How different are the communities of invertebrates in tropical soils?

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What are the potential risks involved with the release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the soil?

What are the effects of transgenic DNA in the soil food web? What consequences, if any will these have on soil health?

01 February 2019 1,200 3 View

What are the latest technologies to detect with accuracy when cows are approaching ovulation, in order to maximize fertility and conception rates?

Estrus detection is very important to enhance fertility in livestock. I am interested in learning new technologies/approaches that maximize the conception and fertility of bovine species.

31 December 2018 8,534 15 View

How effective is meliponiculture (raising of stingless bees) among rural communities of central and south America?

Meliponiculture is the cultivation/raising of stingless bees species. These are native to central and south America and in many indigenous communities they have been kept/managed for millennia. I...

07 August 2018 4,900 4 View

What ethic principles/values can be employed to achieve a sustainable development?

Too often the discussion around the concept of sustainability is linked to the environment, the economy and the social issues however achieving a sustainable development must be supported by...

03 April 2018 7,928 7 View

What is the impact of urban agriculture on the global scale?

Food production out-puts from cities can be significant and since urbanization is on the rise worldwide I would like to learn more specifically what is/are the impact/s of growing food in cities.

03 April 2018 3,590 4 View

What is the efficacy of liquid biofertilizers (e.g.: compost tea) in the production of fruits and vegetables?

What fruit and vegetables plant species respond best to the application of biofertilizers like compost tea?

02 March 2018 6,633 25 View

What can be suggested to design farms so that mutualism between animals and their plant partners may increase efficacy to foster sustainability?

What can be suggested to design farms so that mutualism between animals and their plant partners may increase efficacy to enhance the sustainability of food production systems?

02 March 2018 8,974 3 View

Is there a cheap method to assess the presence of saprophytic fungi in soils?

How can soil fungi and ectomycorrhyzae be detected in the soil? Is there a simple method that can be used to demonstrate their presence when you are in the field with farmers?

02 March 2018 8,776 6 View

How is plant nutrition being affected since the widespread use of synthetic fertilizers?

How is plant nutrition being affected since the widespread use of highly soluble synthetic fertilizers to more complex, organic soil amendments, that are typically applied on organic farms?

02 March 2018 754 14 View

What evidence, if any suggests that slash-and-burn cultivation is a sustainable practice?

Is fire use a viable tool to manage agricultural land? What knowledge and information is needed to make this approach to land management most sustainable?

02 March 2018 6,593 4 View

Feedback defines the constitution of an organism?

“Here is a thought experiment. Let's place Rodolpho Llinas's jarred-brain on top of a body (Fig. 1). I bet Llinas would argue that his jarred-brain retains its own consciousness, and the android...

11 August 2024 2,483 1 View

Self-Organizing Superorganisms—as envisaged by Nenad Sestan (2018)?

The rate of glucose consumption by the neocortex is reduced by over 80% during anesthesia (Sibson et al. 1998), which disables the synapses (Richards 2002) that are inundated by glial tissue (Engl...

08 August 2024 3,118 0 View

An animal in not a rock (e.g., Koch 2013), it has an internal constitution that can be modified?

Vertebrates and invertebrates (e.g., arthropods: insects, crustaceans, etc.) have two different neuro-muscular systems given their differential construction: the former have an endoskeleton and...

07 August 2024 648 0 View

Are there any instruments for studying time similar to the way it is in space?

There are a huge number of methods for studying objects in space, according to the senses (and not only). Mechanical, thermal, optical, acoustic, electrical, magnetic, based on particle beams,...

06 August 2024 7,102 0 View

Measuring the Intelligence of a Species?

Larger brains, which typically contain more neurons, store and transfer more information (Tehovnik and Chen 2015), but the precise relationship between number of neurons and information has yet to...

05 August 2024 1,238 2 View

How can i do multivariate Time Series forecast using MLP, ANFIS and LSTM?

I need the python code to forecast what crop production will be in the next decade considering climate and crop production variables as seen in the attached.csv file.

05 August 2024 2,977 3 View

The Curse of Evolution and Complexity?

Brain and body mass together are positively correlated with lifespan (Hofman 1993). The duration of neural development is one of the best predictors of brain size, and conception is the best...

05 August 2024 6,247 3 View

Need help with my research project on open source SIEM and machine learning?

Hello everyone, I am currently working on a research project that aims to integrate machine learning techniques into an open source SIEM tool to automate the creation of security use cases from...

04 August 2024 3,196 2 View

Swimming/space travel depends on the proprioceptive muscle spindles?

When the entire neocortex is ablated in rodents, although they are still able to swim, all the limbs move continuously and asynchronously (Vanderwolf 2006; Vanderwolf et al. 1978). Normal animals...

03 August 2024 835 3 View

What are the limitations and challenges of using machine learning for predicting concrete compressive strength in practical applications?

Machine learning (ML) has shown great potential in predicting the compressive strength of concrete, an important property for structural engineering. However, its practical application comes with...

03 August 2024 2,546 2 View