Monitoring of agricultural dominated catchments in Norway and the Heilongjiang province, China: similarities and challenges.

This paper summarises environmental monitoring activities and small plot research in agriculture as practiced in the Heilongjiang province located northeast in China and in Norway. For both countries, there is a need to recommend efficient mitigation measures to farmers and monitor the environmental effect of agricultural systems and management practices. Climate change scenarios predict changes in precipitation which potentially can influence agricultural practices as well as lead to changes in run-off and related to land use as well as the environment losses. As such, cooperation in the further development of monitoring programmes and related techniques will be useful in documenting both present and future, climate change-induced changes, related land use as well as the environmental. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]