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Classifying avian drinking behaviour: ecological insights and implications in a changing world
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Water is a fundamental currency of life, and its availability significantly influences animal behaviour, physiology and distributions. However, our knowledge around the dependence on water for drinking and the direct and indirect mechanisms driving related behaviours remains partial in the context of changing climates. Here, we review patterns
Shannon R. Conradie, Marc T. Freeman
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Scientific ReportsMaize production by smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa is constrained by declining soil fertility due to low input use and poor nutrient management.
Abdul-Latif Abdul-Aziz +2 more
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AgronomyA field trial was conducted at two locations in northern Ghana over two successive years to determine the optimal insecticide application timings for mitigating non-lepidopteran pest infestations in a cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) variety ...
Jerry A. Nboyine +9 more
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Factors that Determine Aflatoxin Infestation in Ghana: Application of Cragg's Double Hurdle Model
Sustainable Futures, 2020 In our application of Cragg's (double hurdle) model, we explicitly address functional form misspecification by first using nonparametric regression to identify the functional relationship between aflatoxin infestation and a vector of agronomic and ...
Prince Maxwell Etwire, Edward Martey
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Farmers’ response to COVID-19 disruptions: The case of cropland allocation decision
Sustainable Futures, 2022 This study provides new evidence on the determining factors of cropland allocation decisions within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by using the seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) model on 309 farm households.
Edward Martey +2 more
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Emissions mitigation opportunities for savanna countries from early dry season fire management
Nature Communications, 2018 Savanna fires produce significant emissions globally, but if managed effectively could provide an important mitigation opportunity, particularly in African least developed countries.
G. Lipsett-Moore, N. Wolff, E. Game
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The evidence base for ranger patrol effectiveness in conservation and how to improve it
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ranger patrols are a cornerstone of wildlife protection efforts around the world and occur across all ecological governance systems. Evidence that patrols reduce threats to wildlife and enable their recovery has not been systematically examined previously.
Trina Rytwinski +19 more
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Spatial patterning among savanna trees in high-resolution, spatially extensive data
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019 Significance Understanding how environmental variation shapes vegetation distributions is crucial for predicting biosphere responses to global change.
A. Staver +4 more
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Dynamics of biotic resistance to plant invasions
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biotic resistance, the reduction in invasion success caused by native communities, plays an important role in the long‐term dynamics of biological invasions. A large body of empirical research on biotic resistance has accumulated since the last comprehensive review on the subject 20 years ago, enabling us to achieve a refined understanding of ...
Christine S. Sheppard +13 more
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Advances in Agriculture, 2018 A field experiment was conducted at Savanna Agricultural Research Institute in 2015 cropping season to examine the inheritance of early maturity among an extra-early maturing landrace Sanzi and a medium maturing variety Padi-Tuya and their progenies. The
Emmanuel Yaw Owusu +5 more
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