Poultry farming is one of the most efficient animal husbandry methods and it provides nutritional security to a significant number of the world population. Using modern intensive farming techniques, global production has reached 133.4 mil. t in 2020, with a steady growth each year. Such intensive ...
Ventilation of health hazardous aerosol pollution within the planetary boundary layer (PBL) – the lowest layer of the atmosphere – is dependent upon turbulent mixing, which again is closely linked to the height of the PBL. Here we show that emissions o
particularly producers5. Therefore, there is a clear and urgent need to identify which food web compartments (decomposers, primary consumers, predators) are most vulnerable to rainfall fluctuations and extremes5,6. Whereas multitrophic research has focused on a single direction of extreme change, espec...
Greater numbers of individuals of the most abundant species were found for Eunica tatila and Hamadryas februa sampled across both transects (Figure 1). In Transect I, the forest fragment exhibited significantly higher species abundance than the pasture area (Figure 1a,b). A similar pattern was...
Fungi are often inconspicuous in nature and this means it is all too easy to overlook their importance. Often referred to as the “Forgotten Kingdom”, fungi are key components of life on this planet. The phylum Basidiomycota, considered to contain the most complex and evolutionarily advanced me...
Although research on biochar has received increasing attention for environmental and agricultural applications, the significance of nanobiochar for environmental pollutant remediation is poorly understood. In contrast to bulk biochar, nanobiochar has superior physicochemical properties such as high catalytic acti...
For example, if we are building a system that turns water red when a pollutant is detected, we can break it down into two separate devices, one that detects the pol- lutant and another that produces red pigment. These simpler tasks are then solved by players (i.e., collaborators or ...
Seagrasses are among the most efficient sinks of carbon dioxide on Earth. While carbon sequestration in terrestrial plants is linked to the microorganisms living in their soils, the interactions of seagrasses with their rhizospheres are poorly understood
Since the colonization of land by ancestral plant lineages 450 million years ago, plants and their associated microbes have been interacting with each other, forming an assemblage of species that is often referred to as a “holobiont.” Selective pressur
This is so since all the RCPs included similar assumptions about future air pollution legislation, assuming that the stringency of respective emissions standards would increase with raising affluence. It was not intended that the RCPs cover the full range of possible air pollutant emissions. In ...