—Morphological adaptations may indicate increased specialization (narrowing of ecological niche) or expansion of the suite of lifestyles available to an organism (increasing niche breadth). Hypsodonty in mammals generally has been interpreted as a specialization into a grazing niche from a browsing niche. Here I examine the feeding strategy of the extinct hypsodont camel Hemiauchenia through an...

Flow resistance due to vegetation may greatly affect the conveyance of a channel, and thus evaluating the resistance is a critical task in river engineering and restoration. Therefore, flow resistance of natural willows and sedges was studied in a laboratory flume. The aim was to investigate, how type, density and combination of vegetation, flow depth and velocity influence vegetal drag or fric...

The current study, named "Development of organic farming package for brinjal (Solanum melongena L.)," was carried out at the Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth's Research Farm in Rahuri, District Ahmednagar, Maharashtra (India), during kharif seasons 2017 and 2018. Due to weed free treatment followed by mechanical (hoeing) intercultivation pulling weeds 20 days intervals from 80 after transplantin...