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The effect of ground cover plants in apple orchards on soil-dwelling Collembola [PDF]
Journal of Plant Protection ResearchGround cover plants in orchards can effectively improve soil quality. One factor determining soil health is the presence of fauna, including mesofauna, which play a crucial role in soil ecosystems.
Olena Ewa Niszczak +4 more
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Selection of herbaceous plant assortment for park ground cover using plants of natural phytocoenosis [PDF]
BIO Web of Conferences, 2020 The modern direction of landscape architecture to creation of ecological and naturalistic plant communities of perennial herbaceous species for the design of park walking routes in the style of “naturgarten” is highlighted in this paper.
Shlapakova Svetlana N. +4 more
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Influence of citrus orchard ground cover plants on arthropod communities in China: A review
Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 1994 The weed Ageratum conyzoides , as well as other weeds which are beneficial for natural enemies of the citrus red mite Panonychus citri , has been planted or conserved as ground cover in an area of 135 000 ha of citrus orchards in China.
W. Liang, Ming-Du Huang
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South African Journal of Botany, 2008 The impacts of invasive alien plants (IAP) and their subsequent clearing by the Working for Water Programme (WfW) on (a) overstorey (woody plant) vegetation structure, (b) invasion intensity (overstorey aerial cover of woody alien plants) and (c) ground ...
E T F Witkowski
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Weed suppression by ground cover plants
Journal of Weed Science and Technology, 2003 Umeda, Yohko +4 more
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Ajuga reptans: Common Bugle, Bugleweed, Carpet Bugleweed
EDIS, 2018 This document provides an overview of Ajuga reptans, commonly known as bugleweed. It describes the plant’s characteristics, including its dark green to purple leaves, small blue flowers, and its growth habit as a ground cover.
Edward Gilman +2 more
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Urban Ecosystems, 2023 Urban vegetation can influence urban hydrology and reduce the risk of flooding. Urban forestry studies have suggested that tree type and species choice affect the amount of rainwater intercepted and retained. Little information exists, however, for other
Siti Nur Hannah Ismail +2 more
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Evaluating the Drought Endurance of Landscaping Ground Cover Plants in a Roof Top Model
Horticulturae, 2021 Vegetative ground covers are commonly used in urban, tropical roadside gardens. Such landscaping ground covers usually encounter extreme water-deficits and high temperatures from vehicles and urban infrastructures.
N. Pichakum, A. Pichakum
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Factors determining forest diversity and biomass on a tropical volcano, Mt. Rinjani, Lombok, Indonesia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Tropical volcanoes are an important but understudied ecosystem, and the relationships between plant species diversity and compositional change and elevation may differ from mountains created by uplift, because of their younger and more homogeneous soils.
Gbadamassi G O Dossa +7 more
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Remote Sensing, 2023 Clouds can block solar radiation from reaching the surface, so timely and effective cloud cover test and forecasting is critical to the operation and economic efficiency of photovoltaic (PV) plants.
Pan Xia +4 more
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