conducted in the 1980s, is estimated to run to £15 billion. The UK government's Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) estimates that this facility could save 5.6 Mt carbon dioxide per year, in comparison to new-built gas-fired power plants. The carbon footprint of building the barrage would be paid back in 5–8 months, according to the SDC. The concept is based on proven technology, as a simi...

In the context of coastal marshland reduction due to sea level rise, we evaluated value fragmented reed beds located within agricultural polders for conservation habitats exploited by passerines characterized different ecological requirements. Although our study was carried out sites sampled over years, analyses body condition and diet birds during breeding period, as well local daily survival ...

Obligate aerobic AMF taxa have high species richness under waterlogged conditions, but their ecological role remains unclear. Here we focused on AM fungal mediation of plant interactions in a marshland plant community. Five cooccurring plant species were chosen for a neighbor removal experiment in which benomyl was used to suppress AMF colonization. A Phragmites australis removal experiment was...

Abstract Background Public interest in the way food is produced on farm and processed along food-production chain increasing. The analysis of isotopic signatures ( 13 C) cow tail hair provides a method to reconstruct dietary proportion maize diets. Based this, we further investigated whether there relationship between or slurry total utilized agricultural area per [%]. We did an on-farm survey ...