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Closed‐Loop Radiative Cooling Mulch Upcycled From Agricultural Residues for Efficient Soil Heat–Water Stress Mitigation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Conventional passive radiative cooling films rely on costly feedstocks and energy‐intensive fabrication, with poor end‐of‐life compatibility in agriculture. To address this challenge, a sustainable radiative cooling mulch (SRCM) is developed from waste maize leaves via spontaneous hydrogen‐bond self‐assembly.
Hao Li, Dong Lv, Yang Fu, Cancheng Jiang, Wenqi Wang, Ze Li, Lin Liang, Jiayu Du, Jie Tan, Yihao Zhu, Wenjie Liu, Lamfeddal Kouisni, Kaixin Lin, Chi Yan Tso   +13 more
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Forest remnants enhance wild pollinator visits to cashew flowers and mitigate pollination deficit in NE Brazil

Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2014
Pollination deficit could cause low yields in cashew (Anacardium occidentale) and it is possible that deforestation surrounding cashew plantations may prevent effective pollinators from visiting cashew flowers and contribute to this deficit.
Breno Magalhães Freitas, Alípio J.S. Pacheco Filho, Patrícia Barreto Andrade, Camila Queiroz Lemos, Epifânia Emanuela Macedo Rocha, Natália Oliveira Pereira, Antonio Diego Melo Bezerra, David Silva Nogueira, Ramayanno Lopes Alencar, Roberto Felipe Rocha, Keniesd Sampaio Mendonça   +10 more
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Adaptive Responses of Tropical Crops: A Multi‐Scale Omics Integrated Perspective

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Tropical crops integrate genomic, morphological, physiological, and ecological adaptations to thrive under extreme and variable environments. This review highlights how natural selection, domestication, and breeding shape stress resilience, resource‐use strategies, and productivity in sugarcane, banana, cassava, rubber and oil palm, offering new routes
Peilin Wang, Chenhui Li, Dongjiao Wang, Qibin Wu, Zhen Zeng, Huiming Guo, Han Cheng, Songbi Chen, Hongxing Cao, Hongmei Cheng, Jianghui Xie, Youxiong Que   +11 more
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Structure of bird communities in eucalyptus plantations: nestedness as a pattern of species distribution

Brazilian Journal of Biology
Replacement of native habitats by tree plantations has increased dramatically in Brazil, resulting in loss of structural components for birds, such as appropriate substrates for foraging and nesting.
L. I. Jacoboski, A. de Mendonça-Lima, S. M. Hartz   +2 more
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Microbial Biomass and Enzyme Activity of Soil Under Clonal Rubber Tree Plantations

Floresta e Ambiente, 2020
Our study aimed to evaluate the influence of rubber tree plantations (Clones IAN 873 and FX 3864) on microbial activity, total organic carbon (TOC), and soils chemical attributes, using as reference pasture and secondary forest, in Rio de Janeiro.
Anderson Ribeiro Diniz, Cristiane Figueira da Silva, Marcos Gervasio Pereira, Fabiano Carvalho Balieiro, Eduardo Vinícius da Silva, Felipe Martini dos Santos   +5 more
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Complementary or Competitive? Emerging Interactions Between Restoration and Protection in the Conservation Reserve Program

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The USDA's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) delivers environmental benefits to society by enrolling cropland and grasslands to reestablish or safeguard long‐term vegetative cover. In recent years, the CRP has dramatically increased grassland enrollment while cropland enrollment has been in steady decline. This paper uses descriptive analysis,
Wesley Zebrowski, Tyler Lark, Rich Iovanna   +2 more
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Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
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Choice experiments on land managers' participation in environmental programs: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of estimate validity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Discrete choice experiments are increasingly being used to estimate land managers' willingness to accept participation in incentive‐based environmental programs. This is a specific application of discrete choice experiments: the estimation of willingness to accept for a private good (program participation) where respondents have to make trade ...
Anastasio J. Villanueva, Angel Perni, Jesus Barreiro‐Hurle   +2 more
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Dynamics of species composition in the herbaceous-subshrub later of pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) plantations following canopy closure in a moist, relatively fertile site type in Zhytomyr Polissia

Біологічні студії
Background. In recent decades, the area of mature oak forests in Ukraine has been declining due to clear felling. Additionally, the existing network of protected areas is insufficient to encompass the full diversity of natural oak forests.
Ihor Ivanyuk, Tetiana Ivaniuk, Volodymyr Krasnov, Oleh Zhukovskyi, Iryna Patseva   +4 more
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Sustainable Palm Oil Extraction and Trends in the Use of Green Technologies: State‐of‐the‐Art and Future Directions

Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Palm oil, which is extracted from the mesocarp of the fruit of the Elaeis guineensis Jacq. palm tree, is the most widely produced vegetable oil in the world. The extraction of this substance typically utilizes the conventional pressing method, a technique that is advantageous due to its low operating cost and simplified process.
Constantino Lucas Queta, Alessandra Lopes de Oliveira, Aline Silva Mello Cesar   +2 more
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