COMPARISON OF THE INTEREST OF FOUR TYPES OF ORGANIC MULCHES TO...
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Organic mulches are more favourable to pedofauna than bare soil or plastic sheeting•
Organic mulches offer attractive conditions for many organisms with various ecological needs•
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MONITORING GLUCOCORTICOID METABOLITE CONCENTRATIONS AS A PROXY OF ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS ACROSS...
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Due to considerable global decline in wildlife population numbers and species diversity, because of various anthropogenic activities, conservationists increasingly rely on captive and managed...
PROJECT PUNDE KUNDO: COMMUNITY-BASED MONITORING OF A RED PANDA POPULATION IN...
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the Punde Kundo project, a community-based monitoring of a red panda population in eastern Nepal. Project Punde Kundo provides...
THE STRASBOURG LABORATORY: TOWARDS THE NOBEL PRIZE (2011)
Abstract: We have seen previously that in the 1970s, some French researchers, often isolated, were working on the immunity of Invertebrates. At that time,...
WING FOLDING AND THE FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY OF THE WING BASE IN...
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The wing unfolding of Pachnoda marginata was examined using digital video (50 half-fps) and high speed video sequences (1000 fps), and the skeleto-muscular apparatus of the...
RESEARCH ON ANIMALS AND CURRENT UGC GUIDELINES ON ANIMAL DISSECTION AND...
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Dissection and vivisection are two important activities in biological classes in order to understand the vital processes of life. They not only provide basic training for...
PROJECTING FURTHER INCREASES IN CONSERVATION TRANSLOCATIONS: A CANADIAN CASE STUDY
Highlights • Conservation translocation is relevant to over one-third of Canadian species at risk. • Recovery documents suggest at least a doubling in future...
ARE THERE ANY FRONTIERS OF RESEARCH PERFORMANCE? EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT OF FUNDED...
Highlights • Measurement of efficiency of research attracts attention in scientometrics. • Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is mainly used for efficiency analyses. • The...
PRODUCTION ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE FISH CULTURE IN DROUGHT PRONE AREAS OF...
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Input management is vital for the adoption of carp culture by resource-poor farmers.•
TOPSIS and quadratic regression are used to evaluate production optimization.•
Optimal choice of...
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE CARP CULTURE POLICIES IN DROUGHT PRONE DISTRICT...
Highlights • Purulia is a drought-prone underdeveloped district of India. • Aquaculture is a viable option to support the economy of the district. •...
THE NEED, OPPORTUNITIES, AND CHALLENGES FOR CREATING A STANDARDIZED FRAMEWORK FOR...
Highlights • The field of marine ecosystem restoration is growing rapidly. • Currently projects are failing to systematically record the outcomes of restoration. •...
BEYOND EUGENICS: THE FORGOTTEN SCANDAL OF HYBRIDIZING HUMANS AND APES
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This paper examines the available evidence on one of the most radical ideas in the history of eugenics and utopianism. In the mid-1920s, the...
MULTI-DIMENSIONAL POVERTY EFFECTS AROUND OPERATIONAL BIOFUEL PROJECTS IN MALAWI, MOZAMBIQUE AND...
Highlights • Sugarcane study sites had lower poverty than the jatropha sites. • Sugarcane farmers and plantation workers had lower poverty than control groups...
CONSIDERATIONS ON SAMPLING STRATEGIES FOR AN HOLISTIC APPROACH TO STOCK IDENTIFICATION:...
Abstract Stock identification research can be classified as an observational study, the main characteristic of sampling being that there is no opportunity to repeat...
STRUCTURAL UNCERTAINTY IN PROJECTING GLOBAL FISHERIES CATCHES UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE
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Three versions of DBEM: DBEM-Basic, DBEM-Maxent and DBEM-Aquamaps have similar skill in predicting the occurrence of exploited species and distribution of observed fisheries production.•
Projections...