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Vadose zone flushing of fertilizer tracked by isotopes of water and nitrate

Vadose Zone Journal
A substantial fraction of nitrogen (N) fertilizer applied in agricultural systems is not incorporated into crops and moves below the rooting zone as nitrate (NO3−).
Julie N. Weitzman, J. Renée Brooks, Jana E. Compton, Barton R. Faulkner, R. Edward Peachey, William D. Rugh, Robert A. Coulombe, Blake Hatteberg, Stephen R. Hutchins   +8 more
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Designing amendments to improve plant performance for mine tailings revegetation

Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment, 2023
To provide recommendations for establishment of plants on low‐pH Formosa Mine tailings, two greenhouse experiments were conducted to evaluate the use of remedial amendments to improve the survival and growth of Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii ...
Mark G. Johnson, David M. Olszyk, Tamotsu Shiroyama, Michael A. Bollman, Maliha S. Nash, Viola A. Manning, Kristin M. Trippe, Donald W. Watts, Jeffrey M. Novak   +8 more
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Gleaning of δ15N in ecosystems and its animal-organ isotope data: perspectives for the construction of the isotopically ordered world

Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
To date, empirical relationships have been observed for the distributions and variations of stable nitrogen and carbon isotope ratios (δ15N and δ13C, respectively) in ecosystems as well as in living organisms.
Eitaro Wada, Yoshihisa Kudo, Hiroshi Mizutani, Hiroshi Minami, Kenji Matsubara, Yoshihiro Yamada, Nanako O. Ogawa, Yukihiro Kohmatsu, Naoko Nishizawa, Isamu Shimizu, Reiichiro Ishii, Fujio Hyodo, Maki N. Aita, Wataru Sakamoto, Naohiko Ohkouchi   +14 more
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Understanding teacher agency in implementing inclusive education policy: a mixed-methods study of private schools under India’s right to education act

Frontiers in Education
Teacher agency has emerged as a critical factor in educational reform, yet research remains heavily concentrated in Western contexts with limited attention to how demographic and contextual factors shape teachers’ capacity to serve diverse student ...
Tarang Tripathi
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Modelling EFL Teachers’ Emotion Regulation in Relation to the Ecological Framework of Agency and Autonomy [PDF]

Applied Research on English Language
Teaching has recently received extensive attention as an emotionally charged profession, necessitating a deeper exploration of the psychological mechanisms underlying teachers’ practices.
Mohammad Mahdi Hajmalek, Mahtab Madani
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CeO2 nanoparticle dose and exposure modulate soybean development and plant-mediated responses in root-associated bacterial communities

Scientific Reports
Agricultural soils are increasingly undergoing inadvertent and purposeful exposures to engineered CeO2 nanoparticles (NPs), which can impact crops and root-associated microbial communities.
Jay R. Reichman, Matthew R. Slattery, Mark G. Johnson, Christian P. Andersen, Stacey L. Harper   +4 more
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Integrated trophic position decreases in more diverse communities of stream food webs

Scientific Reports, 2017
The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is an important theme in environmental sciences. We propose a new index for configuration of the biomass pyramid in an ecosystem, named integrated trophic position (iTP).
Naoto F. Ishikawa, Yoshito Chikaraishi, Naohiko Ohkouchi, Aya R. Murakami, Ichiro Tayasu, Hiroyuki Togashi, Jun-ichi Okano, Yoichiro Sakai, Tomoya Iwata, Michio Kondoh, Noboru Okuda   +10 more
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Field-based assessments of the seasonality of Culex pipiens sensu lato in England: an important enzootic vector of Usutu and West Nile viruses

Parasites & Vectors
Background Usutu virus (USUV), which is closely related to West Nile virus (WNV), sharing a similar ecology and transmission cycle, was first reported in the UK in the southeast of England in 2020.
Nicola Seechurn, M. Trent Herdman, Arturo Hernandez-Colina, Alexander G. C. Vaux, Colin Johnston, Morgan Berrell, Javier Lopez, Lindsay Eckley, Merit Gonzalez-Olvera, Lisa Gillespie, Paul Pearce Kelly, Matthew Baylis, Jolyon M. Medlock   +12 more
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EFL teachers’ agency in Chinese universities against the backdrop of “Curriculum Ideology and Politics”—an ecological perspective

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
As a language education policy, Curriculum Ideology and Politics (CIP) has constructed an ecological environment for teacher agency. From the ecological perspective, this study explores the manifestations of and influencing factors in university EFL ...
Tingqun Zhang, Yuhong Wang, Zhanhao Jiang   +2 more
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Nature Speaks: Agency and Environment in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road

Arbitrer
This study explores the linguistic strategies in Ben Okri’s “The Famished Road” to construct ecological interdependencies and agency in the novel.
Olarotimi Ogungbemi
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