Comparative Assessment on Selected Physicochemical Parameters and Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activities of Honey Samples from Selected Districts of the Amhara and Tigray Regions... by Mekuanint Lewoyehu, Meareg Amare

“…In Ethiopia, Amhara and Tigray are neighboring regions consisting of different agricultural activities and blossoms from different types of vegetations which may influence the natural composition and hence the properties of honey. …”
Get full text

Anthocyanin-Rich Blackcurrant Supplementation as a Nutraceutical Ergogenic Aid for Exercise Performance and Recovery: A Narrative Review by Mark ET Willems, Sam D Blacker, Stefano Montanari, Matthew D Cook

“…The anthocyanin is a polyphenol that can be abundantly present in dark-colored fruits, berries, and vegetables. Anthocyanins and anthocyanin-induced metabolites will provide antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. …”
Get full text

Virtual Reality Design and Realization of Interactive Garden Landscape by Xuanfeng Zhang, Song Yan, QuanQi

“…The experimental results show that the GPU-accelerated drawing method based on GLSL can significantly improve the drawing frame rate of 3D garden landscape vegetation scenes with a small amount of scene data and has a certain feasibility. …”
Get full text

EFFECT OF VINE LOAD AND SEAWEED EXTRACT ON THE GROWTH AND YIELD OF GRAPE VINES (VITIS VINIFERA L.), SHATTER AL-ANZ CULTIVAR by M. F. Al-Doori, S. A. Hussein

“…The experiment was conducted in the grape orchard of the Department of Horticulture and Landscape at the College of Agriculture/Tikrit University during the 2023 growing season, to study the effect of vine load at three levels (30,40 and 50) eyes vine-1 and spraying with seaweed extract at three levels (0,20 and 40) mL L-1 at a rate of three sprays during the study period, with an interval of 10 says between one spray and next, on some characteristics of vegetative growth and yield of grape vines cultivar Shatter Al-Anz,5 years old.Results obtained were summarized as follows: Level 50 eyes vine-1 led to a significant improvement in the studied traits (Leaves area, percentage of chlorophyll, number of clusters, total yield, Percentage of TSS and sugars and total acidity), reaching (9.29 m2, 35.32 SPAD unit, 26.61 cluster vine-1, 9.21 kg, 16.86%, 15.94% and 0.51%) respectively. …”
Get full text

Towards estimating the proportion of dead and missing vines at the field level by Baptiste OGER, Cécile Laurent, Philippe Vismara, Bruno Tisseyre

“…The first part of the study investigated whether vineyard properties (year of planting and variety) and available ancillary data (soil resistivity and fraction of vegetation cover [Fcover]) can provide a priori information on the proportion of dead and missing vines and guide the sampling strategy. …”
Get full text

The impact of environmental variables on reed stands of the intermittent Lake Cerknica, Slovenia: 40 years of change by Nik Ojdanič, Alenka Gaberščik, Igor Zelnik, Aleksandra Golob

“…At Lake Cerknica, long-term data on water levels and temperatures, combined with four decades of Landsat satellite imagery, allowed for a comprehensive analysis of reed stand dynamics of three different reed stands using the modified soil adjusted vegetation index (MSAVI2) and an index differentiating technique. …”
Get full text

Prevalence of Iron Deficiency Anemia among University Students in Hodeida Province, Yemen by Abdullah Ahmed Al-alimi, Salem Bashanfer, Mohammed Abdo Morish

“…Infrequent consumption of vegetables/fruits; meat, fish, chicken; tea drinking; low household income; smoking and khat (Catha edulis) chewing showed a significant role (p < 0.001) in provoking of IDA, whereas consumption of coffee and cola showed insignificant influence (p=0.585; p=0.513) on IDA. …”
Get full text

Dynamics and Driving Factors of Carbon Storage in the Yellow River Delta from 1980 to 2020 by SUN Hanqing, CUI Buli, JIANG Dejuan, LI Yuan, LUO Yongming

“…Additionally, the construction of large-scale tidal barriers in the YRD altered the distribution of carbon storage by affecting sea-land hydrological connectivity, vegetation, and soil properties. Notably, carbon storage tended to increase with greater distance from tidal barriers. …”
Get full text

Predicting of Temporal-Spatial Sand Dunes Transition Caused by Marine Storms (Case Study: The Coast of Makran, Iran) by Soleiman PirouzZadeh, Mahmood Khosravi, Samad Fotohi

“…This increase resulted from changed moorland 162 km²of land area (27%) and 12 kilometers of vegetation (2%) and 23 km² of fluvial (3.4%). These changes makes heavily exposed about 6 villages (Karti,Gnjk, Sohroki, Pyvshk, Vanak and Kalirak) to the movement of running sands.…”
Get full text

