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Salvatore Ceccarelli and Stefania Grando
This review paper addresses the importance of increasing agrobiodiversity to cope with climate change and, at the same time, providing a sufficient amount of healthy food. This is in agreement with the messages from ecology and medicine indicating the ad...
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Jingming Wu, Tiecheng Bai and Xu Li
Chlorophyll content is highly susceptible to environmental changes, and monitoring these changes can be a crucial tool for optimizing crop management and providing a foundation for research in plant physiology and ecology. This is expected to deepen our ...
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Shuaibo Shao, Yuanping Li, Zhongwei Li, Xiaoxiao Ma, Yanqi Zhu, Yuqing Luo, Pumo Cai, Xiaoli Jia, Christopher Rensing and Qisong Li
This study focused on examining the early stages of tea cultivation (1, 3, and 5 years) in mountainous tea plantations. It specifically aimed to investigate the changes in soil micro-ecology at different locations (inter-row, terrace surfaces, and terrac...
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John T. Van Stan II and Juan Pinos
Plant canopies divert a portion of precipitation to the base of their stems through ?stemflow?, a phenomenon that influences the canopy water balance, soil microbial ecology, and intrasystem nutrient cycling. However, a comprehensive integration of stemf...
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José Ramón Arévalo, Juan A. Encina-Domínguez, Cristina González-Montelongo, Miguel Mellado and Arturo Cruz-Anaya
Grasslands and pastures are extensively studied due to their geographic variation, species richness, ecological functioning, and economic importance. They are vital components of land use in many parts of the world. The impact of grassland management on ...
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Igor Yudaev, Yuliia Daus, Vladimir Panchenko and Vadim Bolshev
Due to the emerging danger to the life of animals and people, today there is a turn to safe technologies for controlling weeds by physical methods, both from the point of view of ecology and food safety, which include the destruction of plants using an e...
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Sara Agostini, Francesco Moriconi, Mauro Zampirolli, Diego Padoan, Laura Treu, Stefano Campanaro and Lorenzo Favaro
The knowledge of the microbiome in the anaerobic digestion (AD) is critical for stabilizing the process and optimizing the biogas yield. This work investigates the microbial ecology in four full-scale biogas plants with different feedstocks and process p...
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George L. Vourlitis, Emma Lousie van der Veen, Sebastian Cangahuala, Garrett Jaeger, Colin Jensen, Cinzia Fissore, Eric M. Wood, Joel K. Abraham, Kevin S. Whittemore, Elijah Slaven, Dustin VanOverbeke, James Blauth, Elizabeth Braker, Nina Karnovsky and Wallace M. Meyer III
Urban landscaping conversions can alter decomposition processes and soil respiration, making it difficult to forecast regional CO2 emissions. Here we explore rates of initial mass loss and net nitrogen (N) mineralization in natural and four common urban ...
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Xianglong Tang, Tianfeng Wei, Yueming He and Kun He
As the primary component of urban green space, parks play an important role in improving local environments and quality of life for city inhabitants. To date, much research on urban park plant community characteristics has been conducted worldwide, but s...
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Wojciech Halicki and Michal Halicki
Natural Treatment Systems for Wastewater (NTSW) show great potential for economic, socially acceptable and environmentally friendly wastewater treatment, along with the renewal of water for its safe reuse. This article presents the reduction in nitrogen ...
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