Terrestrial desert ecosystems are strongly structured by the distribution of plants, which concentrate resources and create islands of fertility relative to interplant spaces. Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition resulting from urbanization has the potential to change those spatial patterns via resource inputs, resulting in more homogeneous soil resource availability. We sampled soils at 12 dese...

The Gollum Channels and Whittard Canyon (NE Atlantic) are two areas that receive high input of organic matter and phytodetritus from euphotic layers, but they are typified by different trophic and hydrodynamic conditions. Sediment biogeochemistry was analysed in conjunction with structure and diversity of the nematode community and differences were tested between study areas, water depths (700 ...

Seeds of 200 accessions of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) were provided from Iraniannatural resource gene bank and were sown as drilled plot using alpha designs/unreplicatedwith 2 repeated entries within all of 10 blocks under dry land farming system in agriculturalresearch center of Hamadan, Iran during 2009 to 2010. The data were collected and analyzedfor plant height, stem number, leaf stem ra...

Twentyfour surface soil samples (0-30 cm) collected from salt affected area of Vasantdada Sugarcane Research and Development farm Manjari(Bkk.), Pune, Maharashtra (India) were studied for the Cu, Zn, Fe and Mn status in relation to important soil factors. All the soil samples had adequate amount of Cu, Zn, Fe and Mn. Iron and Maganese are significantly positively correlated with organic carbon,...

The use of pesticides in modern agriculture is unavoidable because they are required to control weeds. Pesticides are poisonous; hence, they are dangerous if misused. Understanding the fate of pesticides will be useful to use them safely. Therefore, contaminations of water and soil resources could be avoided. The fates of pesticides in soils are influenced by their sorption, decomposition and m...

Fungal and actinobacterial communities were analyzed together with soil chemistry and enzyme activities in order to profile the microbial diversity associated with the economically important mushroom Tricholoma matsutake. Samples of mycelium-soil aggregation (shiro) were collected from three experimental sites where sporocarps naturally formed. PCR was used to confirm the presence and absence o...

Empathy is a multi-faceted concept consisting of our ability not only to share emotions but also to exert cognitive control and perspective taking in our interactions with others. Here we examined whether inter-individual variability in different components of empathy was related to differences in brain structure assessed using voxel-based morphometry. Following a magnetic resonance imaging (MR...