Seroprevalence and Potential Risk Factors of Toxocariasis among General Population in Southwest Iran: Implications on the One Health Approach by Masoud Foroutan, Aida Vafae Eslahi, Shahrzad Soltani, Naser Kamyari, Ehsan Moradi-Joo, Jean-Francois Magnaval, Milad Badri

“…The findings of the univariate analysis revealed that residency in rural areas (p <0.001), using unpurified water (p <0.001), contact with dog (p =0.002), contact with soil (p <0.001), consumption of improperly washed vegetables (p <0.001), and history of drinking untreated water (p <0.001) were risk factors associated with toxocariasis. …”
Get full text

Gouvernance intégrée du risque sur le Plateau de Yungui, Chine : la catastrophe associée aux tempêtes de neige et aux pluies givrantes de 2008 by Qian Ye, Ming Wang, Jiarui Han

“…Au cours des deux dernières décennies, alors que la région a bénéficié d’un développement économique et social rapide, la dégradation de la végétation, la pollution de l’eau et l’appauvrissement du sol, ainsi que d’autres problèmes environnementaux, sont devenus des préoccupations majeures pour la région. …”
Get full text

The “guild” concept in riparian ecology: Use, limitations and prospects for improving the reproducibility and transferability of results by Philippe Janssen

“…This was formalized by Merritt et al. 2010 with the concept of “riparian vegetation-flow response guilds”, with the aims to develop general frameworks and transfer patterns from one system to another. …”
Get full text

Optimizing in vitro introduction of wild common hop (Humulus lupulus L.) specimens using plant hormones by Olga V. Bychkova, Olga N. Mironenko, Elena P. Myakisheva, Inga Yu. Ivanova, Dmitry A. Dementiev

“…Hop (Humulus lupulus L.) is a perennial crop propagated vegetatively. There are a number of problems associated with preserving the gene pool, obtaining certified planting material, and replenishing the collection of hop varieties. …”
Get full text

Rural-urban transformation shapes oasis agriculture in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains by Youness Boubou, Kira Fastner, Andreas Buerkert

“…For the GIS analyses, historical aerial images, multispectral satellite images, and drone-based surveys were used to generate manually classified agricultural fields and NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) time series. Our results show a major decline in cultivated land from 13 ha to 6.8 ha over the past 50 years accompanied by an expansion of modern infrastructure since the 2000s. …”
Get full text

Air Quality Assessment by Moss Biomonitoring and Trace Metals Atmospheric Deposition by Pranvera Lazo, Alda Kika, Flora Qarri, Lirim Bekteshi, Shaniko Allajbeu, Trajce Stafilov

“…It is confirmed by the association of these elements with iron which is a typical crustal element that originates mostly from lithogenic dust in sparsely vegetation regions. Fe, Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn were mostly higher between a few regions with few obvious anomalies positioned in the center of the country with high industrial activity, in the areas with heavy traffic, and in the cross-borders of Albania with Monte Negro and Greece mostly emerging from the local contribution of anthropogenic activities, local lithology, and transboundary pollution sources. …”
Get full text

Comparison of Analytic Hierarchy Process and Frequency Ratio Methods in Landslide Susceptibility Analysis: Example of Akçaabat and Düzköy districts of Trabzon province by Melek Dalkes, Mehmet Seren Korkmaz

“…A total of 13 criteria which are respectively; slope, curvature, lithology, precipitation, aspect, topographic wetness index (TWI), distance to rivers, distance to highways, distance to fault lines, land use, soil type, elevation and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) for landslide susceptibility are evaluated as effective to cause landslides as a result of the literature review. …”
Get full text

Evaluating multiannual sedimentary nutrient retention in agricultural two-stage channels by Kaisa Västilä, Tom Jilbert

“…Abstract The two-stage channel (TSC) design with a vegetated man-made floodplain has been recommended as an alternative to conventional re-dredging for managing suspended sediment (SS) and nutrient loads in agricultural streams. …”
Get full text

Species Composition, Diversity, and Habitat Association of Medium- and Large-Sized Mammals in Chimit-Kolla, Abay Gorge, Ethiopia by Mengistu Wale, Mesele Yihune

“…Forest habitat has the highest species diversity (H’ = 2.276) than riverine vegetation and wooded grassland. Mammal species showed a considerable similarity among habitats, and the highest similarity was recorded between forest and wooded grassland (S = 0.8). …”
Get full text

Episodic Gregariousness Leads to Level‐Dependent Core Habitats: A Case Study in Eastern Copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix) by Tyler C. Christensen, Robert Kwait, Michael Van Clef, Brooke Maslo

“…Male core habitats were open and thickly vegetated while those of females were moderately forested, with gravid female core habitats containing ample woody debris. …”
Get full text

Comprehensive propagation of errors for the prediction of woody biomass by Stephen H. Roxburgh, Keryn I. Paul

“…Abstract Managing vegetation to sequester carbon in biomass requires estimates to meet standards for accuracy, with methods that are transparent, verifiable and cost‐effective. …”
Get full text