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, 2020 This is an essay about rust. Iron usually plays the part of strength, stubbornness, and impenetrability, but rust registers the dimension of time in the material, reminding us that it always carries the potential for its own decomposition. While great expense is incurred to stave off iron’s oxidization, we read the uselessness that rust precipitates as
Amelia Groom, M. Ty
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How U.S. Ocean Policy and Market Power Can Reform the Coral Reef Wildlife Trade [PDF]
, 2010 As the world’s largest importer of marine ornamental species for the aquaria, curio, home décor, and jewelry industries, the United States has an opportunity to leverage its considerable market power to promote more sustainable trade and reduce the ...
Amos, Amy Mathews +17 more
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A review of Leptospermum scoparium (Myrtaceae) in New Zealand [PDF]
, 2005 Information about Leptospermum scoparium (Myrtaceae), the most widespread and important New Zealand indigenous shrub species, is reviewed. L. scoparium is a variable species, requiring more study of the genetically based differences between New Zealand ...
Clarkson, Bruce D. +2 more
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Wild Bee Conservation within Urban Gardens and Nurseries: Effects of Local and Landscape Management [PDF]
, 2019 Across urban environments, vegetated habitats provide refuge for biodiversity. Gardens (designed for food crop production) and nurseries (designed for ornamental plant production) are both urban agricultural habitats characterized by high plant species ...
Cecala, Jacob M. +2 more
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Networking and innovation within the ornamental plant sector [PDF]
, 2014 The ornamental plant cultivation could benefit from networking, as the locus of innovation is no longer the individual farm, but increasingly the network within which the farm is embedded.
Crivits, Maarten +4 more
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Revista Brasileira de Horticultura Ornamental, 1995 The family Zingiberaceae (in which I include Costus and other spiral gingers) is the largest and most widespread in the Zingiberales. The forty nine genera and about 1400 species occur throughout the warm parts of the world from 32 degrees North lattitude to 30 degrees South lattitude and from sea level to 4200 meters altitude.
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Ornamental plants on sale to the public are a significant source of pesticide residues with implications for the health of pollinating insects [PDF]
, 2017 Garden centres frequently market nectar- and pollen-rich ornamental plants as “pollinator-friendly”, however these plants are often treated with pesticides during their production.
Arena +35 more
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Production and Marketing of Organic Ornamentals. Developments in Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany [PDF]
, 1998 The importance of organic ornamental plants (cut flowers, pot- and bedding plants, herbaceous plants, ornamental herbs, trees and shrubs) is ranging on a very low level. But the common interest is growing.
Billmann, Bettina
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