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Ecosphere, Volume 12, Issue 9, September 2021., 2021 Abstract Fire exclusion and mismanaged grazing are globally important drivers of environmental change in mesic C4 grasslands and savannas. Although interest is growing in prescribed fire for grassland restoration, we have little long‐term experimental evidence of the influence of burn season on the recovery of herbaceous plant communities, encroachment
Erin N. Novak +8 more
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Seed dispersal by carnivores in temperate and tropical dry forests
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 11, Issue 9, Page 3794-3807, May 2021., 2021 The Protected Natural Area of Sierra Fría comprises temperate forests and dry tropical forests. We found that the gray fox, coyote, ringtail, coati, and bobcat are the dispersers in the temperate forest and dry tropical forest under study, the latter with a greater abundance and richness of dispersed plant species.
Fabián Alejandro Rubalcava‐Castillo +4 more
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Overview of Genus Prosopis Toxicity Reports and its Beneficial Biomedical Properties [PDF]
, 2016 Secondary plant metabolites are regarded as promising sources of plant-protecting substances and they are one of the most important lines of plant defense against pests. The range of cellular targets for these substances is very wide and covers metabolic
Gamarra Luques, Carlos Diego +3 more
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Predation release of Texas horned lizards (Phrynosoma cornutum) living in small towns
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 11, Issue 10, Page 5355-5363, May 2021., 2021 Texas horned lizards living in small South Texas towns experience a predation release. This allows them to exist at much higher than normal densities than populations living in more natural environments. Abstract Texas horned lizards (Phrynosoma cornutum) have a number of ways to avoid predation, including camouflage, sharp cranial horns, flattening of
Stephen Mirkin +2 more
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RAPD and microsatellite transferability studies in selected species of Prosopis (section Algarobia) with emphasis on Prosopis juliflora and P. pallida [PDF]
, 2011 The genus Prosopis (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae), comprises 44 species widely distributed in arid and semi-arid zones. Prosopis pallida (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Kunth and P. juliflora (Sw.) DC. are the two species that are truly tropical apart from P.
A Burkart +62 more
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Commodity risk assessment of Persea americana from Israel
EFSA Journal, Volume 19, Issue 2, February 2021., 2021 Abstract The EFSA Panel on Plant health was requested to prepare and deliver risk assessments for commodities listed in the relevant Implementing Acts as ‘High risk plants, plant products and other objects’ (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 establishing a provisional list of high risk plants, plant products or other objects, within the
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH) +25 more
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Exploring drying conditions for Mexican mesquite pods (Prosopis laevigata)
Proceedings of 21th International Drying Symposium, 2018 Mesquite pods contain a high nutritional content, then a protein rich flour can be obtained. Prosopis Laevigata pods were collected from Oaxaca and Durango. Three stages of maturity were identified. The internal structure of the pods was analyzed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
Sandoval Torres, Sadoth +4 more
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CyTA - Journal of Food, 2018 Species of the genus Prosopis were a major staple food in Aridoamerica before the arrival of Europeans. In the present work, chemical and nutritional properties of Prosopis laevigata pods were described. The composition in weight of pods of P.
Luis Díaz-Batalla +6 more
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Historical ethnobotany of Criollos groups of Argentina II: Valuation, cultural adscription and analysis of non-medicinal uses presented by the Argentinian Government at the Universal Exhibition of Paris of 1889 [PDF]
, 2017 Se pone en valor, analiza y adscribe culturalmente el voluminoso corpus de usos no medicinales de las plantas que fueran registrados y exhibidos para la Exposición Universal de París de 1889.
Scarpa, Gustavo Fabián
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A comprehensive guide to the Argentinian case-bearer beetle fauna (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Camptosomata) [PDF]
, 2017 Knowledge of Argentinian Camptosomata has largely remained static for the last 60 years since the last publication by Francisco de Asis Monrós in the 1950’s.
Agrain, Federico Alejandro +4 more
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