riparian rights
System of water law that gives anyone whose land adjoins a flowing stream the right to use water from the stream, as long as some is left for downstream users. Compare prior appropriation.
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Chapter 13 - Food Resources
rangeland
Land that supplies forage or vegetation (grasses, grasslike plants, and shrubs) for grazing and browsing animals and is not intensively managed. Compare feedlot, pasture.
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Primary productivity
See gross primary productivity, net primary productivity.
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polyvarietal
Planting a plot of land with several varieties of the same crop. Compare cultivation intercropping, monoculture, polyculture.
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polyculture
Complex form of intercropping in which a large number of different plants maturing at different times are planted together. See also intercropping. Compare monoculture, polyvarietal cultivation.
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Plantation agriculture
Growing specialized crops such as bananas, coffee, and cacao in tropical developing countries, primarily for sale to developed countries.
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perennial
Plant that can live for more than 2 years. Compare annual.
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pasture
Managed grassland or enclosed meadow that usually is planted with domesticated grasses or other forage to be grazed by livestock. Compare feedlot, rangeland.
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over nutrition
Diet so high in calories, saturated (animal) fats, salt, sugar, and processed foods and so low in vegetables and fruits that the consumer runs high risks of diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and other health hazards. Compare malnutrition, under nutrition.
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overgrazing
Destruction of vegetation when too many grazing animals feed too long and exceed the carrying capacity of a rangeland or pasture area.
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