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Biodiversity Conservation in Britain: Science Replacing
Tradition
A dead tree in the sun is only slightly more use ... specialised to live in transient habitats where factors such as the weather, nutrients and other abiotic stresses constrain their populations, to species in which other species are more influential. Many late- ...
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ABIOTIC STRESS 2000
In agricultural systems, even if conditions tend to be optimized, the effect of abiotic stresses deriving from changes in the physico-chemical environment is evident at the quantitative ... more general level, measures applied to improve plant production and mitigate the consequences of abiotic stresses on production imply chemical and energetical inputs which can have a detrimental effect ...
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the sugar trehalose imparts stress tolerance in plants
Trehalose has recently ben studied extensively for its ability to improve cold and salt ... 10.1073/pnas.252637799 Trehalose accumulation in rice plants confers high tolerance levels to different abiotic stresses Ajay K. Garg , Ju-Kon Kim , Thomas G. Owens , Anil P. Ranwala , Yang Do Choi ...
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Report 331 - Whole Ecosystem Nitrogen Manipulation: An Updated Review
European experiments, increased nitrogen deposition has been related to increased vulnerability to biotic and abiotic stresses, such as frost, drought and herbivory. Effects on mycorrhizae are varied, with both increases, decreases ...
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soils resource paper
Andes study strongly includes off farm ... techniques are utilized varies depending on cultural background, economics, experience and education. Mountjoy (1996) stresses the importance of the social and cultural contexts of individual behavior, as well as ...
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Earham College-Biology226-Blueheaded Wrasse
Many different abiotic, and biotic forms of disturbance that affect coral reefs include: coral bleaching, human harvesting, ... water where it is the sunniest (Ocean World, 2003). When sea temperatures rise or other stresses occur the corals expel their zooxanthellae. This is called coral bleaching. One environmental concern ...
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Screening of cowpea, bambara groundnut and AMARANTHUS germplasm for drought tolerance and testing of the selected plant material in participatation with targeted communities
Drought is a very common abiotic stress condition, thus economically important crops with high levels of drought tolerance are of great ... others is of great value. Average losses of some major crop plants due to environmental stresses may amount to 50-80% of their genetically determined productivity. The highest proportion of yield ...
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Reef Relief - Coral Reef Conservation: Science Education News Photos and Information
Once insulated from the Miami mainland and the stresses of urban living by a thin, treacherous roadway and 32 bridges, the Keys' corals have ... such circumstances determines which animals and plants can be found where. These influences are called abiotic factors. Relations between the organisms determine the detailed composition of that ecosystem (e.g. predators ...
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Growing Diversity | www.grain.org/gd/
In numerous traditional farming systems, several species are planted together as a hedge ...
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Poster Abstracts from USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Science Meetings, October, 2006
AT Wetlands of Acadia National Park are threatened by a suite of anthropogenic stresses associated with increasing visitor pressure and rapid residential development of watersheds outside the ... identify areas of management concern. Through a preliminary pilot project, we identified several abiotic and biotic variables that showed significant differences between herbaceous emergent wetlands subject ...
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