Tree growth, biomass productivity, litterfall mass and nutrient content, changes in soil chemical properties and understory forest succession were evaluated over a 8.5-year period in singleand mixed-species (50 : 50) plantations of two N2-®xing species, Casuarina equisetifolia and Leucaena leucocephala, and a non-®xing species, Eucalyptus robusta. At the optimal harvest age for maximum biomass ...

Lianas are increasing in relative abundance and biomass many tropical forests. We tested the hypothesis that lianas conform to fast acquisitive end of continuum plant strategies, allowing acquire resources faster than trees. assessed functional traits representative leaf (LES) wood economics spectrum (WES), including hydraulics, 16 liana tree species canopy two forests at extremes climatic geol...

The investigation was carried out with the aim to identify specific yield limiting nutrients through response of rice nutrient omission in pot culture under completely randomized design 3 replications and 11 treatments during kharif season 2017 demonstrate optimum use identified wheat crop at field level Kondagaon district rabi 2017-18. were formulated by keeping one treatment application all o...

Litter dynamics is one of the fundamental processes for growth and maintenance native forest fragments, being considered main pathway nutrient cycling in forests. Studies on litter production content therefore provide insights that a better understanding dynamics. This study identifies seasonality meteorological conditions influence quantity return nutrients through an Atlantic Forest fragment....

During the summer of 2020, NASA returned to launching astronauts International Space Station (ISS) from American soil. By 2024, NASA's mission is return Moon, and by 2028 create a sustainable presence. Long duration missions come with obstacles, especially when trying environment in location where “living off land” impossible. Some resources on Moon can be recovered or resupplied; however, many...

The diversity of the rhizosphere arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) community is a crucial factor affecting root-soil interaction. They can absorb carbohydrates from host body and return nutrient elements soil to host. Using 15 Chinese fir ( Cunninghamia lanceolata Lamb. Hook.) clones, AMF richness, abundance structure in “Root system-Rhizosphere soil-Bulk soil” were obtained by Real-time quant...

The paper discusses ensemble behaviour in the Spiking Neuron Stochastic Diffusion Network, SNSDN, a novel network exploring biologically plausible information processing based on higher order temporal coding. SNSDN was proposed as an alternative solution to the binding problem [1]. SNSDN operation resembles Stochastic Diffusion Search, SDS, a nondeterministic search algorithm able to rapidly lo...

Worldwide, algal biofuel research and development efforts have focused on increasing the competitiveness of algal biofuels by increasing the energy and financial return on investments, reducing water intensity and resource requirements, and increasing algal productivity. In this study, analyses are presented in each of these areas—costs, resource needs, and productivity—for two cases: (1) an Ex...

The workflow begins with the collection of coastal marine waters for downstream microbial community, nutrient and trace gas analyses. For this method, samples were collected from the deck of the HMS John Strickland operating in Saanich Inlet. This video documents large volume (> or = 20 L) filtration of microbial biomass, ranging between 0.22 microm and 2.7 microm in diameter, from the water co...

Recent work has identified a worldwide "economic" spectrum of correlated leaf traits that affects global patterns of nutrient cycling and primary productivity and that is used to calibrate vegetation-climate models. The correlation patterns are displayed by species from the arctic to the tropics and are largely independent of growth form or phylogeny. This generality suggests that unidentified ...