Responses of Mmupudu (Mimusops zeyheri) indigenous fruit tree to three soil types

Evaluation of three blackberry fruit types in Bio-degradable and nonbio-degradable packaging types

Coordinated responses of soil communities to elevation in three subarctic vegetation types

G. F. Veen (http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7736-9998) ([email protected]), J. R. De Long (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7951-4818), P. Kardol and D. A. Wardle, Dept of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden. JRDL also at: School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Univ. of Manchester, Manchester, England. DAW also at: Asian School of the Environment,...

Fruit tree model for uptake of organic compounds from soil.

Apples and other fruits are frequently cultivated in gardens and are part of our daily diet. Uptake of pollutants into apples may therefore contribute to the human daily intake of toxic substances. In current risk assessment of polluted soils, regressions or models are in use, which were not intended to be used for tree fruits. A simple model for uptake of neutral organic contaminants into frui...

Assessing Soil Health for Tree Fruit and Vine Crops

What is soil health? The objective of this presentation is to present information on the types of measurements of soil biological properties that might be useful as bio-indicators of soil health. First, however, it is necessary to discuss what soil health means. Scientists, farmers and land managers have long known that there is more to the productive capacity of soil than what can be predicted...

Impacts of Mastication: Soil Seed Bank Responses to a Forest Thinning Treatment in Three Colorado (USA) Conifer Forest Types

Mastication is a forest fuel thinning treatment that involves chipping or shredding small trees and shrubs and depositing the material across the forest floor. By decreasing forest density mastication has been shown to lessen crown fire hazard, yet other impacts have only recently started to be studied. Our study evaluates how mastication treatments alter the density and composition of soil see...