Urban gardening: managing the risks of contaminated soil. [PDF]
Environ Health Perspect, 2013 Kessler R.
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Food plants are vital to human and planetary health, but their diversity is threatened, making food security, nutrition, and environmental goals more difficult to achieve. Food plant diversity conservation, research, and education can be enhanced through collaboration between sectors, including genebanks and botanic gardens, which possess complementary
Colin K. Khoury +35 more
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An urban evolved invasive plant tolerates experimental climate change
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Urbanization may drive invasive species evolution, resulting in greater invasion risks as global conditions change. We compared urban populations of the invasive Erigeron annuus in Zagreb, Croatia, to surrounding rural populations and found that urban‐evolved populations were more tolerant of experimental warming and drought than rural populations ...
S. Luke Flory +4 more
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Tomato Urban Gardening Supported by an IoT-Based System: A Latin American Experience Report on Technology Adoption. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Ibarra-Cabrera MJ +5 more
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When alien plants become health hazards: An applied study on toxic and allergenic risks in Italy
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Alien plants are often studied for their ecological harm, but their risks to human and animal health remain poorly documented. This study provides the first comprehensive catalogue of poisonous and allergenic alien plants in Italy, identifying which species are dangerous, where they grow and who is most at risk—from children in city parks to pets and ...
Giulio Barone +3 more
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Urban gardening activities and nutrition education through board games improved knowledge related to vegetables and fruits among girls and overweight children in Malaysian primary school: a pilot study. [PDF]
J Health Popul NutrManaf ZA +4 more
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WorldCuP: A database of checklists documenting the World's Cultivated Plants and their distributions
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Human life would be unrecognizable without the benefits of cultivated plants, including crops, ornamentals, or plants with other uses. Despite their importance in daily life and prevalence across landscapes, we know surprisingly little about global cultivated plant distributions.
Nicole L. Kinlock +2 more
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Creating Local "Citizen's Governance Spaces" in Austerity Contexts : Food Recuperation and Urban Gardening in Montréal (Canada) as Ways to Pragmatically Invent Alternatives. [PDF]
Urban Aff Rev Thousand Oaks CalifBherer L, Dufour P, Montambeault F.
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Megadiverse genera represent the highest concentration of plant diversity, but these plants are also located primarily in countries in the Global South where huge gaps in botanical knowledge remain. This study summarized two centuries of Begonia collection records in the Philippines to show how historical events coincide with collection and taxonomic ...
Mark Angelo C. Bucay +5 more
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A dissertation on oriental gardening /
Errata, p. [95].Signatures: A-2A².T.p. and dedication etched by Francesco Bartolozzi after Giovanni Battista Cipriani.Mode of access: Internet.Binding: 19th-century marbled paper, half goatskin.
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796. +3 more
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