Urban agriculture increased in Seville (South Spain) the last 20 years and play different roles urban context. Edible species can be contaminated by soil airborne contamination leading to health risks. Samples of crop fruit their soils were collected rural gardens, including gardens from a mining area investigate potential food soils. Results show that most contaminated. In city, crops generall...

Urban agriculture/community gardening in the Bronx has multiple roles, including health-promoting, economic, environmental, and cultural. These roles are particularly important in light of urban sustainability issues and environmental justice concerns, such as differential access to open space, recreation, and fresh produce in poorer communities and communities of color, as well as differential...

BACKGROUND Leaf-cutter ants use fresh plant material to grow a mutualistic fungus that serves as the ants' primary food source. Within fungus gardens, various plant compounds are metabolized and transformed into nutrients suitable for ant consumption. This symbiotic association produces a large amount of refuse consisting primarily of partly degraded plant material. A leaf-cutter ant colony is ...

Increasing evidence highlights the role that botanic gardens might have in plant invasions across the globe. Botanic gardens, often in global biodiversity hotspots, have been implicated in the early cultivation and/or introduction of most environmental weeds listed by IUCN as among the worst invasive species worldwide. Furthermore, most of the popular ornamental species in living collections ar...

Gardens integrates a programming language and system to support parallel computation over a network of workstations. Our goal is to develop extensions to Gardens allowing it to efficiently support clusters of SMP machines under a uniform programming model. Such support requires the implementation of high-performance shared memory message passing primitives as well as changes to the existing mod...

PREMISE OF STUDY The factors driving variation in species interactions are often unknown, and few studies have made a link between changes in interactions and the strength of selection. METHODS We report on spatial variation in functional responses by a seed predator (SP) and its parasitic wasps associated with the herb Ruellia nudiflora. We assessed the influence of plant density on consumer...

School gardens are, increasingly, an integral part of projects aiming to promote nutritional education and environmental sustainability in many countries throughout the world. In the late 1950s, FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) and UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) had already developed projects to improve the dietary intake and behavior through school and community gardens. Howeve...

Pests and diseases that attack Crystal Guava are the main obstacles in increasing agricultural productivity, as well disrupting plant physiology growth. The purpose of this study was to identify pests crystal guava (Psidium guajava L). conducted for 3 months, (June-August) 2022 three gardens Gemawang Village, Dukuh, Ngargoyoso District, Karangayar. Data were obtained from observations samples c...

Eighteenth-century gardens have traditionally been viewed as spaces designed for leisure, and as representations of political status, power and taste. In contrast, this paper will explore the concept that gardens in this period could be seen as dynamic spaces where scientific experiment and medical practice could occur. Two examples have been explored in the pilot study which has led to this pa...