Five strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) cultivars were grown in Queensland, Australia to determine whether higher temperatures affect production. Transplants planted on 29 April and data collected growth, marketable yield, fruit weight the incidence of small less than 12 g until 28 October. Additional soluble solids content (SSC) titratable acidity (TA) from 16 September Minimum 2 °C 4 long...

Environmental damage caused by the intensification of agriculture may be compensated implementing conservation projects directed towards reducing threatening processes and conserving threatened native species. In Australia, feral cats (Felis catus) have been a ubiquitous process to Australian fauna since European colonisation. On Shamrock Station, in north-west Western Argyle Cattle Company has...

Analysis of model output from phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) reveals that, in the zonal mean, the near-term projections of summertime changes of precipitation in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) subtropics are very widely scattered among the models. As a consequence, over the next 50 years, the CMIP5 multimodel mean projects no statistically significant trends in the S...

Observations of the ozone profile by a groundbased microwave radiometer in Switzerland indicate a dominant 20-day oscillation in stratospheric ozone, possibly related to oscillations of the polar vortex edge during winter. For further understanding of the nature of the 20-day oscillation, the ozone data set of ERA Interim meteorological reanalysis is analyzed at the latitude belt of 47.5 N and ...

Thirty-two taxa of silica-scaled Chrysophyceae and Synurophyceae are reported from waterbodies in the Ocala National Forest, Florida, U.S.A. Many of the lakes in the Ocala area are poorly buffered and low in both pH and specific conductivity. The organisms observed were clearly differentially distributed over a pH gradient, with the majority of species being typical of acidic localities. Sixtee...

A set of atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) experiments under idealized conditions is performed to investigate atmospheric response to surface boundary forcing by tropical sea surface temperature (SST), extratropical land-sea contrast, and large-scale orography. Stationary eddies forced by the extratropical land-sea distribution are strongest in the high latitudes, where their amplitu...