} 7. ^{{cite journal |first1=J. |last1=Nelson |first2=J. |last2=Scheerens |first3=D. |last3=Bucks |first4=J. |last4=Berry |date=1989 |title=Irrigation Effects on Water Use, and Production of Tap Roots and Starch of Buffalo Gourd |journal=Agronomy Journal |volume=81 |issue=3 |pages=439–442 |doi=10.2134/agronj1989.00021962008100030008x }} 8. ^{{Cite journal|last=Stoof|first=CR|last2=Richards|first2=BK|last3=Woodbury|first3=PB|year=2015|title=Untapped potential: Opportunities and challenges for sustainable bioenergy production from marginal lands in New York and the Northeast USA|url=|journal=BioEnergy Research|volume=8|issue=2|pages=482–501|doi=10.1007/s12155-014-9515-8|via=}} 1 : Agricultural land |
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