Now showing items 1871-1877 of 1877
Urban Landscape Effects on Bees and Food Production
(2017)
Bees are a critically important functional group, contributing to the pollination of many of the world’s leading food crops and flowering plants, but concern is growing over signals of bee declines. Habitat loss associated ...
The Impact of Microbial Interactions and Hydrogen Peroxide on Western Lake Erie Cyanobacterial Blooms
(2021)
Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (CHABs) are threats to freshwaters globally. Some strains of the harmful cyanobacterium, Microcystis, produce microcystins, toxins that sicken animals and people. The proportions of ...
Oak Forests, Lopping, and the Transformation of Rural Society in Central Himalaya, India.
(2009)
Villagers are blamed for degrading the forest by lopping oak branches for fodder in the Central Himalayan region of India. Yet, research is lacking on the direct relationship between peoples’ livelihood, lopping, and forest ...
Hsp70 chaperone Proteins and their Interactions with Various Drugs as Studied by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
(2011)
Chaperone proteins and their cochaperones are perhaps one of the most intriguing systems for investigation. Ubiquitous in nature, they can be found in every organism and that perhaps is the reason that their sequence shows ...
From Food Security to Farm to Formicidae: Belo Horizonte, Brazil's Secretaria Municipal de Abastecimento and Biodiversity in the Fragmented Atlantic Rainforest.
(2009)
Widespread food insecurity and rapid biodiversity loss are two of the most serious problems facing the world today. My work in this area focuses on two important questions: how can we address hunger in a world that ...
Ecological Consequences of Hypoxia for Yellow Perch (Perca Flavescens) in Lake Erie.
(2010)
Hypoxia (<2 mg O2•L-1) is a widespread phenomenon in marine and freshwater
systems worldwide, yet the ecological consequences of hypoxia are generally unknown,
especially for mobile species such as fish. Areas of hypoxic ...
Discovery of rosin-based acylhydrazone derivatives as potential antifungal agents against rice Rhizoctonia solani for sustainable crop protection
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2023-02)
BACKGROUNDThe use of fungicides to protect crops from diseases is an effective method, and novel environmentally friendly plant-derived fungicides with enhanced performance and low toxicity are urgent requirements for ...