Campanale, Claudia Galafassi, Silvia Savino, Ilaria Massarelli, Carmine Ancona, Valeria Volta, Pietro Uricchio, Vito Felice
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The Science of the total environment
Research on microplastics (MPs) in the terrestrial environment is currently at a still embryonal stage. The current knowledge concerning poorly known diffuse sources of MPs pollution in terrestrial ecosystems have been considered in this work. In addition, a particular focus on the presence, mechanism of absorption and effects of MPs in plants has ...
Epanchin-Niell, Rebecca S Jackson-Smith, Douglas B Wilson, Robyn S Ashenfarb, Matthew Dayer, Ashley A Hillis, Vicken Iacona, Gwenllian D Markowitz, Ezra M Marquart-Pyatt, Sandra T Treakle, Tyler
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Journal of environmental management
Owners and managers of private lands make decisions that have implications well beyond the boundaries of their land, influencing species conservation, water quality, wildfire risk, and other environmental outcomes with important societal and ecological consequences. Understanding how these decisions are made is key for informing interventions to su...
Bhardwaj, Ajay Kumar Arya, Geeta Kumar, Raj Hamed, Lamy Pirasteh-Anosheh, Hadi Jasrotia, Poonam Kashyap, Prem Lal Singh, Gyanendra Pratap
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Journal of Nanobiotechnology
The worldwide agricultural enterprise is facing immense pressure to intensify to feed the world’s increasing population while the resources are dwindling. Fertilizers which are deemed as indispensable inputs for food, fodder, and fuel production now also represent the dark side of the intensive food production system. With most crop production syst...
Vroegindeweij, Bastiaan A. Gené-Mola, Jordi Mencarelli, Angelo Hemming, Jochen Mayer, Nikolaus Wenger, Maximilian Kootstra, Gert
This paper describes a new robot specifically developed for topiary trimming and evaluates its performance through a novel evaluation method. Experiments were carried out in a real garden letting the robot trim spherical-, cylindrical- and cuboid-shaped boxwood topiaries. The robot's performance was evaluated using a quantitative evaluation method,...
Mathivanan, Mahalakshmi Sabarathinam, Chidambaram Mohan Viswanathan, Prasanna Senapathi, Venkatramanan Nadesan, Devaraj Indrani, Gunarani Gunaseelan Malaimegu, Gnanasekar Kumar, Sahoo Sunil
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Environmental research
Uranium (U) in groundwater is hazardous to human health, especially if it is present in drinking water. The semiarid regions of southern India chiefly depend on groundwater for drinking purposes. In this regard, a comprehensive sampling strategy was adopted to collect groundwater representing different lithologies of the region. The samples were co...
Truchy, Amélie Sponseller, Ryan A. Ecke, Frauke Angeler, David G. Kahlert, Maria Bundschuh, Mirco Johnson, Richard K. McKie, Brendan G.
Ecosystem functioning and community structure are recognized as key components of ecosystem integrity, but comprehensive, standardized studies of the responses of both structural and functional indicators to different types of anthropogenic pressures remain rare. Consequently, we lack an empirical basis for (i) identifying when monitoring ecosystem...
Shi, W Fenton, O Ashekuzzaman, S M Daly, K Leahy, J J Khalaf, N Hu, Y Chojnacka, K Numviyimana, C Healy, M G
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Journal of environmental management
The dairy industry produces vast quantities of dairy processing sludge (DPS), which can be processed further to develop second generation products such as struvite, biochars and ashes (collectively known as STRUBIAS). These bio-based fertilizers have heterogeneous nutrient and metal contents, resulting in a range of possible application rates. To a...
Cramer, Mary E Habecker, Patrick Wendl, Mary Sayles, Harlan Rautiainen, Risto Dombrowski, Kirk
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Journal of agromedicine
We conducted a social network analysis (SNA) of Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health (CS-CASH) to describe stakeholder networks for agricultural Research and Education/Outreach. This was a two-phase study. First, the Leader Survey went to N = 9 CS-CASH leaders to identify their key stakeholders. Next, the Stakeholder Survey was ...
Toillier, Aurélie Kola, Prosper
Cet article s’intéresse au rôle des pratiques de gestion interorganisationnelles (PGIO) dans le fonctionnement de communautés qui ne parviennent pas à faire aboutir leur innovation. À partir d’une revue de littérature croisant les approches stratégiques réseaux et les approches de gestion de l’innovation, un cadre d’analyse a été conçu pour explore...
Coggins, Sam McCampbell, Mariette Sharma, Akriti Sharma, Rama Haefele, Stephan M. Karki, Emma Hetherington, Jack Smith, Jeremy Brown, Brendan
Digital extension tools (DETs) include phone calls, WhatsApp groups and specialised smartphone applications used for agricultural knowledge brokering. We researched processes through which DETs have (and have not) been used by farmers and other extension actors in low- and middle-income countries. We interviewed 40 DET developers across 21 countrie...
