Resident fruit microflora has been the source of biocontrol agents for the control of postharvest decay of fruits and the active ingredient in commercialized biocontrol products. With the exception of grapes and apples, information on the resident microflora of other fruits is only fragmentary, but greater knowledge in this area can be very helpful in developing biocontrol strategies. We charac...

Sustainable harvest, the extraction of game without affecting population viability, is a desirable approach to the use of wildlife. However, overharvest has been responsible for the decline of many wildlife populations globally, so there is an urgent need to balance human requirements while avoiding the severe depletion of wild populations. Northern common eiders Somateria mollissima borealis a...

Eastern spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana Clem.) is considered the most important disturbing insect in coniferous stands eastern North America. During an outbreak, can cause severe defoliation balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.), which affect wood properties such as moisture content and mechanical properties. This project aimed to assess influence of duration on quality mature trees. ...

In past years we have witnessed remarkable progress in the study of exclusive charmless B decays. Experimentally, CLEO [1] has discovered many new two-body decay modes B ! K ; K; K; K ; K ; 0 ; !K and found a possible evidence for B ! K . Moreover, CLEO has provided new improved upper limits for many other decay modes. While all the measured channels are penguin dominated, the most recently obs...

6 Recent advances in technology have produced a significant increase in the avail7 ability of free sensor data over the Internet. With affordable weather monitoring 8 stations now available to individual meteorology enthusiasts, a reservoir of real 9 time data such as temperature, rainfall and wind speed can now be obtained for 10 most of the world. Despite the abundance of available data, the ...

One challenge facing today’s forest managers is how to preserve biological diversity while maintaining a competitive forest industry. These two objectives are frequently at odds. A new approach to landscape management in the Sub-Boreal Spruce (SBS) zone is suggested here. This approach calls for larger harvest units coupled with irregular boundaries, large leave areas outside the harvest zone, ...

Upland rice is typically grown under slash-and-burn systems in the mountainous regions of northern Laos by resource-poor farmers for subsistence. Upland rice cultivars are all traditional and no fertilizer inputs are used. In these systems, grain yields average only 1.7 t/ha. A multi-site experiment was conducted in Luang Prabang province to examine cultivar and fertilizer effects on grain yiel...

Consumer demand for plant and animal products threatens many populations with extinction. The anthropogenic Allee effect (AAE) proposes that such extinctions can be caused by prices for wildlife products increasing with species rarity. This price-rarity relationship creates financial incentives to extract the last remaining individuals of a population, despite higher search and harvest costs. T...