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Total dry matter, nutrient uptake and yield of summer mungbean as influenced by organic management practices.

Published online: 17 Oct 2018

Authors: Yadav, S. K. & Babalad, H. B. & Sharma, S. K. & Yadav, M. K. & Roshan Choudhary

Content type: Bulletin article; Conference paper

The experiment was conducted at MARS, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka state during summer season of 2013-14. Significantly hig...

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Factors influencing molehill distribution in grassland: implications for controlling the damage caused by molehills.

Published online: 05 Aug 1999

Authors: Edwards, G. R. & Crawley, M. J. & Heard, M. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The possibility of controlling molehill distribution by using management procedures that alter the availability of earthworms, the principal food of m...

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Restoration of grassland after magnesian limestone quarrying.

Published online: 22 Jul 1986

Authors: Richardson, J. A. & Evans, M. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Dactylis glomerata, 18 other grass spp. and 5 legume spp. were grown in mixtures and in pure stands on magnesian limestone waste from 1971. In the gre...

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Urban cultivation in allotments maintains soil qualities adversely affected by conventional agriculture.

Published online: 06 Aug 2014

Authors: Edmondson, J. L. & Davies, Z. G. & Gaston, K. J. & Leake, J. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Modern agriculture, in seeking to maximize yields to meet growing global food demand, has caused loss of soil organic carbon (SOC) and compaction, imp...

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Science to support climate-smart agricultural development: concepts and results from the MICCA pilot projects in East Africa.

Published online: 04 May 2016

Authors: Rosenstock, T. S. & Mpanda, M. & Kimaro, A. & Luedeling, E. & Kuyah, S. & Anyekulu, E. & Freeman, O. E. & Thiong'o, M. & Abwanda, S. & Mutuo, P. & Mativo, J. & Shaba, S. & Kirui, J. & Franzel, S. & Neufeldt, H. & Shepherd, K. & Neely, C.

Content type: Miscellaneous

This document reports on the concepts driving the scientific activities of FAO's Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture Programme's pilot project...

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Expansion of invasive species on ombrotrophic bogs: desiccation or high N deposition?

Published online: 24 Mar 2004

Authors: Tomassen, H. B. M. & Smolders, A. J. P. & Limpens, J. & Lamers, L. P. M. & Roelofs, J. G. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In many ombrotrophic bog areas the invasion of grass (e.g. Molinia caerulea) and tree (e.g. Betula pubescens) species has become a major problem. We i...

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Soil protist functional composition shifts with atmospheric nitrogen deposition in subtropical forests.

Published online: 01 Dec 2023

Authors: Wang JianQing & Zheng ChengYang & Lucas-Borja, M. E. & Shi XiuZhen

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Soil protists play a key role in driving ecological functions through predation and parasitism. However, little is known about how nitrogen (N) deposi...

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Restoration of a ponderosa pine forest increases soil CO2 efflux more than either water or nitrogen additions.

Published online: 04 Jun 2008

Authors: Selmants, P. C. & Hart, S. C. & Boyle, S. I. & Gehring, C. A. & Hungate, B. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Ecological restoration often involves returning ecosystem structure to some predisturbance reference state, but ecosystem function must also recover i...

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Nitrogen mobilization by earthworms in limed peat soils under Picea sitchensis.

Published online: 13 Mar 1993

Authors: Robinson, C. H. & Ineson, P. & Piearce, T. G. & Rowland, A. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Laboratory experiments were conducted to determine whether common species of earthworms could survive and grow in limed peat for several months. Survi...

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Tolerance of heavy metals and the reclamation of industrial waste.

Published online: 12 Jan 1970

Authors: Gadgil, R. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The Zn and Cu tolerance of populations of Agrostis tenuis, A. stolonifera, Anthoxanthum odoratum, Festuca rubra and F. ovina was tested on root growth...

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