Context Germination is a vulnerable life stage for plants, therefore understanding the dynamics of seed ecology essential to guiding management recommendations highly invasive weeds. Aim We addressed knowledge gap how seeds contribute invasion process European blackberry (Rubus anglocandicans), threatening weed across riparian ecosystems south-western Australia. Methods performed mechanical, ch...

Applied ecology is the science of managing ecosystems for defined outcomes, such as conservation, sustainable harvest, and animal pest and weed control. Robust knowledge in science is often expressed as “principles”. Principles in applied ecology have utility by assisting scientists andmanagers to evaluate currentmanagement and to plan future activities. Principles also have a unifying role by ...

This research was about the application of decision support system in agriculture. The subject of study was the corn cultivated in Jilin province, northeast of China. The research synthesized expertise and experience on corn cultivation, plant protection, soil and fertilizer, and synthesized agriculture ecology from experts, integrating computer technology, principle of decision support system ...

Overview: Following its introduction to North America, diffuse knapweed came to occupy millions of hectares of rangeland. This is the story of biological control efforts done over 25 years before an effective agent was introduced. The moral is that for optimal success of biological control, thorough work should be done to understand the ecology of the target weed and its natural enemies. Effect...

In ecology and epidemiology, spatio-temporal distributions of events can be described by Cox processes. Situations for which there exists a hidden process which contributes to random effects on the intensity of the observed Cox process are considered. The observed process is a generalized shot noise Cox process and the hidden process is a Poisson process associated with a Dirichlet process. The...

John C. Holz is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in aquatic ecology. He has established an active lake water quality extension program that provides information on common Midwest management issues (e.g., algal control, aquatic weed management, nutrient management) to lake owners, users, and managers. His research interest...

Claim of sustainability are virtually impossible to prove but enough is known about tropical forest ecology and silviculture to protect ecosystem functions and maintain biodiversity while still deriving financial profirs from logging . Rapid improvements in long-term forest production will derive from better planning of harvesting operations and stand improvement treatments. Lack of good manage...