What is your opinion on the field application of biological control agents?

Also, what do you think about indirect ecological effects of biological control agents (non-target effects)?

04 May 2014 8,249 17 View

Is there any stranded protocol to culture beauveria bassiana?

Sabouraud dextrose agar or potato dextrose agar: Which is better for isolating Beauveria bassiana?

02 March 2014 6,000 10 View

What is the best method to rear hymenopteran parasitoids in the laboratory?

I am studying hymenopteran parasitoids that attack cutworms in canola (rapeseed). I am rearing cutworms until endo- or ecto- parasitoid larvae emerge from cutworms. Can you give some tricks about...

05 June 2013 8,038 2 View

Do we need to write protocol for a second study of a systematic review that has been registered and published?

I have conducted and published a systematic review and meta-analysis research with the topic related to public health and health pomotion (protocol was registed in PROSPERO). Now we want to...

03 March 2021 8,920 3 View

Why are the velocities so high in my Boussinesq approximation Fluent simulation?

Hello, I have a mechanism where air rises due to convective flows. In this simulation, nothing is driving the air except this. I understand that the Boussinesq approximation only works for small...

02 March 2021 4,910 3 View

What are the countries most affected by extreme rainfall as a result of climate change?

Increased heat, drought and insect outbreaks, all associated to climate change, have increased wildfires. Decreasing water supplies, declined agricultural yields, health impacts in cities owing to...

01 March 2021 7,168 9 View

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Hi, I have several doubts about one paper (Systematic Literature Review) that was rejected. The main topic is Single-Board Computers in engineering education during the period 2010-2020. The...

01 March 2021 9,015 3 View

How to accurately quantify chitin?

Hi all, I have been working on the quantification of chitin in insect samples and feed for a while but I can notice that the quantification methods (e.g. exposure to HCl, NaOH, and weighing sample...

01 March 2021 1,843 2 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View

Which software is better to write systematic review paper?

We have seen some authors use some software to write review paper. As obvious, the study of all published papers concerning our studying field is not possible and these software can help us to...

27 February 2021 6,296 1 View

The Shannon's index is inversely proportional to Simpson's index (1-D)?

I'm having a problem with my bloxplot with Shannon's and Simpson's indexs. The value of Shannon for my Community 1 indicating higher diversity (in relation of the Community 2), but have lower...

26 February 2021 3,033 9 View

Centrality measures computation in Biblioshiny/ Vosviewer?

26 February 2021 7,279 2 View

Has anyone used the Illumina ITS1 primer sets?

Hi everyone, Illumina provides a list of primers to amplify with high taxonomic coverage the ITS1 region for further fungal sequencing, but I cannot find the exact amount necessary of each...

25 February 2021 6,969 3 View