All European rice complies with the Integrated Quality Management System for the Agricultural Production of Rice, which is based on good agricultural practices which respect the environment, protect the producer-grower’s health and offer a healthy and safe product for consumers. For more information ...
That’s unfortunate, because these insects are immensely important for keeping invertebrate populations in check, including agricultural and veterinary pests. Wasps are ecologically diverse, skilful nest-builders, have complex biology and social structures (Sumner, 2023), and we have mounting evidence of...
We did the trip discussed and photographed in this post in August and we were lucky with four out of five good weather days and only one rainy day. However, the week before, our driver told us that they had four out of five gray and rainy days, so you just never know and it is b...
This impoverished not just the clans, but the clan chiefs themselves. Those clan chiefs who had been “out” supporting the Jacobite rebellion were stripped of their estates. These were then sold and the profits used to further trade and agricultural improvements, mostly elsewhere. But the harshes...
agricultural activities from climatic drivers of landscape change in the early to mid Holocene in the region, two topographically contrasting sites on the Isle of Skye and the Isle of Bute were investigated. A multiproxy approach including pollen, spore, microcharcoal, loss on ignition and particle...
The building polygon dataset, as the main input of the heating model, contained several errors, such as mislabelling large agricultural buildings as domestic. Care was taken to clean this data, but this could only be validated manually; thus, cleaning was limited to the largest buildings only....