Duarte, Liliana Neto Marchante, Elizabete Marchante, Hélia
Published in
Frontiers in Environmental Science
Conservation of biodiversity in protected areas is often threatened by invasive alien plants (IAPs), and its successful management requires proper planning, resources, and monitoring to adjust future interventions. Although follow-up controls and evaluation of different management actions through monitoring programs are crucial in an adaptive manag...
Martin, François-Marie Dommanget, Fanny Evette, André
In a recent paper, Jones et al. (2020a) claimed that we recommended the use of mowing for the "landscape management of invasive knotweeds" in an article we published earlier this year (i.e. Martin et al. 2020), a recommendation with which they strongly disagreed. Since we never made such a recommendation and since we think that, in order to success...
Gou, Jia Stotsky, Jay A Othmer, Hans G
Published in
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Systems biology and medicine
The regulation of size and shape is a fundamental requirement of biological development and has been a subject of scientific study for centuries, but we still lack an understanding of how organisms know when to stop growing. Imaginal wing disks of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, which are precursors of the adult wings, are an archetypal tiss...
Chanut, Nicolas Ghoufi, Aziz Coulet, Marie-Vanessa Bourrelly, Sandrine Kuchta, Bodgan Maurin, Guillaume Llewellyn, Philip L.
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Nature Communications
Separation of gasses with similar physical and chemical properties can be energy demanding, and adsorption-based technologies may provide alternatives with lower energy consumption. Here, the authors show mechanical control of pore size aperture in flexible metal-organic frameworks for separation of gasses.
RAIMONDI, R.T. CONSTANTIN, J. MENDES, R.R. OLIVEIRA JR., R.S. RIOS, F.A.
ABSTRACT: Currently, sourgrass is one of the most important weeds in grain production areas in Brazil. The objective of this work was to evaluate the efficiency of associated systems composed by mowing and chemical control against clumped sourgrass. In the first experiment, different mowing heights (0, 5, 10, 15 and 20 cm), coupled with complementa...
Rouifed, Soraya Cottet, Marylise De Battista, Margot Le Lay, Yves-François Rateau, Patrick Rivière-Honegger, Anne Piola, Florence
The management of some invasive plant species is difficult because species can exhibit high productivity despite control measures. Inefficient control methods may even produce unwanted side effects. We conducted an experimental study on Fallopia spp., a major invasive plant in Europe. We tested the effects of two different stem-cutting frequencies ...
Santana, João Elves da Silva Leles, Paulo Sérgio dos Santos Resende, Alexander Silva de Machado, Aroldo Ferreira Lopes Ribeiro, Juçara Garcia Gomes, Rodrigo Ferreira
Abstract This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of four weed control strategies in forest setting stands linked by a set of Atlantic Forest tree species. Four treatments were employed: mechanical – manual hoeing and mowing; chemical – glyphosate herbicide application in the total area; chemical – cultural – herbicide spraying and herbaceous l...
Metličar, Valentina Vovk, Irena Albreht, Alen
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Plants
Japanese knotweed ( Fallopia japonica Houtt.) and Bohemian knotweed ( Fallopia x bohemica ) are invasive alien plant species, causing great global ecological and economic damage. Mechanical excavation of plant material represents an effective containment method, but it is not economically and environmentally sustainable as it produces an excessive ...
Chikoye, David Ekeleme, F. Hauser, S. Menkir, A. a.y., kamara Neuenschwander, P. Ajuonu, O. Ajeigbe, Hakeem A.
Frank, Daniel L.
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Insects
Bagging fruit with plastic, paper, and two-layer commercial bags was evaluated for control of insect pests and diseases in an experimental apple orchard planted with ‘Red Delicious’ trees. Results from fruit damage evaluations at harvest showed that bagging significantly reduced fruit damage from direct apple pests compared with non-bagged control ...
