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Rural-urban transformation shapes oasis agriculture in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains

Scientific Reports
Traditional agricultural activities and rural livelihoods in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains are rapidly changing. This is triggered by increasing rural-urban interactions and new livelihood opportunities in cities.
Youness Boubou, Kira Fastner, Andreas Buerkert   +2 more
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Six Decades of Rural Landscape Transformation in Five Lebanese Villages

Land
During the last six decades, Lebanon’s landscapes have undergone significant regime shifts whose causes are under-investigated. Using land cover maps from 1962 and satellite imagery from 2014 and 2023 in five randomly selected villages across Lebanon’s ...
Abed Al Kareem Yehya, Thanh Thi Nguyen, Martin Wiehle, Rami Zurayk, Andreas Buerkert   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Review on the possible interactions of pests, diseases & weeds in cereals grown in organic and conventional agriculture [PDF]

, 2001
Background The demand for organically produced food is outstripping the ability of UK farmers to supply it and the majority is imported. Furthermore, there is a major shortfall in home-produced organic cereals and cereal products, including straw.
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By dawn or dusk—how circadian timing rewrites bacterial infection outcomes

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The circadian clock shapes immune function, yet its influence on infection outcomes is only beginning to be understood. This review highlights how circadian timing alters host responses to the bacterial pathogens Salmonella enterica, Listeria monocytogenes, and Streptococcus pneumoniae revealing that the effectiveness of immune defense depends not only
Devons Mo, Catherine S. Palmer, Jacqueline M. Kimmey   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leveraging machine learning and Landsat time series for high-resolution mapping of mining-induced vegetation changes in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Environmental Challenges
Quarries are open pit mines, where construction materials such as granite and clay are extracted from the earth's surface, leading to a major disturbance of vegetation and subsequent degradation of ecosystem services.
Oussama Himmy, Thanh Thi Nguyen, Katharina Salomea Hemmler, Safia Loulad, Hassan Rhinane, Andreas Buerkert   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Agro-ecological landuse transformation in oasis systems of Al Jabal Al Akhdar, northern Oman

Scientific Reports, 2021
The millenia-old oasis systems in the Western Hajar Mountains of Northern Oman have received widespread attention as models of sustainable irrigated agriculture in hyperarid Arabia. Given Oman’s rampant urbanization, growing scarcity of water and skilled
Andreas Buerkert, Bryan Adam Dix, Mohamed Nasser Al Rawahi, Eva Schlecht   +3 more
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Methane Emission and Milk Production from Jersey Cows Grazing Perennial Ryegrass–White Clover and Multispecies Forage Mixtures

Agriculture, 2021
Methane is a major constituent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from ruminants, and mitigation strategies are needed to alleviate this negative environmental impact while maintaining the environmental and other benefits of grazing systems.
Cecilia Loza, Thorsten Reinsch, Ralf Loges, Friedhelm Taube, José Ignacio Gere, Christof Kluß, Mario Hasler, Carsten S. Malisch   +7 more
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Organic production systems in Northern highbush blueberries [PDF]

, 2013
The production of highbush blueberries is increasing worldwide. Organic production of blueberries in Sweden is presently very limited but is expected to have a great potential to expand as the berries are popular and have a good shelf life. The fact that
Asp, H., Caspersen, S., Khalil, S., Svensson, B.   +3 more
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Hematopoietic (stem) cells—The elixir of life?

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The aging of HSCs (hematopoietic stem cells) and the blood system leads to the decline of other organs. Rejuvenating aged HSCs improves the function of the blood system, slowing the aging of the heart, kidney, brain, and liver, and the occurrence of age‐related diseases.
Emilie L. Cerezo, Jonah Anderson, Emilie Dinh Vedrenne, Noël Yeh Martín, Jette Lengefeld   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of green and roasted coffee storage conditions on selected characteristic quality parameters

Scientific Reports, 2023
The paper attempts to determine the best storage conditions for green and roasted coffee beans. Coffee beans were processed in various ways—some of them were washed or left in their natural state after harvesting, then they were stored in two types of ...
Justyna Błaszkiewicz, Ewa Nowakowska-Bogdan, Krzysztof Barabosz, Renata Kulesza, Ewa Dresler, Piotr Woszczyński, Łukasz Biłos, Dominika Barbara Matuszek, Krzysztof Szkutnik   +8 more
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