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A Fly in the Ointment? Non‐Target Fly Pest Benefits From Reduction in Ivermectin During Targeted Selective Treatment

open access: yesEntomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
Targeted Selective Treatment (TST) can reduce the rate of resistance development in livestock gastrointestinal nematodes but can also reduce the effects of anthelmintics on non‐target organisms. Most studies of non‐target anthelmintic effects focus on beneficial species.
Megan J. Lewis   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plant Traits and Reproduction in a Multitrophic System: The Role of Aphids, Parasitoids and Hyperparasitoids

open access: yesEntomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
This field mesocosm study examined the top‐down effects of hyperparasitoids, parasitoids and aphids on plant growth and fitness. Parasitoids reduced aphid populations, but this effect was attenuated by hyperparasitoids. However, these multitrophic interactions did not affect plant traits and reproduction, likely due to the plant's fast life cycle and ...
Mitchel E. Bourne   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Simplified performance assessment methodology for addressing soil quality of nature-based solutions

open access: yes, 2021
International audiencePurpose In urban areas, soil functions are deeply impacted by all human activities, e.g., water infiltration, carbon storage, and chemical substances degradation potential.
Hanzlikova, Jitka   +15 more
core   +1 more source

‘Elbow grease and yellow soap’: Housework time in working‐class households in late‐nineteenth and early twentieth‐century Britain

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Housework is central to feminist calls for recognition of women's work, economic histories explaining the sexual division of labour, and claims regarding the progressive role of scientific knowledge. Yet little is known about the time it actually took. We address this lacuna.
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries
wiley   +1 more source

Earlier Flowering Phenology and Pollinator Visitation on Urban Green Roofs Compared to Ground-Level Gardens

open access: yesLand
Urban green space, green infrastructure, and horticultural installations are gaining recognition for their potential to foster biodiversity. Green roofs are challenging growing environments for plants, characterized by extreme substrate temperatures, high light intensity, limited moisture availability, and limited substrate depth. Plants have a variety
Michael Guidi, Jennifer Bousselot
openaire   +2 more sources

ADAPTATION OF GARDENING TO THE NEWS URBAN CHALLENGES : Green roofs as part of the future sustainable city

open access: yes, 2009
More than half of the world’s population is currently living in urban areas, a figure that is expected to increase over the coming years. Urbanisation have had large effects on the physical environment with increasing temperatures, reduced air quality ...
Emilsson, Tobias,   +1 more
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Ecodistricts – principles of planning and designing based on case studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Through detailed analysis of the selected case studies, this thesis examines ecodistricts, which are city components that bear the load of offering the solutions that the cities themselves, due to their complex and rather complicated structure and ...
Bardhyl Rama
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The Spatial Anatomy of Working at Home: Concepts, Measures and Types of Spaces Used

open access: yesIndustrial Relations Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article provides a spatial analysis of working at home. It makes distinctions according to the extent to which the boundaries of work and home spatially overlap. Using this conceptual lens, it deploys data from Britain′s Skills and Employment Survey to track the trends and patterns of homeworking and hybrid working over the last two ...
Alan Felstead   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Entangled Foodways and Livelihood Pathways: Cinnamon, State Interventions, and Everyday Life in Hmong Communities of Northern Vietnam

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agroecological practices of ethnic minority farmers in Vietnam's northern uplands are being reshaped by intersecting pressures of land‐use reform, market integration, and state‐backed crop promotion. Among Hmong communities in the south of Lào Cai Province (former Yên Bái Province) cinnamon was once valued primarily for its medicinal ...
Mélie Monnerat, Sarah Turner
wiley   +1 more source

Structural assessment of existing timber roof structures for green roofs in Rotterdam

open access: yes, 2015
Green roofs, also known as vegetation roofs, are becoming very popular for residents of houses or apartments and for good reasons. Vegetation on rooftops have many benefits on global and local level. Expectations show that the climate change will lead to
Rovers, L.H.C.J. (author)
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