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Is supplying nutrients to crop plants through mineral fertilizers deleterious to soil health?

It is increasingly being said that continuous use of mineral fertilizers to supply nutrients to crops leads to soil health deterioration. Do we have scientific evidence based on research...

11 February 2017 3,913 40 View

Interested by Design and Routes for Sustainable Polyurethanes?

ACS Symposium dedicated to the Design and Routes for Sustainable Polyurethanes 21st Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference - June 13-15, 2017 - Reston, USA

09 February 2017 6,549 2 View

Is there a method to calculate the spill over effect of a terrestrial protected area on wildlife?

This would be to quantify the value of some Canadian national parks for the communities living around them. A case study would be fine.

08 February 2017 1,619 8 View

Could burned land be recovered?

The bioremediation is used for recovery contaminated lands, but is possible recover a land burned?Bacterias that use carbonized matter? Maybe is a crazy idea...

07 February 2017 9,652 5 View

In soil contaminant transport, what are other modes of transport apart from advection, sorption and degradation?

Are advection, sorption and degradation the only ways by which soil contaminants are transported in the soil?

04 February 2017 1,543 4 View

I’m looking for the best model for the extimation of dispersions of pollutants from open burning of waste. Could anyone suggest me something?

Open nurning of waste Dispersions models

01 February 2017 1,712 4 View

What is the alternative soil moisture product for long-term soil moisture analysis?

To analyze long-term soil moisture(SM) dynamics from 2002-2015, remote sensed SM products can be used. AMSR SM product provided data-set from 2002-2010, but which other SM products can be...

31 January 2017 3,051 4 View

How to assessment the optimal benefits if extracting forest and coal on the over lapping land use? Any body help me to find the literatures?

What resource that be extracted first time: forest or coal? When the second resource be extracted, if the over lapping land use both forest and coal lay on about 1Mha?

30 January 2017 572 3 View

Can anyone provide me with some papers regarding the nutrient deficiency within the soil in Iran ?

I am doing a presentation regarding the problems with the soil in Iran and its impacts on the agricultural production also with considering the water problems and its roles in this issue

30 January 2017 731 4 View

Any literature available on the impact of climate and /microclimatic variables/soil parameters on beneficial soil microflora

Any literature available on the impact of climate and /microclimatic variables/soil parameters on beneficial microflora

29 January 2017 1,696 4 View

How NTFPs importance for ecosystem services? And, how to measure it in economic value term?

Many scholars agree that NTFPs is a part and a final product from ecosystem services, but there is a question whether NTFPs contribute back to generate or to maintain ecosystem services or not?

27 January 2017 4,378 10 View

How to valuate the soil retention ?

Dear all, I want to valuate the soil/mineral retention. As I have used RUSLE model in the GIS environment to find out soil erosion with C (cover ) factor and without C factor. I have the maximum...

22 January 2017 1,017 5 View

Does anyone know what method I can use to quantify carbon from livestock farming, crop production and fuel wood harvesting?

I need to quantify annual net household carbon removal from the local ecosystem in relation to NPP using detailed data on household fuelwood use harvesting, crop production, and livestock farming.

20 January 2017 3,485 3 View

How to remove background from a image?

I am working on a prototype that involves background reduction and removal. I want to crop out my ROI (Region of Interest).

20 January 2017 3,908 3 View

Organic waste to produce compost, what are the alternatives for composting?

The aim is to improve livelihoods, and environmental conditions through integrated benefit from the using of the organic waste to produce compost.

19 January 2017 4,185 8 View

Anyone has experience with weed control in industrial areas to share?

I was wondering if anyone has experience with weed control in industrial areas to share? For example, control of weeds that interfere around roads and pipeline in gas stations or refinery...

18 January 2017 3,349 3 View

Is there any restriction to the testing of commercial formulations of pesticides in the context of academic research (agronomy - ecotoxicology) ?

I am planning on investigating the impact of the use of pesticide treatments on the trophic web ‘cultivated plant/phytophagous insect/parasitoid’, and I reckon it would be much more realistic to...

17 January 2017 1,768 7 View

How to dispose off the plants used in phytoremediation processes?

copper contaminated soil

12 January 2017 7,707 12 View

Is there any software that can convert the dendrogram obtained from NTSys software into colored grouped dendrogram?

I m using NTSys software for cluster analysis for dominant markers. Kindly let me know if there is any software that i can use to convert the dendrogram tree into colored groups. Thank you.

11 January 2017 9,712 1 View

Is there any diferrence of herbivore induced plant volatile that emitted by organic plant and conventional plant?

is there any difference such as variability of volatile compound or total volatile compound that emitted by organic plant and conventional plant?particularly in case of Diadegma semiclausum and...

18 December 2016 3,009 3 View

Can anyone please provide the research reports on the bacterial treatment of tannery wastewater?

Tannery wastewater is a major source of environmental pollution

12 December 2016 3,071 12 View

ANOSIM to compare the capture efficiency of a van Veen grab and airlift?

I sampled in three different types of sediments (zone) and within each zone I sampled 8 sites randomly using both airlift and grab. At each site I took 4 grabs and 4 airlift samples. Is this a...

08 December 2016 1,128 3 View

What could be the cause of a severe drop in DO during diel oxygen measurements?

I am conducting a mesocosm experiment in 68 L rubbermaid totes examining the differences between gamma irradiated tailings waste (treatment) and non-irradiated tailings waste (control), we believe...

06 December 2016 8,524 2 View

What qualifies an organism to be a standard toxicity test species?

I am working on developing a sediment toxicity test for the South African coastal waters using an amphipod species. We have addressed salinity issues for the species and we have partly addressed...

06 December 2016 8,941 18 View

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