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Master narratives as “colonial propaganda” and counternarratives as “refusal”: How African Australians reimagine racial dignity in Australia

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper utilizes the concept of “colonial master narratives” to examine how racial propaganda is mobilized in the Australian imaginary to “flatten” the stories of Blac/k people and how African Australians deploy counternarratives to reject these racialized projections.
Kathomi Gatwiri, Samara Kim
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Optimizing Sex Ratio and Colony Size to Enhance Reproduction and Mass‐Rearing in Spodoptera litura Under Controlled Laboratory Conditions

Ecology and Evolution
The tobacco cutworm Spodoptera litura is a globally distributed polyphagous agricultural pest and common factitious host for mass‐producing biological control agents (e.g., predators, parasitoids, entomopathogens), owing to its rapid development, and ...
Chuanzhen Xue, Hanqi Li, Bowen Xu, Jiaying Mao, Xiaotong Xu, Yuanfei Li, Jianjun Mao, Mengqing Wang, Huizi Wu, Hancheng Wang, Yuyan Li, Lisheng Zhang   +11 more
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Optimizing cold storage for diapause termination and post-diapause performance in the green lacewing Chrysopa formosa Brauer (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae)

Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control
Background Diapause is an adaptative strategy that enables insects to survive unfavorable environmental conditions, and its regulation is critical for large-scale production and storage of natural enemies used in biological control.
Longrui Wang, Yanan Wang, Yujia Li, Xuyang Tian, Lisheng Zhang, Yuyan Li   +5 more
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Temporal Resource (Dis)continuity for Conservation Biological Control: From Field to Landscape Scales

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2020
Conservation biological control (CBC) seeks to promote the occurrence of natural enemies of agricultural pests by managing habitat to provide key resources in and around farm fields.
Benjamin Iuliano, Claudio Gratton, Claudio Gratton   +2 more
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Orchard netting impacts on biodiversity leading to cascading effects at the ecosystem level

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agriculture must ensure food production without further compromising the ecosystem functions upon which it depends. Agricultural practices should therefore avoid harming farmland biodiversity, especially of taxa that supply the key ecosystem services (e.g.
Corrado Alessandrini, Karan Sethi, Emanuela Granata, Ekaterina Mogilnaia, Valeria Vitangeli, Giovanni Zanfei, Chiara Fedrigotti, Paolo Biella, Dino Scaravelli, Luigi Marchesi, Péter Batáry, Diego Rubolini, Paolo Pedrini, Mattia Brambilla   +13 more
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Molecular Identification of the Glutaredoxin 5 Gene That Plays Important Roles in Antioxidant Defense in Arma chinensis (Fallou)

Insects
Glutaredoxin (Grx) is a group of redox enzymes that control reactive oxygen species (ROS), traditionally defined as redox regulators. Recent research suggested that members of the Grx family may be involved in more biological processes than previously ...
Qiaozhi Luo, Zhongjian Shen, Nipapan Kanjana, Xingkai Guo, Huihui Wu, Lisheng Zhang   +5 more
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Dynamics of biotic resistance to plant invasions

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biotic resistance, the reduction in invasion success caused by native communities, plays an important role in the long‐term dynamics of biological invasions. A large body of empirical research on biotic resistance has accumulated since the last comprehensive review on the subject 20 years ago, enabling us to achieve a refined understanding of ...
Christine S. Sheppard, Joshua I. Brian, Wayne Dawson, Petr Dostál, Franz Essl, Michal Gruntman, Tina Heger, Mark van Kleunen, Mialy Razanajatovo, Lena C. Reimann, Frank M. Schurr, Montserrat Vilà, Florencia A. Yannelli, Marina Golivets   +13 more
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Identifying aphid resistance in the ancestral wheat Triticum monococcum under field conditions

Scientific Reports, 2021
Wheat is an economically, socially, and nutritionally important crop, however, aphid infestation can often reduce wheat yield through feeding and virus transmission.
Amma L. Simon, John C. Caulfield, Kim E. Hammond-Kosack, Linda M. Field, Gudbjorg I. Aradottir   +4 more
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At Which Spatial Scale Does Crop Diversity Enhance Natural Enemy Populations and Pest Control? An Experiment in a Mosaic Cropping System

Agronomy, 2022
The importance of plant richness to enhance the presence, biodiversity and efficiency of natural enemies in agricultural systems has largely been studied and demonstrated these last decades.
Coline C. Jaworski, Eva Thomine, Adrien Rusch, Anne-Violette Lavoir, Chunli Xiu, Di Ning, Yanhui Lu, Su Wang, Nicolas Desneux   +8 more
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Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez   +1 more
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