CONTINUING STUDY of botanical collections made in recent years under the auspices of the Fiji Department of Agriculture has indicated the occurrence of various hitherto undescribed species of flowering plants in Fiji. In this paper seven species are described as new, in the genera Dysoxylum (Meliaceae), Melochia and Sterculia (Sterculiaceae), Astronidium (Melastomataceae), and Calycosia, Mastix...

Effective Management Strategies for Sage-Grouse and Sagebrush: A Question of Triage? Michael J. Wisdom U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station La Grande, Oregon Mary M. Rowland U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station La Grande, Oregon Robin J. Tausch U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mounta...

a Produce Quality and Safety Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA b Crop Quality & Fruit Insect Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Weslaco, TX 78596, USA c Biometrical Consulting Service, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, ...

1 Department of Agrotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia, 2 Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 3 Research Center for Biotechnology, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 4 Agriculture Victoria, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, B...

1 Department of Zoology,University of Sargodha,Sargodha, Pakistan 2 Department of Biosciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Park Road, Chakh Shazad, Islamabad, Pakistan 3 Department of Botany,PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan 4 Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan 5 Department of Zoology, PMASAri...

1 Department of Biochemistry, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan. 2 Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan. 3 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan. 4 Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Islamabad, Pakistan. 5 Pakistan Science Foundation, Isla...

Patrick C. Tobin*, Barry B. Bai, Donald A. Eggen and Donna S. Leonard Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Northern Research Station, Morgantown, West Virginia 26505, USA; Oregon Department of Agriculture, Plant Division, Salem, Oregon 97301, USA; Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Forestry, Division of Forest Pest Management, Middletown...

Introduction Based on the interest among organic farmers in Iowa for an unbiased analysis of the many natural soil amendment/fertilizer and compost products on the market for certified organic vegetable and herb crop production, several experiments have been conducted (Delate 1999). According to the USDA Economic Research Service, statistics on organic production in the U.S. lag far behind thos...

The transition of farming systems to higher levels of productivity without overusing natural resources is of rising interest especially in African countries, where population growth has often been larger than past productivity increases. This paper aims to contribute to the debate on whether environmentally friendly agricultural practices are compatible with economic interests. In the context o...

Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, Clayton, Vic., Australia, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service, Rio Pedras, PR, Department of Biology, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK,...