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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Avocados are a multibillion‐dollar global commodity, but their growing export market pressures local farmers to abandon local fruit tree diversity in favor of commercial cultivar production. Interviews with rural avocado farmers and households from the Southern Mexican Highlands, Pacific Coastal Honduras, and Western Nicaragua, as well as the genetic ...
Kevin Wann +4 more
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Semillas, 2011 Annual Report [PDF]
, 2012 Semillas works by creating a culture of social investment in Mexico that focuses on transforming society rather than welfare assistance, which only gets immediate results.
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Needle in a haystack: Holocene history of European larch in Central Europe revisited
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Defining nativity of species is crucial for their management. However, this is a complex task, especially for species that have been used and spread by humans for a long time. We combined paleoecological records with extensive genetic data to investigate the Holocene history of European larch—a common and economically important tree species in Central ...
Martin Prach +11 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.The effect of air pollution on plants is still underexplored, especially belowground. We used a field facility that released diesel exhaust and ozone at concentrations equivalent to those near a busy road in Reading, UK, to measure belowground gas exchange of Scots pine together with feeding by large pine weevils, a major pest of conifers.
Tihomir Simin +7 more
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Social Sustainability in Circular Bioeconomy Business Models: Insights From Argentina
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on circular bioeconomy business models (CBEBM) has largely prioritised environmental and economic aspects, leaving out the social pillar. To address this gap, this paper analyses to what extent and in what ways social sustainability is integrated into CBEBM, based on 12 cases from northern Argentina, a region with high potential for ...
Celina N. Amato +2 more
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.Spanolepis selloanae (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) infests Cortaderia selloana (pampas grass). It lays eggs in the spikelets, where larvae feed on female parts. The high prevalence of the midge and its combined impact in seed production, condition and viability strongly reduces the reproductive output of C. selloana.
María J. Servia +6 more
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Efecto de la humedad, la temperatura y el empaque sobre la longevidad y calidad de semillas de soya
Agronomía MesoamericanaIntroducción. La calidad de las semillas es clave para un óptimo rendimiento del cultivo de la soya, y puede ser afectada por el contenido de humedad, la temperatura de almacenamiento y el proceso de empaque. Objetivo.
José Israel López-Rodríguez +3 more
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Efecto de la temperatura, el potencial hídrico y su interacción sobre la germinación de semillas de lapacho rosado (Handroanthus impetiginosus) [PDF]
, 2023 PosterUno de los procesos más importantes del ciclo de vida de las plantas es la germinación de las semillas. La temperatura y la disponibilidad de agua son los principales factores ambientales que regulan la germinación de las semillas, afectando tanto ...
Rivero, Maria Victoria +7 more
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