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A Female‐Locust‐Inspired Hybrid Soft‐Stiff Robotic Digger: Mimetics and Implications for Digging Efficiency

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Female desert locusts dig underground to lay their eggs. They displace soil, rather than removing it, to create a tunnel. We analyze burrowing dynamics and 3D kinematics and design a locust‐inspired hybrid soft–stiff robot that reproduces this mechanism. The results show the natural strategy minimizes energy, whereas alternative patterns raise costs up
Shai Sonnenreich, Amir Ayali, Bat‐El Pinchasik   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biochar and anionic polyacrylamide modulated soil hydraulic functions catalyze water saving, root development and yield of basmati rice. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
Sharma P, Abrol V, Shabir H, Gupta SK, Gupta NK, Samnotra RK, Chandra S, Bashir O, Amjid S, Singh P, Hashem A, Kumar A, Abd Allah EF, Kumar M, Sandhu R, Chembolu V, Lado M, Hublikar LV.   +17 more
europepmc   +1 more source

De Gustibus Est Disputandum: The role of agricultural and applied economists in an era of behavior change initiatives and endogenous preferences

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Popular society increasingly questions preferences that drive many resource allocations and production decisions, with many groups actively seeking to alter those preferences to achieve changes to resource use. Agricultural and applied economists, who are already equipped with excellent technical skills to undertake consumer preference and ...
Brian E. Roe
wiley   +1 more source

Intercropping with pear and cover crops as a strategy to boost soil carbon sequestration in the Taihang mountains' fragile ecosystems. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
Zhang C, Tong S, Zhang R, Li X, Wang XX, Wang H.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Economics of land‐based carbon mitigation

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Agricultural land holds tremendous potential to contribute to net zero greenhouse gas emission goals by providing low carbon renewable energy to displace fossil fuels and by serving as a sink for sequestering carbon in the soil with climate‐smart practices. This potential is, however, far from being realized.
Madhu Khanna
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Degradation of Footbed Materials Under Different Conditions. [PDF]

Polymers (Basel)
Patnaik A, Muniyasamy S, Goyal A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Intraspecific variation in stomatal architecture, gas exchange, and drought response of a dominant prairie grass sourced from broad climatic gradients

American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Understanding how plant populations adapt to water limitation through stomatal traits is key to predicting drought responses. The dominant C4 grass Andropogon gerardi, distributed across sharp climate gradients in North America, offers an excellent focal species to study stomatal architecture (size and density).
Jack Sytsma, Allison Ricker, Helen Winters, Brian Maricle, Ryann Patterson, Kian Fogarty, Loretta Johnson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of wet-dry cycles on the bimodal soil-water characteristic curve and unsaturated permeability of granite residual soil. [PDF]

PLoS One
Zhang Y, Gu K, Dou H, Wu Y, Li L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Relationship between Wood Physical Properties of English Oak (Quercus robur L.) and Soil Variables

, 2016
İbrahi̇m Bektaş, Suphi ORUÇ, Bekir Cihad Bal, Ayşenur Kılıç Ak   +3 more
openalex   +1 more source

Dimorphic enantiostyly and its function for pollination by carpenter bees in a pollen‐rewarding Caribbean bloodwort

American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Flowers that present their anthers and stigma in close proximity can achieve precise animal‐mediated pollen transfer, but risk self‐pollination. One evolutionary solution is reciprocal herkogamy. Reciprocity of anther and style positions among different plants (i.e., a genetic dimorphism) is common in distylous plants, but very rare in
Steven D. Johnson, Jeremy J. Midgley, Luis G. Bocourt‐Hernandez, F. G. Loiret, Patricia Ortega‐Rodés, Nicola Illing   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source