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Zoo Biology, EarlyView.Betsiboka, a female red ruffed lemur (Varecia rubra) eating Carolina redroot in the Tower forest. ABSTRACT Lemurs are severely threatened due to anthropogenic habitat loss and climate change. Therefore, understanding how lemurs adapt their diets to novel habitats is critically important for maintaining healthy wild populations and effectively managing ...
Ethan Gulledge +7 more
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Adaptation of the invasive pest Drosophila suzukii to a specialized nutritional niche
Insect Science, EarlyView.Unlike most Drosophila larvae that feed on spoiled food, Drosophila suzukii larvae thrive on ripening fruits and consequently face a low‐protein, high‐carbohydrate nutritional challenge. Comparisons of growth among D. suzukii, D. biarmipes, and D. melanogaster larvae across diets with varying protein‐to‐carbohydrate ratios demonstrate that D.
Yan Hou, Ying Zhen
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EFFICIENT MARKETING OF BLUEBERRIES IN MISSISSIPPI AND LOUISIANA
Fresh blueberries are sold through a marketing cooperative of the blueberry industry in Mississippi and Louisiana. Blueberry producers have numerous alternatives in assembling blueberries, and the cooperative needs to know the costs of different systems ...
Allen, Albert J., Muhammad, Safdar
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, 2016 Little Sal and her Mother spend an afternoon picking blueberries on Blueberry Hill. Sal finds the blueberries delicious and ends up eating more than she puts in her pail. After walking and picking for a while, Sal gets tired and sits to rest and eat more
Troxel, Chelsie
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Effects of drying on anthocyanins in blueberries
, 2007 Blueberries are well known for their high anthocyanin content and the health benefits. Fresh blueberries have limited shelf life and thus are kept frozen or processed.
Lohachoompol, Virachnee
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Ants contribute to raspberry pollination in protected cropping systems
Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.Ants visited raspberry flowers more frequently than European honey bees (Apis mellifera), Australian stingless bees (Tetragonula carbonaria) and flies, many transporting raspberry pollen on their bodies, indicating potential pollination capacity. Ants were active flower visitors at most times of the day and may extend the daily pollination window and ...
Pia Malm +6 more
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Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.We extracted pollen from colony beeswax to quantify season‐long, colony‐level resource use and tested how managed Bombus impatiens visitation and Rosaceae pollen collection relate to landscape context and strawberry pollination. Increased managed bumble bee visitation was not influenced by surrounding landcover, did not reduce pollen limitation and ...
Leeah I. Richardson +6 more
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TOWARD A MARKETING STRATEGY FOR FRESH WILD BLUEBERRIES IN THE NORTHEAST
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Leiby, James D. +2 more
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Effects of preconditioning on quality of dried blueberries
, 2010 Blueberries are a rich source of phenolic compounds, especially anthocyanins, which contributes to their high level of antioxidant activity. However, these compounds of significant health benefit will be degraded after the blueberries undergo various air
Srzednicki, G. +7 more
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The Outsiders: Principled Withdrawal, Whiteness, and Power in the Los Angeles Food Justice Movement
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article draws on understandings of whiteness and the misconstrual of South Central Los Angeles to analyze the power dynamics between “outsider” activists and residents of South Central as they worked toward a more equitable food system.
Hanna Garth
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