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Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During their long evolutionary history, land plants have evolved a range of adaptations to different abiotic stressors. These help explain present‐day diversity and distribution patterns, as well as the potential resilience of natural and agricultural systems to a changing climate. Most previous research has focused on adaptation to individual
Marc Fradera‐Soler +6 more
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Wild Grass Types as Green Roofing Materials for Urban Landscapes in a Tropical Climate [PDF]
, 2019 Urban cities, especially in tropical context emphasis on alternative green covers namely green roofs in order to mitigate Urban Heat Island Effect. Grass is a widespread green roofing material, predominantly for extensive green roofs.
Muthukumara, S.A.U.R. +2 more
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Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For millennia, human activities have transformed ecosystems globally. Determining which landscapes are predominantly anthropogenic is crucial to conservation and habitat restoration. Madagascar, a critically‐threatened biodiversity hotspot, is a prominent example.
Grant S. Joseph +7 more
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Management options for gamba grass (Andropogon gayanus) in conservation areas of Cape York Peninsula Final report [PDF]
, 2021 Andropogon gayanus (gamba grass) is a high-biomass grass native to tropical and subtropical Africa and introduced into Australia as a pasture grass. Under well-managed grazing conditions, gamba grass has proven a useful and palatable addition to tropical
Setter, Stephen D. +6 more
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Leveraging High-Resolution Satellite Imagery and Gradient Boosting for Invasive Weed Mapping
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2020 An introduced pasture grass (Andropogon gayanus - gamba grass) is spreading through the tropical savannas of northern Australia, with detrimental ecosystem consequences including increased fire intensity.
Yuri Shendryk +3 more
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When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li +3 more
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A historical appraisal of the tropical forages collection conserved at CIAT
Genetic Resources, 2020 A report on the tropical forage germplasm collection conserved in the CIAT genebank is presented. Emphasis is firstly on the assembling of the collection during 1972‒1993 through about 70 major and minor collecting missions in tropical America, Africa ...
Rainer Schultze-Kraft +2 more
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Fertilizer versus legume nitrogen for tropical grass-legume associations. [PDF]
, 1987 The effects of fertilizer nitrogem and legume nitrogem on yield and quality of three tropical grasses, a legume and grass-legume associations was evaluated in 1984 and 1985.
PRINE, G. M. +2 more
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ChemFoodChem, EarlyView.Comprehensive two‐dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC) is gaining importance in food analysis, particularly for volatile and aroma‐related compounds. This review examines recent applications across plant‐, animal‐, and other food matrices, revealing trends in sample preparation, column selection, modulation and detection, while highlighting ...
Ana Jano +3 more
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Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 2014 The objective of this experiment was to evaluate the losses of nutrient through gases and effluents, the nutrient recovery, fermentation parameters and the chemical parameters of silages of Brachiaria decumbens with the addition of soybean hulls, testing
Carlos Clayton Oliveira Dantas +6 more
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