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Intercrop

A crop grown amidst a main crop or in between the planting rows of that main crop and intended to be harvested or to be supportive to the harvest of the main crop.

Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis

A theory in ecology which states that the highest levels of diversity are supported at intermediate levels of disturbance (frequency or intensity).

Inventory

The systematic acquisition of resource information needed for planning and management.

Ion

Electrically charged atom or group of atoms.

IPR

Intellectual Property Rights.

Irrigation

Application of water to soils to assist in production of crops.

K, potash

K2O K x 1,20 = K2O

Karst

Topography with sinkholes, caves and underground drainage that is formed in limestone, gypsum or other rocks by dissolution (dissolving).

Keystone species

A species which, if removed from an ecosystem, causes a dramatic change in the system, and which has been proposed as an indicator of the functional capacity of the system.

Land cover

The observed (bio)physical cover of the Earth's surface. The main classes in the LUCAS land cover nomenclature are as follows (http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/other_documents/lucas/index.htm): artificial land, cropland, woodland, shrubland, grasland, bareland, water, wetland.
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