Non-agricultural land use types include residential, industrial, natural habitat, and other. For the analysis, I join artichokes with vegetable row crops, blueberries and vine crops with caneberries, and cover crops and unknown agricultural land with fallow ground, given the limited number of parcels in each of these categories. These detailed land survey data are coupled …
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The Watsonville Recycled Water Facility delivers recycled water to growers along the coast
In 1980, the California Department of Water Resources defined 447 groundwater basins, sub-basins, and other water storage types, and highlighted the Pajaro Valley water basin to be one of 11 basins facing severe overdraft . Due to this classification, the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency was established in 1984 to combat overdraft and salinity problems by …
It is unclear how many samples would be needed to accurately determine infestation levels
Interestingly, a global reduction by approximately 20% in gray matter CBF was not only observed two hours after the intake of a single dose of 184 mg caffeine , but also following the consumption of 2820 mg black tea solids containing 184 mg caffeine that is equivalent to about six cups of tea.This suggests that flavonoids in …
Fruits were collected from the entire bush and randomly separated into three subsets
Various antimicrobial compounds are correlated with AFR resistance, including 1-acetoxy-2-hydroxy- 4-oxoheneicosa-12,15-diene and avocadynone acetate in avocado, and dopamine and dopamine-derivatives in banana. In blueberry, resistance was previously hypothesized to come from the interaction of several compounds, including phenolics and organic acids . Supportive of this hypothesis, two non-anthocyanin f lavonoids from blueberry fruit, quercetin 3-Orhamnoside and …
These fine-scale interactions collectively shape community responses to the species dieback
Although Sitka spruce was the second most important species in sapling regeneration in the affected forests, this species played a less important role in the conifer community composition in subsequent stages of stand development. Spruce has been found to have lower regeneration than western hemlock on disturbed sites but higher survival rates; however, western hemlock regeneration …
Asparagine and glutamine are converted to aspartic and glutamic acids during liquid hydrolysis
Methylamine and ethylamine, the degradation products of glycine and alanine, are detected in increasingly high abundances with age in ancient sulfate samples up to ~40Ma. The comparison of these concentrations to their parent amino acids allow for the calculation of glycine and alanine decarboxylation rates and are assumed to be indicative of these rates in …
Vitamin C in water is rapidly oxidized and can act as a pro-oxidant
Surveys conducted during the first two years of the study throughout the entirety of the six research blocks showed that the prevalence of PD in control vines actually declined slightly from the first to the second year , but not due to an increase in replanting efforts or vine death , Rather, this decline in …
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Patch size may influence a habitat’s capacity to host different densities of pollinators
We were unable to do this because of our study design, which did not examine seed set from single bee visits. Nevertheless, this is the first sunflower seed set study to detect an interspecific interactive effect at the community-level rather than at the individual-level. However, despite the importance of these interactive effects on sunflower yield, …
Some small fruit varieties were numbered since this information is proprietary
Moreover, recombination could also occur at genomic regions other than the antibiotic insertion site, as the whole genomic DNA was used as donor to generate these recombinants. However, due to the bias of the method used here that selected recombinants acquiring antibiotic resistance, recombination that occurred at other regions in the genome may not have …
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A laurel sumac seedling was placed into each of eight styrene cages per block
Paper sprayed with Tangle Trap sticky coating was placed a) at the base of the plants with a ring of sticky tape around the base of the stem and partially on the stem of the plant to capture any insects crawling down, and b) extending from the base of the plant horizontally outward above the pot surface …
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