This study investigates whether the presence of green space can attenuate negative health impacts of stressful life events. Individual-level data on health and socio-demographic characteristics were drawn from a representative two-stage sample of 4529 Dutch respondents to the second Dutch National Survey of General Practice (DNSGP-2), conducted in 2000-2002. Health measures included: (1) the nu...

Geopersia is published biannually by the College of Science, University of Tehran, Iran. The College of Science published Journal of Science, which covered all fields of basic science, from 1968 to 2010. It was then decided that the College’s journals should be more specialized, and hence publication of Geopersia was launched. Articles printed in Geopersia will be available online too. Aims an...

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Plant growth and biomass assessments are required in production and research. Such assessments are followed by major decisions (e.g., harvest timing) that channel resources and influence outcomes. In research, resources required to assess crop status affect other aspects of experimentation and, therefore, discovery. Destructive harvests are important because they influence treatment selection, ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate plant cover and dry mass produced by green manures their influence on the chemical attributes soil for ecological restoration an area around bauxite mine environment in Southeast Brazil. Soil preparation, fertilization sowing three species were carried out: Cajanus cajan, Crotalaria juncea Stylosanthes guianensis. In general, C. cajan showed best perf...

Cover crops can produce ecosystem services during the fallow period, as reducing nitrate leaching and producing green manure. Crop growth rate (CGR) and crop nitrogen acquisition rate (CNR) can be used as two indicators of the ability of cover crops to produce these services in agrosystems. We used leaf functional traits to characterise the growth strategies of 36 cover crops as an approach to ...

COVER Stylized comparison of the inner solar system (top) and Kepler-62 (bottom), a fi ve-planet system about 1200 light-years away. Like our solar system, Kepler-62 hosts two planets in its habitable zone (depicted in green), the region around a star where a planet could conceivably maintain liquid water on its surface. The special section beginning on page 565 summarizes what we currently kno...