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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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Wendi Shen, Lili An, Xin Xu, Feng Yan and Ruihua Dai
Harmful cyanobacterial blooms pose a serious environmental threat to global water ecology and drinking water safety. Microcystis aeruginosa, a dominant cyanobacterial species in cyanobacterial blooms, was removed using the electro-flocculation?electro-Fe...
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Leszek Majchrzak, Hubert Waligóra, Bogna Zawieja, Robert Idziak and Piotr Szulc
This paper focuses on the weed species Echinochloa crus-galli, commonly known as barnyardgrass, which is a persistent threat to crop yield and quality, especially in maize (Zea mays) cultivation. It is one of the most problematic weeds in agricultural fi...
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Alexander Gaffke, Maritza Romero and Hans Alborn
Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs), small soil-dwelling non-segmented roundworms, are obligate parasites of insects and commonly used in agriculture for biological control of insect pests. For successful reproduction, EPNs must identify, move towards, and...
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Anna Altmanninger, Verena Brandmaier, Bernhard Spangl, Edith Gruber, Eszter Takács, Mária Mörtl, Szandra Klátyik, András Székács and Johann G. Zaller
Glyphosate is the most widely used active ingredient (AI) in glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) worldwide and is also known to affect a variety of soil organisms. However, we know little about how the effects of glyphosate AIs differ from those of GBHs t...
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Jakub Dobrzynski, Barbara Wróbel and Ewa Beata Górska
Bacteria of the genus Bacillus and related genera (e.g., Paenibacillus, Alicyclobacillus or Brevibacillus) belong to the phylum Firmicutes. Taxonomically, it is a diverse group of bacteria that, to date, has not been well described phylogenetically. The ...
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Xihua Wang, Shunqing Jia, Zejun Liu and Boyang Mao
Nitrate pollution in groundwater has become a global concern for agriculture and regional ecology. However, tracing the spatiotemporal groundwater nitrate pollution sources, calculating the total nitrogen loading, and assessing contamination at the water...
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Po-Hsin Mao, Ta Cong Khiem, Eilhann Kwon, Hou-Chien Chang, Ha Manh Bui, Xiaoguang Duan, Hongta Yang, Suresh Ghotekar, Wei-Hsin Chen, Yu-Chih Tsai and Kun-Yi Andrew Lin
Bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)methanone (BHPM), a common ultraviolet stabilizer and filter (USF), is extensively added in sunscreens; however, BHPM is proven as an endocrine disruptor, posing a serious threat to aquatic ecology, and BHPM should be then removed. As...
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Laurissa C. Heidkamp and Alan D. Christian
Land use land cover within a watershed influences stream water quality, habitat quality, and biological community structure. As development and associated impervious surface increases in a watershed, changes in storm water and nutrient inputs generally c...
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Mmabaledi Buxton, Malebogo Portia Buxton, Honest Machekano, Casper Nyamukondiwa and Ryan John Wasserman
Arthropod vectors play a crucial role in the transmission of many debilitating infections, causing significant morbidity and mortality globally. Despite the economic significance of arthropods to public health, public knowledge on vector biology, ecology...
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