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The 'anthropause', a period of unusually reduced human activity and mobility due to COVID-19 restrictions, has serendipitously opened up unique opport...

Generalist insect predators provide an important ecosystem service in the regulation of agricultural pests. However, the role of predation in the dyna...

Twelve-year old cv. Valencia orange trees were subjected to a single water stress, under field conditions at Tacna, Arizona, inducing leaf water poten...

Soil quality is an important determinant of primary productivity and species occurrence patterns. Therefore, plant species composition can be used as ...

Weeds play an important role in arable and horticultural habitats, and models are being developed to improve our understanding of their population dyn...

Pleiotropic effects associated with genes endowing resistance to herbicides are generally predicted to reduce plant fitness. Quantifying these effects...

Net CO₂ uptake over 24-h periods was determined in the field under various conditions. In Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, which is near the centre of dist...

The use of container-grown plants in restoring shingle beach vegetation was investigated at Sizewell, Suffolk, UK, where the vegetation had been destr...

Slugs are a serious pest of many crops, including winter wheat, but current methods of control are unreliable. As part of a research study into the po...

The saltmarshes of south-east England are eroding rapidly. Field and laboratory experiments were used to test the hypotheses that: (i) at the mudflat-...