While soil microbial ecology, soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil physical quality are widely understood to be interrelated — the underlying drivers of emergent properties, from land management to biochemistry, are hotly debated. Biological binding agents, microbial exud...

SUMMARY After analysing a field experiment we might want to investigate whether a different system of blocking would have been better than the one actually used. Several writers have investigated ignoring the incomplete blocks of a lattice design. In this paper we discu...

<jats:p> There is a natural tendency for untrained scouting bees to associate certain perfumes with food (e. g. those of the flowers of <jats:italic>Crataegus oxyacantha</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Trifolium repens</jats:italic> ) whereas the perfume of some other fl...

Abstract The sex pheromone of Sitodiplosis mosellana , (2 S ,7 S )-dibutyroxynonane, has been synthesised using a mixed di- t -butylsilaketal prepared from ( S )-5-hexen-2-ol and prochiral 1,4-pentadiene-3-ol. Ring-closing metathesis occurs diastereoselectively and afte...

SUMMARY Potato tubers artificially inoculated with Fusarium solani var. coeruleum or F. sulphureum 3 months after harvest were uniformly wounded and held at 5, 10 or 15°C for up to 21 days before immersion in fungicide suspensions. Holding tubers for 14 days at 15°C (cu...

Summary The tendency for bees to attach comb to sloping side-bars of frames diminished with increase in their angle of slope. Bees were less inclined to attach comb to the sides of a hive provided with top-bars, if the sides were sloping, irrespective of the angle of sl...

Sci Total Environ 098OZ Times Cited:0 Cited References Count:68; Lindane [gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane (gamma-HCH)] is an organochlorine pesticide with toxic effects on humans. It is bioaccumulative and can remain in soils for long periods, and although its use for crop ...

1. Phosphorus (P) transfer from agricultural land to freshwater systems has been studied across many scales and environmental compartments that range from understanding biogeochemical processes in soils and fields, to assessment of localised in-stream biotic and ecologi...