—Worldwide, rice (Oryza sativa) agriculture typically involves seasonal flooding and soil tillage, which provides a variety of microhabitats and potential food for birds. Water management in rice fields creates conditions ranging from saturated mud flats to shallow (<30 cm) water, thereby attracting different guilds of birds. Grain not collected during harvest (i.e. waste rice) is typically the...

Pollination is a pivotal, keystone process in almost all terrestrial ecosystem food webs: it supports global and sustainable productivity in agriculture and forestry, and maintains the biodiversity of plant and animal life. Bees are the most important pollinators, but bee declines in abundance and species richness have been documented on 4 continents. This decline in pollinator abundance is acc...

In recent years, the high rate of conversion of wetlands for agriculture has raised environmental concerns in Uganda. A study was therefore conducted to identify issues that need to be addressed if communities are to continue deriving livelihoods from wetland agriculture, without causing stress to the wetlands of Lake Victoria basin. This was done by conducting household surveys and focus group...

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EFFECTS OF CARBOHYDRATE SOURCE ON THE IN VITRO ASYMBIOTIC SEED GERMINATION OF THE TERRESTRIAL ORCHID HABENARIA MACROCERATITIS Scott L. Stewart a b & Michael E. Kane a a Plant Restoration, Conservation, and Propagation Biotechnology Program, Environmental Horticulture Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA b Horticulture and Agriculture Programs, Kankakee Community College,...

1 Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa, 2 South African Environmental Observation Network, Elwandle Coastal Node, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 3 Biological Sciences Department and Marine Research Institute, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa, 4 Seaweed Unit, Fisheries Branch, Department of Agriculture, Fores...

2. At its Fourteenth Session (2013), the Commission endorsed the Genebank Standards for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, contained in this document. The Genebank Standards were originally endorsed by the Commission in 1993. In 2009, the Commission requested FAO to revise the Genebank Standards in cooperation with the relevant international organizations to ensure up-to-date con...

Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, 90187 Umeå, Sweden Woods and Wayside International, Princeton, NJ, USA Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia d Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, Kibale, Uganda e Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), Yaounde, Cameroon f Technical Training and Research Centre for Development...

For close to 70 years, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has provided seasonal water supply outlooks for use by Western US water managers. These outlooks are a critical component in effective water management and are utilized by a broad spectrum of users for a variety of purposes, ranging from irrigated agriculture, flood control, municipal water supply, endangered species prote...