Hogs and hazelnuts: adaptively managing pest spillover in the agricultural-wildland matrix

Pest and disease analysis of hazelnuts

Appropriate Combinations of Technology for Solving Landscape Management Problems— Session H: Rural and Agricultural Development Managing for Naturalness in Wildland and Agricultural Landscapes1

2/ Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Abstract: Visual management systems operate from the premise that people have expectations for landscape views, and that people's positive expectations should be fulfilled. Both the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management visual management systems assume that people expect wildlands to l...

the relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...

Arthropod Diversity and Pest Suppression in Agricultural Landscapes

Research at the Kellogg Biological Station Long-Term Ecological Research site (KBS LTER) is focused on understanding the ecological interactions underlying the productivity of row-crop ecosystems. Within these systems, insect pests and weeds represent two major groups of organisms that farmers must consistently and effectively manage. Since its inception in 1989, entomologists associated with K...

Carnivore Use of Avocado Orchards across an Agricultural-Wildland Gradient

Wide-ranging species cannot persist in reserves alone. Consequently, there is growing interest in the conservation value of agricultural lands that separate or buffer natural areas. The value of agricultural lands for wildlife habitat and connectivity varies as a function of the crop type and landscape context, and quantifying these differences will improve our ability to manage these lands mor...