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Elsa M. Gonçalves, Mafalda Silva, Luiza Andrade and Joaquina Pinheiro
In the wake of escalating global concerns over the environmental impact of plastic pollution, there has been an unprecedented call for sustainable alternatives. The food-packaging industry, responsible for a staggering 40% of global plastic consumption, ...
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Kestutis Romaneckas, Austeja ?vereikaite, Rasa Kimbirauskiene, Au?ra Sinkeviciene and Jovita Balandaite
Agriculture uses a lot of fuel, fertilizers, pesticides and other substances, while emitting large amounts of GHGs. It is important to optimize these inputs and outputs. One such way is by increasing crop biodiversity. For this reason, single crops and m...
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Emad Farahani, Andre C. Liberati, Amirhossein Mahdavi, Pantcho Stoyanov, Christian Moreau and Ali Dolatabadi
Ice formation affects the performance of many industrial components, including aircraft wings, spacecraft, and power transmission cables. In particular, ice build-up on airplane components increases drag and fuel consumption. A large number of studies ha...
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Abo El-Khair B. El-Sayed, Nashwa A. Fetyan, Farahat S. Moghanm, Mohssen Elbagory, Fatma M. Ibrahim, Mahmoud W. Sadik and Mohamed S. Shokr
The Chrythophyta alga Nannochloropsis oculata was mixotrophically grown in artificial media enriched with acid-prehydrolyzed bagasse waste as a source of organic carbon. The used growth medium was composed of F2 nutrients, sea salt (22.0 g L-1), and baga...
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Emmanuel Ahaotu,W Onuoha,G Uwaleke,E. A. Agiang
The study was undertaken on utilization of farm animal organic waste as feeds for livestock and poultry. Increasing feed costs and international concern for the conservation of resources have focused attention on the nutrients in animal wastes that have ...
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Theano Samara, Dimitrios Raptis and Ioannis Spanos
The peri-urban and urban forests in Greece occupy a total area of 105.353 ha. In these vulnerable ecosystems, fire constitutes a natural disaster presenting particular challenges and specific difficulties. These include the high number of visitors as wel...
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Pradip Saud, Douglas Cram, Samuel Smallidge and Terrell Baker
Coarse woody debris (CWD) is an important component in the structure and function of southwestern mixed-conifer forest ecosystems. However, fire suppression and exclusion policies have changed the structure and fuel loads, including CWD, during the last ...
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Robert E. Keane
Wildfire in declining whitebark pine forests can be a tool for ecosystem restoration or an ecologically harmful event. This document presents a set of possible wildfire management practices for facilitating the restoration of whitebark pine across its ra...
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Kevin Barnett, Sean A. Parks, Carol Miller and Helen T. Naughton
In the United States, fuel reduction treatments are a standard land management tool to restore the structure and composition of forests that have been degraded by past management. Although treatments can have multiple purposes, their principal objective ...
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Cristina Fernández Filgueira,José A. Vega Hidalgo
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Aim of study: To evaluate how a plant community responded to a backfire that occurred four years after application of different types of fuel-reduction treatments.Area of study: Erica umbellata Loefl. (L.)-dominated heathland in Galicia (NW Spain).Materi...
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