... on the biodiversity of communities of mycorrhizal fungi and rhizobial soil bacteria. Exotic tree plantations appear ... certain climatic conditions, an abrupt decrease in soil microbial diversity which lead to significant degradation ...
... cover crop is most effective in retaining nutrients in tropical soils. An international team of scientists from Brazil ... storage after 19 years of crop production on a tropical soil in southern Brazil. The results, published ...
... retaining some of its ancestor's physical characteristics. "The new ant species is hidden in environmentally stable tropical soils with potentially less competition from other ants ...
... . B. pseudomallei lives in tropical soil and is endemic in southeast Asia and northern Australia, where ... survey in the tropical Darwin area of Australia, the study's authors found that the environmental factors describing the soil ...
... to survive in soil, awaiting favorable conditions for germination) is short, lasting only for a few years at most. But in the tropical ... of pathogens and decay organisms that proliferate in moist tropical soils." The results imply that buried seeds ...
A long-term study on the effect of sewage sludge on tropical soil.
... for agriculture to keep up with the growing global population. "In most tropical soils plants have enormous difficulty in obtaining ... fertilizers. "While our applied research is focused on Colombia it could be applied in many other tropical regions of the world," says Sanders ...
... environments for prospecting new species are thought to be coral reefs, seafloor mud and moist tropical soils. But smaller life forms are not well ...
... the first scientist to collect slime molds from soils in Panama's Barro Colorado Nature Monument ... take samples of slime molds, the most abundant predators of soil bacteria and fungi, in tropical soils ...
... nutrient. Typically in short supply, particularly in tropical soils, phosphorus is unique among fertilizer ... the authors found was an example that illustrates how the combination of management and soil type frames the phosphorus-related concerns ...
... Wood, who has died aged 75, was a pioneering tropical soil biologist and a champion marathon runner ... a basic reference for workers in termite biology and tropical agriculture, constantly inspiring new studies ...
