Intensified inter-annual fluctuations in precipitation could profoundly impact terrestrial ecosystems. However, how changes previous-year influence current ecosystem functioning (e.g. resource use efficiency) semi-arid regions remains unclear. In this study, water efficiency (WUE) and light (LUE) were investigated a multi-year gradient experiment with seven treatment levels: 20%, 40% 60% decrea...

Working within the framework of socio-pragmatic turn in anglicism research, this paper adds a developmental sociolinguistic perspective investigating preadolescents’ use English lexical resources Belgian Dutch. The so far largely undocumented role linguistic transition from childhood to adolescence is analyzed through fieldwork corpus 15,465 utterances, collected during interviews with 26 (12 b...

Plant growth regulators (PGRs) are a common and widely used practice in cotton production for controlling plant growth, increasing yield, and improving management efficiency. Most of the PGRs used have an effect on plant growth, both vegetative and reproductive, and dry matter partitioning. However, there have been no reports of effects of PGRs on radiation use efficiency (RUE). It is logical t...

The stimulating effect of diffuse light on radiation use efficiency (RUE) of crops is often explained by the more homogeneous spatial light distribution, while rarely considering differences in temporal light distribution at leaf level. This study investigated whether diffuse light effects on crop RUE can be explained by dynamic responses of leaf photosynthesis to temporal changes of photosynth...