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Bear Paw quilt, by Savanna Jane Miller

, 1910
Image of a Bear Paw quilt created in 1910 by Savanna Jane Miller. Also includes questionnaires describing the quilt completed by Jane Mills as part of the Utah Quilt Guild\u27s documentation days held from 1988-1994.
Miller, Savanna Jane
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Beyond forests: Harnessing conservation gardening for open biomes in Brazil

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Urban gardening offers an innovative conservation strategy by integrating native ornamental species into urban landscapes. We evaluated the ornamental potential of the Brazilian flora by comparing the representation of species from forests versus open biomes (focusing on campo rupestre grasslands) and introduced and validated the Index of Ornamental ...
Flávia Santos Faria, Luciane Vilela Resende, Fernando A. O. Silveira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Peri‐urban agroforestry for climate mitigation in West Africa: Structural diversity and functional traits as key drivers of carbon storage

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Peri‐urban areas in West Africa are expanding rapidly, often with limited planning and growing exposure to climate risks. Our study shows that agroforestry systems in these landscapes, especially diverse home gardens, can store substantial amounts of carbon when they include structurally complex stands and species with traits that favor biomass ...
Sèdoami Flora Dogbo, Kolawolé Valère Salako, Sylvanus Mensah, Gafarou Agoundé, Kangbéni Dimobe, Achille Ephrem Assogbadjo, Jens Gebauer, Constant Yves Adou Yao, Romain Glèlè Kakaï   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fonio (Digitaria exilis and Digitaria iburua) in Nigeria: Regional cultivation patterns, landrace diversity, and farmer knowledge for conserving a climate‐resilient indigenous cereal

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Fonio (Digitaria exilis and Digitaria iburua) cereals are valued for their drought resilience, adaptability to poor soils, and cultural importance. In Nigeria, where both species are cultivated, fonio has declined due to labor‐intensive processing, lower yields, and changing livelihood choices. By documenting 21 landraces (15 D. exilis and 6 D. iburua),
Ishaq Muawiyya, Abubakar Bello, George P. Burton, Philippa Ryan, Maria S. Vorontsova   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nutrients in an African Savanna: the consequences of supply heterogeneity for plants and animals [PDF]

, 2010
In savannas, trees and grasses co-exist and share resources such as water and nutrients. The ratio between the tree and grass components (i.e., vegetation structure) importantly controls productivity, animal assemblages and earth-atmosphere feedbacks.
Waal, C., van der
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Niche‐tracking as a collecting method: Habitat‐targeted search strategies for taxon‐focused botany

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Biodiversity science depends on more than collecting plants—it depends on how we search for them. Although GPS and digital maps have transformed fieldwork, they can also encourage repeated visits to the same easy‐to‐access sites, leaving other habitats and populations unknown to science.
Lucas C. Marinho, Isabela M. Waga, Domingos Cardoso   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pyramiding aphid resistance genes into the elite cowpea variety, Zaayura, using marker-assisted backcrossing

Heliyon
The cowpea aphid (Aphis cracivora) is a cosmopolitan insect pest that causes economic damage on cowpea. Although the pest persists at all the growth stages of the crop, in West Africa, aphids are the only major insect pests that farmers regularly control
Patrick Attamah, Francis Kusi, Alexander Wireko Kena, Frederick J. Awuku, Salim Lamini, Gloria Mensah, Mukhtaru Zackaria, Emmanuel Yaw Owusu, Richard Akromah   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Land Chief’s embers: ethnobotany of Batéké fire regimes, savanna vegetation and resource use in Gabon [PDF]

, 2010
Anthropogenic fire regimes and society are linked: social change modifies fire application which then impacts ecosystems. In the past 40 years, savanna burning has changed markedly around the world as policies, laws, and cultures change.
Walters, G.M.
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Policy Brief: Brazil's open ecosystems—Carbon stocks overlooked by climate finance

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The equitable recognition of the world's open ecosystems is critical for climate justice and societal well‐being. These ecosystems provide essential services, like carbon storage, water security, and biodiversity protection, that strengthen resilience to climate change. Yet, they remain overlooked in climate finance and policy frameworks that privilege
Franciele Parreira Peixoto, Gerhard Ernst Overbeck, Fernando A. O. Silveira, Newton La Scala Jr, Alexandre Bonesso Sampaio, Giselda Durigan, Amy E. Zanne, Larissa Verona, Valério D. Pillar, Ellane Van Wyk, Rafael S. Oliveira, Alessandra Bassani, Camila Carvalho de Carvalho, Natashi Pilon   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

SOIL TILLAGE AND FERTILIZER EFFECTS ON SOIL MOISTURE RETENTION, GROWTH AND SEED COTTON YIELD OF THE POPULAR FK37 COTTON IN NORTHERN GHANA. [PDF]

Journal CleanWAS
Cotton is a cash crop and enhances farmer livelihoods in northern Ghana. However, cotton yields are diminished because of drought and poor agronomic practices that result in lower lint quality.
Ramson Adombilla, Emmanuel Boachie Chamba, Foster Kangben, Abeka Hammond   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source