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Traditional utilization of weeds and ethnic ecological wisdom in Longsheng terraces-a study based on globally important agricultural heritage systems. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed
Ma W, Zeng Y, Zhou J, Hu R, Liu H, Liu Y.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Highlights of agricultural research, Vol.35, no. 3, Fall 1988

, 1988
Bibliography of agriculture, 0006-1530. Chemical abstracts, 0009-2258. Cover title. Also available on microfilm from: Spaulding: Graphic Microfilm Division under title: State agricultural ...
Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
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Urban oases relax desiccation risk for an arid‐adapted lizard

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Urbanization from expanding human development has radically altered the structure, ecology and microclimate of landscapes worldwide. These dramatic environmental alterations subject organisms to novel ecological conditions and may select for distinct ecophysiological ...
Tucker C. Heptinstall, Savannah J. Weaver, Rory Mendelow, David J. Stroud, Sara Ahlich, Tanmayi Patharkar, Annika Pohlo, Emily N. Taylor, Kinsey M. Brock   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Terracing influences soil microbial assembly in citrus orchards: stochastic processes dominate community dynamics in a karst sloping land. [PDF]

BMC Microbiol
Zhang J, Dai Y, Mustafa A, Li L, Li Y, Sun T, Chen M, Yang H, Ma J.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Varying hydraulic strategies within leaves, stems and roots of coexisting desert shrubs

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Effective and continuous root‐to‐leaf hydraulic transport is crucial for plant survival and growth during drought. However, the capacity to resist hydraulic dysfunction remains understudied in leaves and roots, especially for desert shrubs.
Wenyue Zhao, Xibin Ji, Rui Chen, Lishan Shan, Hai Zhou, Bowen Jin, Liwen Zhao, Dongsheng Li   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of farmers' adoption of soil and water conservation practices in northeastern Ethiopia. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Wasie D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

Humans can rebuild severely eroded resilience: Demo with millennia-long records in China's Loess Plateau. [PDF]

PNAS Nexus
Zhang XJ, Chen J, Liu G.
europepmc   +1 more source

AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
wiley   +1 more source

Impacts of mechanized farmland transformation on ecological landscape patterns in hilly regions of Zhong County, China. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Xv X, Ren J, Ming Y.
europepmc   +1 more source