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Qibo Tao, Jiayi Xing, Fansheng Meng, Yaqi Zhang, Xinyu Liu, Shuo Guo, Ye Shan, Shangzhi Zhong, Juan Sun and Yanhua Zhao
Seed vigor is an important aspect of seed quality. It is critical to predict seed vigor and plant seedling emergence under diverse environmental conditions using the laboratory vigor test. Accordingly, laboratory experiments were conducted to determine t...
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Natalia Torres-Pagán, Marta Muñoz, Sara Barbero, Roberta Mamone, Rosa Peiró, Alessandra Carrubba, Adela M. Sánchez-Moreiras, Diego Gómez de Barreda and Mercedes Verdeguer
In recent years, interest in natural products with herbicidal activity as new tools for integrated weed management has increased. The European Union is demanding a reduction in the number of herbicides used, forbidding use of the most toxic ones, despite...
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Laura Guimarães, António Paulo Carvalho, Pedro Ribeiro, Cláudia Teixeira, Nuno Silva, André Pereira, João Amorim and Luís Oliva-Teles
Triops longicaudatus is a crustacean typically inhabiting temporary freshwater bodies in regions with a Mediterranean climate. These crustaceans are easily maintained in the laboratory and show a set of biological features that make them good candidates ...
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Mihai-Junior Torcatoru and Maria Cristina Timar
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Shanshan Jiang, Hui Li, Hainuo Wang, Xiaoxia Liu and Kongming Wu
Wheat aphids are major pests of wheat and a significant threat to global food security. Eupeodes corollae Fabricius is one of the dominant species of wheat field hoverflies, but its ability and role in wheat aphid control lack systematic research. This s...
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Amged El-Harairy, Júlia Katalin Jósvai, Ahmed El-Harairy and Alaa Mahfouz
In ant-aphid interactions, various aphid species offer honeydew to the ant partner and increase their density by ant attendance, whilst others never attend ant species, in which case ants tend to treat them as prey. In this regard, ants should have the a...
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Tanja Trakic, Filip Popovic, Jovana Sekulic and Davorka K. Hackenberger
As soil invertebrates with a unique digestive system, earthworms are regularly used as bioindicators and test organisms. Due to their burrowing activity and casting, earthworms are involved in the structuring of the soil. However, this way of life expose...
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Bo Wang, Lingxi Luo, Liyong Mei and Hui Zeng
The Danjiangkou Reservoir supplies drinking water to most residents in northern China. However, signs of eutrophication have been observed in the inlet tributaries of the reservoir, including the Shending River backwater. This research used data from the...
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Lucrezia Cilenti, Nicola Lago, Antonio Oscar Lillo, Daniel Li Veli, Tommaso Scirocco and Giorgio Mancinelli
The current invasion of the Mediterranean Sea by the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus requires the implementation of effective strategies of control and management. In native areas, the species is highly appreciated as a hard- and soft-shell seafoo...
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Dae-Won Lee, Sung-Yong Oh, Jordan Jun Chul Park, Yun-Hwan Jung, Han-Jun Kim, Dong Mun Choi, Young-Ung Choi and Jeonghoon Han
Owing to the constant wind generated by the vast ocean, energy production from offshore wind farms (OWFs) plays an important role in the expansion of renewable energy. However, areas close to large wind farms are often left unutilized, and aquaculture fa...
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