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Herbivore and mesocarnivore carcasses trigger divergent short‐term changes in soil properties

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Scavengers reshape nutrient cycles in soils under carrion. Compared to herbivore carcasses, smaller but longer‐lasting carnivore remains boost nutrient levels and microbial activity in dry soils. Abstract Animal corpses act as pulses of organic matter (OM) and serve a key zoogeochemical role by providing localized nutrient inputs to soils and thereby ...
Adrián Colino‐Barea, Fuensanta García‐Orenes, Zebensui Morales‐Reyes, Moisés Gonzálvez, Carlos Martínez‐Carrasco, Marcos Moleón, Daniel Redondo‐Gómez, Evan A. N. Marks, Minerva García‐Carmona, Victoria Arcenegui, José Carlos Huerta‐del‐Bosque, Adrián Orihuela‐Torres, Santiago Soliveres, Sofia Albolafio, Esther Sebastián‐González, José Antonio Sánchez‐Zapata   +15 more
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Economic and Land Use Impacts of Synthetic Dairy Production on a Dairy‐Intensive Economy: New Technology Moo‐ving In

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Synthetic dairy products are promoted as an environmentally sustainable alternative to conventional dairy goods. This paper examines the potential economic, employment and land use impacts of large‐scale synthetic dairy production on Aotearoa New Zealand—the world's leading dairy exporter. Using a global, economy‐wide model, we simulate a case
Niven Winchester, Dominic White
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Forces Behind South Australia's Unusual Structural Changes Since 1840

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agricultural sector's share of GDP in growing economies typically declines but, for a century from the early 1850s, Australia's did not. That trend is most evident for the former colony and now State of South Australia (SA). Moreover, that share for SA has been almost flat since 1980 as well, along with the agricultural sector's share of ...
Kym Anderson
wiley   +1 more source

Scouring and dag in sheep in Western Australia: the role of parasitic nematodes and nutritional factors in diarrhoea in sheep of post-weaning age [PDF]

, 2006
Diarrhoea ("scouring") in sheep increases the risk of faecal soiling of the breech ("dag") that in turn causes significant production losses for sheep producers and increases susceptibility of sheep to breech blowfly strike. The common causes of scouring
Jacobson, Caroline
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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
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Towards a Virtual Fencing System: Training Domestic Sheep Using Audio Stimuli. [PDF]

Animals (Basel), 2022
Kleanthous N, Hussain A, Sneddon J, Khan W, Khan B, Aung Z, Liatsis P.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Molecular Detection of Giardia duodenalis in a Symptomatic Domestic Sheep Flock and Preliminary Surveillance in Wild Mouflon (Ovis gmelini ophion) in Cyprus

Parasitologia
(1) Background: Giardia duodenalis is a common protozoan parasite infecting various mammalian hosts, yet data on its prevalence in Cypriot ruminants, including the endemic and protected mouflon (Ovis gmelini ophion), remain absent.
Kyriacos A. Hasapis, Catherine O’Dowd Phanis, Chad Schou, Iris Charalambidou, Stefanie Kazamia, Eleftherios Hadjisterkotis, Nicolaos Kassinis, Panagiotis Karanis   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
wiley   +1 more source

Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
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Relationships Between HPWS, Causal Ascriptions and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour: A Cross‐Level Investigation

Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Attribution scholarship has sought to gain insights into employees' human resource attributions, or beliefs about managerial motives, to explain workplace behaviours. Yet this perspective remains confined to the front end of the cognitive process, overlooking how causal ascriptions arising from strategic HRM practices inform subsequent ...
Manh Dao, Helen Shipton, Hoa Do, Daniel King   +3 more
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