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Diversity–production relationships of fish communities in freshwater stream ecosystems

, 2021
Aim Ecological relationships between species richness and biomass production are increasingly thought to be pervasive across the globe. Yet, diversity-production relationships have not been explored extensively for freshwater fish communities even though
C. Andrew Dolloff, Myers, Bonnie J. E., Webster, Jackson R., Rypel, Andrew L., Jackson R. Webster, Keith H. Nislow, Bonnie J. E. Myers, Nislow, Keith H., Andrew L. Rypel, Dolloff, C. Andrew   +9 more
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Inventorization of ethnobotanical use of some medicinal halophytes plants in the Algerian arid zone (Biskra) [PDF]

Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmacognosy Research
Context: The population's use of halophyte plants in traditional medicine is a fundamental component of the exploration of natural remedies. Aims: To analyze a list of halophyte plants and their ethnobotanical characteristics, with a focus on those ...
Zohra F. Behaz, Fatma Demnati Allache, Naima Mebrek, Amina Belhadj   +3 more
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Do crop diversity and livestock production improve smallholder intra-household dietary diversity, nutrition and sustainable food production? Empirical evidence from Pakistan

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
Crop diversification and livestock production is an important strategy to enhance nutrition, sustainable food production, and improve food security, especially at the smallholder household level.
Muhammad Waseem, Xiaoyun Li, Ihsan Jamil, Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam, Qasir Abbas, Muhammad Haseeb Raza, Moataz Eliw   +6 more
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Comparison between cage and free-range egg production on microbial composition, diversity and the presence of Salmonella enterica [PDF]

, 2021
The microbial composition of the food production environment plays an important role in food safety and quality. This study employed both 16 S rRNA gene sequencing technology and culture-based techniques to investigate the bacterial microbiota of an egg ...
Courtice Jodi M., Chandry, P. Scott, Fegan, Narelle, Wilson, Annaleise, Turner, Mark S.   +4 more
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Labor diversity and firm productivity

European Economic Review, 2014
Using a matched employer–employee data-set, we analyze how workforce diversity associates with the productivity of firms in Denmark, following two main econometric routes. In the first one, we estimate a standard Cobb–Douglas function, calculate the implied total factor productivity and relate the latter to diversity statistics in a second stage.
Parrotta, Pierpaolo, Pozzoli, Dario, Pytlikova, Mariola   +2 more
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Following diversity through the university:On knowing and embodying a problem

, 2022
Diversity is a widely shared concern within contemporary universities. Most diversity research focuses on what universities are saying and doing about diversity.
Essanhaji, Zakia; id_orcid, Essanhaji, Zakia, van Reekum, Rogier   +2 more
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Approaches and Advantages of Increased Crop Genetic Diversity in the Fields

, 2023
Crop genetic diversity is the most important factor for a long-term sustainable production system. Breeding and production strategies for developing and growing uniform and homogenous varieties have created many problems.
Shree Prasad Neupane, Krishna Hari Ghimire, Bal Krishna Joshi, Dejene K. Mengistu, Devendra Gauchan   +4 more
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Farm production, market access and dietary diversity in Malawi

, 2016
The association between farm production diversity and dietary diversity in rural smallholder households was recently analysed. Most existing studies build on household-level dietary diversity indicators calculated from 7d food consumption recalls. Herein,
Kassie, M., Qaim, M., Koppmair, S.
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Does production diversity support dietary diversity? Evidence from pastoral and agro-pastoral households in West Pokot County, Kenya

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Consumption of part of own-produced food is regarded as a sustainable approach to attaining dietary diversity and a pathway to improved food and nutrition security.
Billy Okemer Ipara, David Jakinda Otieno, Willis Oluoch-Kosura, Angela Adhiambo Andago, Magnus Jirström, Heather Mackay, Fredrik Fernqvist, Elisabeth Rajala   +7 more
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Leveraging farm production diversity for dietary diversity: evidence from national level panel data

Agricultural and Food Economics, 2022
Dietary diversity is the key to improved health and nutrition. Farm production diversity has the potential of enhancing dietary diversity but this interrelationship varies and is ambiguous in many societies.
Sayla Khandoker, Alka Singh, Shivendra Kumar Srivastava   +2 more
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