a Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS), University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa b College of Forestry and Conservation, Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, United States c Department of Plant and Soil Sc...

E¡ect of environmenton theabundanceandactivityof the nematophagous fungusHirsutellaminnesotensis in soil Meichun Xiang, Ping’an Xiang, Xingzhong Liu & Limei Zhang Key Laboratory of Systematic Mycology and Lichenology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; College of Agriculture, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China; and Research Centre for Eco-environ...

2 System Design: Philosophy We summarize recent machine translation (MT) research at the Information Sciences Institute of USC, and we describe its application to the development of a Japanese-English newspaper MT system. Our work aims at scaling up grammar-based, knowledge-based MT techniques. This scale-up involves the use of statistical methods, both in acquiring e ective knowledge resources...

ION and VERIFICATION in ALPHARD: A Symbol Table Example Ralph L. London, USC Information Sciences Institute Mary Shaw, Carnegie-Mellon University Wm. A. Wulf, Carnegie-Mellon University

This editorial will introduce a set of seven articles appearing in this Special Issue on Pan American biofuel and bioenergy sustainability. We will discuss the importance of sustainability in biofuel and bioenergy development and rationale for a focus on the Pan American region. These articles are one outcome of a US National Science Foundation-funded project, and we will list the project goal,...

1 University Koblenz-Landau, Institute for Integrated Natural Sciences, Germany 2 Leibniz Universität Hannover, Forschungszentrum Küste, Germany 3 University Koblenz-Landau, Institute for Integrated Natural Sciences, Germany 4 University Stuttgart, Institute for Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems, Germany 5 University Koblenz-Landau, Institute for Environmental Sciences...

Soil characteristics and functions are critical determinants of rangeland systems and the ecosystem services that they provide. Rangeland soils are extremely diverse, but an emerging understanding is that paradigms developed in more mesic forest ecosystems may not be applicable. Vascular plants, biological soil crusts, and the soil microbial community are the three major functional groups of or...

a Institute for Sustainable Resources, Queensland University of Technology, G.P.O. Box 2434, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI 49060, USA Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, Michigan State University, East Lansing...

a Research Soil Geographer, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Jornada Experimental Range, MSC 3JER, NMSU, Box 30003, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8003, USA b College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Roosevelt Hall, 1 Kellogg Circle, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas 66801, USA c Geosciences Department, University of West Georgia, Callaway Building, 1601 Maple Street, Carrollton, GA 30118, USA d De...