ROME The World Food Programme (WFP) appealed today for US$9.4 million in emergency food aid for poor farmers and their families in five countries of Central America where the El Nio meteorological phenomenon has caused drought and floods. The aid would go to 323,000 people, more than half ...
2. Two-views of nest boxes for bird protection 3. Nest predation 4. Competition 5. Parental behavior 6. Parasite infestation 7. Microenvironments and nest boxes 8. Conclusion and prospects Authors’ contributions Ethics statement Declaration of competing interest Acknowledgments References Related Artic...
Today the utilization of chitosan nanoparticles (ChNPs) in agriculture is a viable and economical substitute for the application of hazardous chemicals. Therefore, the production of green-synthesized ChNPs could benefit the agricultural industry [34]. ChNPs and their Nano formulations have been the ...
Melatonin has been found to be crucial in the growth and development of plants under stress conditions. In this study, the effects of melatonin and nano melatonin regarding the growth and development of tomato plants, along with their photosynthetic pigment, phenol, and antioxidant activity, were i...
Climate change is altering the functioning of foundational ecosystems. While the direct effects of warming are expected to influence individual species, the indirect effects of warming on species interactions remain poorly understood. In marine systems, as tropical herbivores undergo poleward range expansio...
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6 To gain the effects of N fertilizer applications on N2O emissions and local climate change in fertilized rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) plantations in the tropics, we measured N2O fluxes from fertilized (75 kg N ha−1 yr−1) and unfertilized rubber plantations at Xishuangbanna in southwest ...
in plants that improve their tolerance and yield under limited water availability. This innovative technique holds promise for cultivating crops in sustainable agriculture practices, as it contributes to the development of drought-tolerant varieties and enables efficient utilization of water resources [6]....
Hence, safe and efficient use of saline water is needed for agricultural irrigation, and appropriate methods and technologies should be implemented to alleviate the exces- sive accumulation of soil salinity for crop production3. Moreover, modern efforts in agriculture and forestry are now aimed at ...
Yagi et al.13 analyzed Japanese rice highest oxidation potential in both of the plots, either Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Agriculture and GHGs Mitigation, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China. Correspondence and requests for ...