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Gergely Ámon, Katalin Bene, Richard Ray, Zoltán Gribovszki and Péter Kalicz
More frequent high-intensity, short-duration rainfall events increase the risk of flash floods on steeply sloped watersheds. Where measured data are unavailable, numerical models emerge as valuable tools for predicting flash floods. Recent applications o...
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Haile Tewolde, Thomas R. Way, Normie Buehring and Johnie N. Jenkins
Poultry litter (PL) is known to have residual effects on crop productivity long after applications cease. Whether this advantage is greater if applied by subsurface vs. surface broadcast is unknown. The objective of this study was to determine whether th...
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Jinling Liu, Zhihua Chen, Yunhui Li, Danying Chen, Yulin He, Benliang Zhao, Yuexin Liao and Jing Guo
Invasive species have had substantial impacts on global mangrove forests. Apple snails (Pomacea canaliculata) have invaded mangrove forests in China. To clarify the potential detritivorous diet of P. canaliculata, the growth and feeding indicators of inv...
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Daniele Trogu, Simone Simeone, Andrea Ruju, Marco Porta, Angelo Ibba and Sandro DeMuro
This paper investigates the dynamics of the cross-shore extensions of banquettes, a sedimentary structure mostly made by rests of Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile, in a sandy urban beach located in the Gulf of Cagliari, Italy, western Mediterranean. A vide...
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Magnolia del Carmen Tzec-Gamboa, Oscar Omar Álvarez-Rivera, Luis Ramírez y Avilés and Francisco Javier Solorio-Sánchez
Decomposition and N release pattern from the leaves of three shrubs species were studied under field conditions. Leaves of Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.), Guazuma ulmifolia (Lam.) and Moringa oleifera (Lam.) and two mixtures, Leucaena + Moringa and Leucaen...
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Theocharis Chatzistathis, Christos Chatzissavvidis, Athanasios Papaioannou and Ioannis E. Papadakis
The recent energy crisis has increased the cost of fertilization for olive growers. This is why alternative nutrient sources, such as manures and other organic materials, could be used to sustain olive production within the framework of sustainable agric...
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Xuan Xu, Penghe Cao, Yuchao Wang, Wei Wu, Jiahuan Guo, Jiejie Sun, Xiaoming Zou, Weifeng Wang and Honghua Ruan
The soil food web is essential for the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. The application of naphthalene is a commonly employed experimental treatment for expelling soil fauna to examine faunal effects on litter decomposition processes, for which is ...
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George L. Vourlitis, Emma Lousie van der Veen, Sebastian Cangahuala, Garrett Jaeger, Colin Jensen, Cinzia Fissore, Eric M. Wood, Joel K. Abraham, Kevin S. Whittemore, Elijah Slaven, Dustin VanOverbeke, James Blauth, Elizabeth Braker, Nina Karnovsky and Wallace M. Meyer III
Urban landscaping conversions can alter decomposition processes and soil respiration, making it difficult to forecast regional CO2 emissions. Here we explore rates of initial mass loss and net nitrogen (N) mineralization in natural and four common urban ...
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Shaqian Liu, Rui Yang, Xudong Peng, Chunlan Hou, Juebing Ma and Jiarui Guo
Plant litter decomposition and its effect on soil nutrients are important parts of the ecosystem material cycle, and understanding these processes is key for species selection and allocation to promote the effective use of litter in ecological tea garden...
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Kaliyamoorthy Kalidasan, Laurent Dufossé, Gunasekaran Manivel, Poomalai Senthilraja and Kandasamy Kathiresan
This work studied the antioxidant and anti-colorectal cancer properties of a potential strain of thraustochytrids, Schizochytrium sp. (SMKK1), isolated from mangrove leaf litter. The biomass was extracted with methanol and screened for antioxidant activi...
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