Home gardens are defined as less complex agroforests which look like and function as natural forest ecosystems but are integrated into agricultural management systems located around houses. Investigations were carried out in 187 households. The aim of the study was to identify the different types of banana home gardens existing in the periurban zone of Ngaoundere town. The results showed that t...

Problem: Planners, politicians, organizations, and citizens in many cities recognize community gardens as a vital part of urban food production. To fulfill community or organizational goals, it is helpful to systematically identify and assess urban vacant land that could be used as potential garden sites. Purpose: The technical purpose of this project was to demonstrate how stakeholder input co...

After a long period of absence, hospital and care-facility gardens are making a comeback. But these new gardens are not just ornamental. They aim to improve wellbeing. Some are even designed to change the outcome of disease—including neurological disease. Adrian Burton investigates.

Leaf-cutting ants are well known for their highly complex social organization, which provides them with a strong defense against parasites invading their colonies. Besides this attribute, these insects have morphological, physiological and structural characteristics further reinforcing the defense of their colonies. With the discovery of symbiotic bacteria present on the integument of leaf-cutt...

then the most natural interpretation is that the Fuji Gardens is a restaurant at which the speaker would like to eat with the hearer. The text is heard as exhibiting a problem-and-solution structure. Consequently, we can say that there is a proposition which says that there is a "solutionhood" relation between the two sentences. In this case, going to the Fuji Gardens (partially) solves the hun...

Maintaining food production while sustaining productive ecosystems is among the central challenges of our time, yet, it has been for millennia. Ancient clam gardens, intertidal rock-walled terraces constructed by humans during the late Holocene, are thought to have improved the growing conditions for clams. We tested this hypothesis by comparing the beach slope, intertidal height, and biomass a...

Butterfly gardens are green spaces designed as places where butterflies can feed, mate, and rest. Here, we present some perspectives on the possible use of botanical in natural areas butterfly to promote insect conservation through science dissemination citizen activities. We explored this possibility with a project developed Botanical Garden Gran Sasso Monti della Laga National Park (Italy). f...