This study investigated the relationship among plant diversity, production, stability, and susceptibility to invasion in restored northern tall grass prairies (United States). The experiment consisted of 50 species mixtures fertilized with N or P, at high or low levels. Results from the past 5 years were as follows: (1) aboveground biomass increased and year-to-year variability declined with in...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of cover crop mixture diversity on cover crop function. Specifically, this study evaluated the effect of cover crop species and functional richness on aboveground biomass productivity, weed suppression, soil nutrient retention, soil microbial community characteristics, and performance stability. Twenty to forty cover crop treatments were re...

A quantum liquid in a heterogeneous mixture of $^{41}$K and $^{87}$Rb atoms is studied using the diffusion Monte Carlo method Density Functional Theory. The perturbative Lee-Huang-Yang term for verified it proved to be valid only near gas-liquid transition. Based on equations state bulk mixture, calculated with Carlo, extensions corrected mean-field energy functionals (MF+LHY) are presented. Us...

The balanced-diet hypothesis states that a diverse prey community is beneficial to consumers due to resource complementarity among the prey species. Nonselective consumer species cannot differentiate between prey items and are therefore not able to actively regulate their diet intake. We thus wanted to test whether the balanced-diet hypothesis is applicable to nonselective consumers. We conduct...

In a collisionless shock the directed flow energy is converted mainly in thermal of plasma species. At termination (TS) substantial portion goes into heating pickup ions (PUIs), while solar wind protons (SW) weaker than it would be without PUI. Heating both species nonadiabatic. Downstream pressure mixture determined by conservation laws for whole mixture. SW sensitive to details front, PUI not...

in order to study the effects of co2 enrichment on growth and competitiveness of soybean (glycine max) and millet (panicum miliaceum) against redroot pigweed (amaranthus retroflexus) and lambsquarter (chenopodium albam) an experiment was conducted using two co2 concentrations (350 and 700 ppm). for evaluating effects of co2 variation on inter-and intra-specific competition plants were grown in ...

Defined mixtures of two grass (orchardgrass, perennial ryegrass) and two legume (alfalfa, red clover) hays, harvested in two cuttings in 2 yr, were fed in digestibility, intake and mineral balance trials to wether lambs. Each mixture was fed in ad libitum amounts to six crossbred wether lambs weighing 35 to 45 kg. The effect of increasing proportion of legume in mixtures on dry matter digestibi...

The response of the two most abundant cockchafer species in central Europe, Melolontha hippocastani and M. melolontha, towards phenol, mixtures of phenol with the leaf alcohol (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol and the known cockchafer pheromones, 1,4-benzoquinone (M. hippocastani) and toluquinone (M. melolontha), was investigated in the field. During the swarming period at dusk, phenol attracted males of both s...

Short-chain triacylglycerol, tributyrin (glyceryl-sn-1,2,3-tri-butyric acids), was interesterified with palm oil to produce mixtures of structured triacylglycerol (SL-TAG) species as a low-calorie lipid. Lipozyme RM IM from Rhizomucor miehei, known as a 1,3regioselective immobilized lipase, was used as a catalyst. During 24 h reaction, the reaction mixture was analyzed with HypersilBDSCPS high ...

The topical toxicities of five commercial grade pesticides commonly sprayed in apple orchards were estimated on adult worker honey bees, Apis mellifera (L.) (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and Japanese orchard bees, Osmia cornifrons (Radoszkowski) (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). The pesticides were acetamiprid (Assail 30SG), λ-cyhalothrin (Warrior II), dimethoate (Dimethoate 4EC), phosmet (Imidan 70W), and ...