Sri Lankan Journal of Agriculture and Ecosystems (SLJAE) is published by the Faculty Agriculture, Rajarata University Lanka. It publishes peer-reviewed original research articles from all fields agriculture including crop science, forestry, agricultural biology, plant protection, genetics breeding, food nutrition, animal soil water resource management, machinery, economics extension system stud...

Sri Lankan Journal of Agriculture and Ecosystems (SLJAE) is published by the Faculty Agriculture, Rajarata University Lanka. It publishes peer-reviewed original research articles from all fields agriculture including crop science, forestry, agricultural biology, plant protection, genetics breeding, food nutrition, animal soil water resource management, machinery, economics extension system stud...

Sri Lankan Journal of Agriculture and Ecosystems (SLJAE) is published by the Faculty Agriculture, Rajarata University Lanka. It publishes peer-reviewed original research articles from all fields agriculture including crop science, forestry, agricultural biology, plant protection, genetics breeding, food nutrition, animal soil water resource management, machinery, economics extension system stud...

Sri Lankan Journal of Agriculture and Ecosystems (SLJAE) is published by the Faculty Agriculture, Rajarata University Lanka. It publishes peer-reviewed original research articles from all fields agriculture including crop science, forestry, agricultural biology, plant protection, genetics breeding, food nutrition, animal soil water resource management, machinery, economics extension system stud...

1 Soil Sciences Department, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Frick, Switzerland, 2 Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany, 3 Animal Ecology, J.F. Blumenbach Institute for Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, 4 Product Development and Machine Elements, Faculty of Mechanical and Process Engineering, Darmstadt University ...

1 Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States, 2 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, 3 Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States, 4 Laboratory of Evolutionary Entomology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 5...

YLVA LEKBERG, ROGER T. KOIDE, JASON R. ROHR*, LAURA ALDRICHWOLFE† and JOSEPH B. MORTON‡ Department of Horticulture, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA, * Penn State Institutes of the Environment and Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA, † Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Corn...

The type species of the genus Zambedania Mahunka, 1972 (Z. africana Mahunka, 1972) is redescribed based on the holotype collected from soil in Zimbabwe. Two new species are described and illustrated herewith: Z. madagascariana from Madagascar and Z. argentiniana from Argentina. The generic diagnosis of Zambedania is amended, and the key to its species is supplied. Morphology, taxonomy and biolo...

Astrid Oberson, Else K. Bünemann, Dennis K. Friesen, I.M. Rao, Paul C. Smithson, Benjamin L. Turner, and Emmanuel Frossard, Institute of Plant Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia International Center for the Improvement of Maize and Wheat (CIMMYT) and International Q1 Fertili...

The effect of resource history on the functioning of soil microbial communities is maintained across time A. D. Keiser, M. S. Strickland, N. Fierer, and M. A. Bradford School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA Cooperative Institute for Research in Environ...