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Foraging Behavior of Tetramorium Caespitum in an Urban Environment: the Effect of Food Quality on Foraging [PDF]

, 2016
Animals\u27 foraging strategies are directly related to their fitness. Proposed models of optimal foraging assume that animals strategize in terms of maximizing benefits over the cost of acquiring resources. Ants are social insects that are comparable in
Crofton, Nicole A., D\u27Mello, Sabrina R., Sy, Nene S.   +2 more
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community abundance, functions, and symbiotic interactions revealed by root metatranscriptomes

iMetaOmics, EarlyView.
Paradigm shift: PCR‐free methods reveal 6–15‐fold higher arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal abundance than metabarcoding, exposing systematic underestimation across decades of research. Predictive power: AM fungal abundance serves as a community‐level trait that predicts crop yield under drought conditions.
Peilin Chen, John W. Taylor, Cheng Gao
wiley   +1 more source

Mulching Increases Water Use Efficiency, Production and Profitability in Forage Cactus–Maize Intercropping Systems

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study evaluated the growth, forage production, soil water balance, water indices, biological efficiency and competitive capacity of forage cactus and maize in monoculture and intercropping, with or without mulch. The experiment was conducted in Serra Talhada, Pernambuco, Brazil, using the cactus clone ‘Orelha de Elefante Mexicana’ (OEM ...
Kaique Renan da Silva Salvador, Mário Adriano Ávila Queiroz, Cleber Pereira Alves, José Edson Florentino de Morais, Carlos André Alves de Souza, Agda Raiany Mota dos Santos, Ênio Gomes Flôr Souza, Jose Madson da Silva, Fabiano Barbosa de Souza Prates, Randerson Cavalcante Silva, Adriano do Nascimento Simões, Hugo Rafael Bentzen Santos, Luciana Sandra Bastos de Souza, Thieres George Freire da Silva   +13 more
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Effect of cylindrical cutting blades and travelling speeds on the performance of sweet sorghum harvesting equipment [PDF]

Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 2014
This research aim sat developing harvesting equipment with cylindrical cutter for sweet sorghum harvesting. Vertical centrifugal blade mechanism is commonly used in forage harvesters.
Saknarin Deeyotar, Seree Wongpichet
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A SYSTEMS MODEL OF THE INDIRECT ENERGY EXPENDED IN FARM MACHINERY PRODUCTION AND USE [PDF]

Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Bradford, Garnett L., Eidman, Vernon R., Jensen, Harald R.   +2 more
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Borax Promotes Fertility of Brassica napus Better Than Other Boron Species at Suboptimal Supply

Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Continuous and sufficient boron (B) supply is essential for achieving maximum yield in Brassica napus. Increasing incidences of environmental water limitation are linked to reduced plant B availability and increased B deficiencies.
Jiline B. Tölle, Thomas D. Alcock, Gerd Patrick Bienert   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reconstructing post‐crisis recovery in the hinterlands of Constantinople: A high‐resolution first‐millennium CE pollen record from Lake Yeniçağa (NW Türkiye)

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Facing a novel plague pandemic, military invasions, and political–economic transformations, societies of the eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire had to adapt to a variety of pressures and new ways of exploiting their natural environments during the mid‐1st millennium CE.
Cristiano Vignola, Mustafa Doğan, Warren Eastwood, John Haldon, Alessia Masi, Neil Roberts, Çetin Şenkul, Adam Izdebski   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managing Nitrogen and Phosphorus Nutrients for Switchgrass Produced for Bioenergy Feedstock in Phosphorus-Deficient Soil [PDF]

There is limited information available explaining the agronomic and economic relationships between yield and nitrogen and phosphorus applications to growing switchgrass produced in phosphorus-deficient soils.
Biermacher, Jon T., Guretzky, John A., Haque, Mohua, Kering, Maru K.   +3 more
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New York and Vermont Corn Silage Hybrid Trials [PDF]

, 2017
The corn silage hybrid evaluation program expanded to 77 hybrids in 2018. Hybrid evaluation at multiple environments helps in decision making and expands the reach of this type of data to more farmers.
Darby, Heather, Dineen, Michael, Fisher, Dan, Kerwin, Allison, Lawrence, Joseph, Norman, Sherrie, Overton, Thomas, Payne, Keith, Smith, Margaret, Van Amburgh, Michael, Ziegler, Sara   +10 more
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Influence of genetic diversity, drought stress and rhizobial symbiosis on the nutritional quality of common vetch (Vicia sativa L.) grain

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.
Abstract BACKGROUND Legumes are the primary source of plant protein in both human and livestock diets and, therefore, play an essential role in nutrition. Common vetch (Vicia sativa L.) is a grain legume widely used in animal feed. Its nutritional properties, particularly its high protein content, make it an adequate component to enrich feedstuffs ...
María Isabel López‐Román, Lucía De la Rosa, Cristina Castaño‐Herrero, Maria Teresa Marcos‐Prado, Elena Ramírez‐Parra   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source