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Responses of Soil Abiotic Properties and Microbial Community Structure to 25-Year Cucumber Monoculture in Commercial Greenhouses

open access: yesAgriculture, 2021
Cucumber monoculture could cause soil salinization and acidification, soilborne diseases, and eventually yield loss. However, after a 25-year monoculture in Wafangdian county, Liaoning province, China, cucumber yields have remained satisfactory.
Yu-Han Gao   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Influence of Plant Dispersion on Movement Patterns of the Colorado Potato Beetle, \u3ci\u3eLeptinotarsa Decemlineata\u3c/i\u3e (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The influence of plant dispersion on movements of the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), was studied with mark-recapture techniques.
Bach, Catherine E
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Experiments and simulations on short chain fatty acid production in a colonic bacterial community [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Understanding how production of specific metabolites by gut microbes is modulated by interactions with surrounding species and by environmental nutrient availability is an important open challenge in microbiome research.
Bobrow, Johanna   +6 more
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Utilizing Different Crop Rotation Systems for Agricultural and Environmental Sustainability: A Review

open access: yesAgronomy
Monoculture involves growing the same crop on the same land over at least two crop cycles. Continuous monoculture can increase the population density of pests and pathogens over time, thereby reducing agricultural yields and increasing dependence on ...
Zainulabdeen Kh. Al-Musawi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Productivism and Post-Productivism in the Olive Groves of Southern Spain

open access: yesQuaestiones Geographicae, 2017
This work examines changes in the cultivation of olive groves in the region of Andalusia since the accession of Spain to the European Common Market (1986).
Martínez José Domingo Sánchez   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of agricultural management on soil organic matter and carbon transformation - a review

open access: yesPlant, Soil and Environment, 2006
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is the most often reported attribute and is chosen as the most important indicator of soil quality and agricultural sustainability.
X. Liu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

El olivar andaluz y sus transformaciones recientes

open access: yesEstudios Geográficos, 2011
El olivar andaluz sufrió momentos críticos a lo largo del siglo XX, hasta el punto de ser considerado como un «cultivo problema» durante las décadas que precedieron a la incorporación de España en la actual Unión Europea.
José Domingo Sánchez Martínez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of the Association of Maize with Native Beans on the Morphological Growth, Yield, and Nutritional Composition of Forage Intended for Silage in the Peruvian Amazon

open access: yesAgronomy
Scenarios of climate change, extensive land use, soil degradation, the loss of native forest cover due to monoculture expansion, and pasture scarcity pose new challenges to livestock farming worldwide.
Héctor V. Vásquez   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of CSLM imaging rate on biofilms of P. aeruginosa and S. aureus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Biofilms are sessile communities of bacteria that can be found in an wide range of environments. Their inhabitants are phenotypically distinct from plank- tonic bacteria and are capable of forming complex, three-dimensional structures.
Du, Reginald
core   +1 more source

Effect of long-term organic and mineral fertilisation on selected physico-chemical soil properties in rye monoculture and five-year crop rotation

open access: yesSoil Science Annual, 2019
The research was carried out continuously since 1923 in a permanent fertilisation experiment at the Experimental Station of SGGW in Skierniewice. The objective of the research was to determine the effect of long-term fertilisation (Ca, CaNPK, NPK) and ...
Stępień Wojciech, Kobiałka Monika
doaj   +1 more source

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