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Mariarosaria Sicignano, Luisa del Piano, Luigi Morra, Tommaso Enotrio, Salvatore Baiano, Antonio Salluzzo, Antonio Merola and Francesco Raimo
The use of peat, the standard substrate used for soilless cultivation of horticultural crops, is becoming of increasing concern as peat is a non-renewable resource and its extraction can degrade wetland ecosystems, creating a strong environmental impact....
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Marta M. Moreno, Sara González-Mora, Jaime Villena and Carmen Moreno
Organic hydromulches (liquid spray-on mulches) have been used traditionally in land rehabilitation, mainly to mitigate post-fire runoff and erosion. However, in recent years, a new application of these materials as an eco-friendly alternative to the wide...
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Tadeusz Malewski, Piotr Borowik, Ireneusz Olejarski, Artur Rutkiewicz, Adam Okorski and Tomasz Oszako
Afforestation of former agricultural land poses a real challenge for foresters because soil life is often severely limited by the loss of natural soil fungal diversity. In addition, former agricultural soils have low levels of fungal species typical of f...
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Dashuai Zhang, Yao Dai, Lingli Wang and Liang Chen
During rapid urbanization, it is necessary to increase soil permeability and soil porosity for reducing urban runoff and waterlogging risk. Woody plants are known to increase soil porosity and preferential flow in soil via living roots growth and dead ro...
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Rayka Kristian Alves Santos,Paulo Araquém Ramos Cairo,Romário Pereira Barbosa,Janderson de Jesus Lacerda,Caio da Silva Mafra Neto,Theilon Henrique de Jesus Macedo
Pág. 1072 - 1081
Biostimulants consist of a mixture of growth regulators that, when they are sprayed on plants, act on hormonal balance, enhancing its development. Stimulate® is a biostimulant composed by indole butyric acid (0.005%), kinetin (0.009%) and gibberellic aci...
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Md. Shawkat I. Sohel, Mohammed Abdus Salam and John Herbohn
In the face of global climate change, water availability and its impact on forest productivity is becoming an increasingly important issue. It is therefore necessary to evaluate the advancement of research in this field and to set new research priorities...
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R. James Ansley, Tian Zhang and Caitlyn Cooper
Honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) is an invasive native woody plant in the southern Great Plains, USA. Treatments used to slow the invasion rate have either killed the plant (?root-kill?) or killed above-ground tissue (?top-kill?). Top-killing provide...
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Changzhu Li, Liangbo Zhang, Zhihong Xiao, Peiwang Li, Rukuan Liu, Jingzhen Chen, Zhenxiang He, Jie Fu
Pág. 283 - 287
Energy demand is increasing dramatically due to the fast industrial development, rising population, expanding urbanization, and economic growth in the world and large amount of fossil fuels are widely used. The depletion of fossil fuel reserves and the e...
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Héctor Mancilla, Karla Quiroz, Ariel Arencibia, Basilio Carrasco, Rolando García-Gonzales
Pág. 609 - 615
. Luma chequen, a small tree or large shrub belonging to the Myrtaceae family, is endemic to South America and has medicinal, nutritional and ornamental potential. However, its native habitat is deteriorating gradually, and it is suffering from the effec...
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Jose Ramon Arevalo,J D Delgado,J M Fernandez-Palacios
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Exotic tree monocultures adversely affect native ecosystems through competition and alteration of nutrient availability and dynamics. However, there is evidence of some tree plantations facilitating a more rapid recovery of the native plant communities b...
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