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Integrated grain storage - technology transfer for organic farming [PDF]

, 2001
The attached document is the final report of the Defra Project OF0176. Demand for organic grain continues to grow and currently in the UK much has to be imported to satisfy the market.
Anon
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Understanding the effects of patch‐burn grazing management on aboveground grassland invertebrate biodiversity

Oikos, EarlyView.
Landscape heterogeneity is widely recognized as a driver of biodiversity, yet its consequences for above‐ground, foliage‐dwelling insect communities under active grassland management remain underexplored. Patch‐burn grazing (PBG), which rotates fire across patches within a grazed landscape, is designed to promote spatial and temporal heterogeneity by ...
Zachary L. T. Bunch, Meghan L. Avolio, Sally E. Koerner, Kevin R. Wilcox, Lydia H. Zeglin, Kimberly J. Komatsu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Oribatid mite (Acari: Oribatida) contribution to decomposition dynamic of leaf litter in primary forest, second growth, and polyculture in the Central Amazon

Brazilian Journal of Biology
We studied the contribution of oribatid mites in the dynamics of litter decomposition in an experiment using litterbags of three different mesh sizes (20 µm, 250 µm, and 1 cm). The experiment was carried out at a primary forest (FLO), a secondary forest (
E. Franklin, T. Hayek, E. P. Fagundes, L. L. Silva   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Divergent national-scale trends of microbial and animal biodiversity revealed across diverse temperate soil ecosystems

Nature Communications, 2019
It is unclear whether microbes and animals residing in soils follow similar distribution patterns. Here, the authors report richness and diversity of soil microbes and invertebrates across soil, vegetation, and land use gradients in Wales, showing that ...
Paul B. L. George, Delphine Lallias, Simon Creer, Fiona M. Seaton, John G. Kenny, Richard M. Eccles, Robert I. Griffiths, Inma Lebron, Bridget A. Emmett, David A. Robinson, Davey L. Jones   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Soil Invertebrates Generate Microplastics From Polystyrene Foam Debris. [PDF]

J Insect Sci, 2022
Helmberger MS, Miesel JR, Tiemann LK, Grieshop MJ.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Responses of generalist invertebrate predators to pupal densities of autumnal and winter moths under field conditions [PDF]

, 2013
1. Generalist natural enemies are usually not considered as being capable of causing population cycles in forest insects, but they may influence the population dynamics of their prey in the low density cycle phase when specialist enemies are largely ...
Ammunét, Tea, Heisswolf, Annette, Klemola, Netta, Klemola, Tero   +3 more
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Quantitative synthesis of the effects of drought on community composition and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystems

Oikos, EarlyView.
Droughts, increasingly frequent under human‐driven climate change, are expected to intensify globally. Both pulsed and prolonged droughts can strongly affect organismal survival and population dynamics, potentially altering terrestrial communities and ecosystems.
Mattheau S. Comerford, Kate Nash, Averie St. Germaine, Colin Andrews, Tyler S. Barr, Jonathan Dain, Alyssa Gonclaves, Amy, Jones, Cooper Kimball‐ Rhines, William Maguire, Alexander Richards, Emma Schneider, Alexis Wilkes, Mayra C. Vidal   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification and biodiversity patterns of Aspergillus species isolated from some soil invertebrates at high altitude using morphological characteristics and phylogenetic analyses. [PDF]

PeerJ, 2023
Awad MF, Albogami B, Mwabvu T, Hassan MM, Baazeem A, Hassan MM, Elsharkawy MM.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Catchment conversion to agriculture alters freshwater macroinvertebrate community responses to flow disturbance: results from a replicated in‐stream experiment

Oikos, EarlyView.
Anthropogenic stressors often co‐occur in ecosystems, but their combined impacts are rarely assessed using field experiments. Press disturbances particularly can reshape community dynamics, altering their capacity to withstand or recover from acute pulse disturbances by modifying response diversity.
Bridget E. White, Anne Watson, Sean T. Atkinson, Belinda J. Robson, Russell G. Death, Mark J. Hovenden, Leon A. Barmuta   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Laminarinases in Soil and Litter Invertebrates [PDF]

Nature, 1963
LAMINARINASES, enzymes hydrolysing β-D-(1→3)-glu-cans, are widely distributed among micro-organisms1–3. Chesters and Bull1,2 examined their occurrence in 160 fungi. Eighty per cent of the species showed laminarinase activity. Fifty-six per cent of them had laminarinases of the endohydrolytic type (yielding laminaridextrins as initial products), 25 per ...
openaire   +1 more source