1. The harvest of wild non-timber forest products (NTFP) represents an important source of income to millions of people world-wide. Despite growing concern over the conservation of these species, as well as their potential to foster forest conservation, information on the ecological implications of harvest is available only in disparate case studies. 2. Seventy studies that quantify the ecologi...

Searching The databases searched included CINAHL, MEDLINE, PREMEDLINE, the Cochrane Library, Current

Searching The databases searched included CINAHL, MEDLINE, PREMEDLINE, the Cochrane Library, Current

Searching The databases searched included CINAHL, MEDLINE, PREMEDLINE, the Cochrane Library, Current

by Ting Jiang, M.S. Washington State University December 2008 Chair: Mark L. Nelson Fatty acids in meat have obtained a lot of attention from both scientists and consumers because fatty acids are demonstrated to be closely related with human health and meat is an important food source, especially, for developed countries. Beef has been the most consumed red meat in the US and the argument exist...

poor packaging and improper management causes fruits get bruised and squeezed, allowingfor different types of rots to develop when the necessary favorable growth conditions available.tomato fruit is beset with problems of both field and storage rot. throughout the presentstudy, two biocontrol bacteria pseudomonas fluorescens utpf68, and bacillus subtilis utb96the large scale production of which...

Context. Hunting-related (hereafter harvest) mortality is assumed to be compensatory in many exploited species. However,whenharvestmortality is additive, hunting can lead topopulationdeclines, especially onpublic landwherehunting pressure can be intense. Recent studies indicate that excessive hunting may have contributed to the decline of a northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) population in ...

/ Spatially explicit models that combine remote sensing with geographic information systems (GIS) offer great promise to land managers because they consider the arrangement of landscape elements in time and space. Their visual and geographic nature facilitate the comparison of alternative landscape designs. Among various activities associated with forest management, none cause greater concern t...