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Eucalypt Woodlands A Guide To Management, Liz Brown, Colin Holt

Natural resources published reports

This guide was mainly developed using information gathered from studies in Salmon gum (E. salmonophloia) woodlands. However, the principles in this guide can be broadly applied as it considers the general ecological processes that occur within most woodlands.

If your goal is to restore a woodland to a healthy, functioning unit with a range of original species, this guide provides a way of diagnosing the health of individual woodlands and some of the causes of poor health. It also suggests some relevant management actions.

There is a huge array of different types of Euclaypr Woodlands in the Western Australian Whearbelr, …

Managing Eucalypt Wheatbelt Woodlands - Revegetation On Farms Information Kit, David Bicknell

Natural resources published reports

Revegetation on farms

The Revegetation on Farms Project and the material in this Information Kit is targeted at the agricultural zone of Western Australia with less than 600 mm rainfall. Some of the information is valid outside this range.

All information is provided in good faith, to help make informed revegetation decisions leading to sustainable land use.

Varying The Abundance Of O Antigen In Rhizobium Etli And Its Effect On Symbiosis With Phaseolus Vulgaris, K. Dale Noel, Lennart Scott Forsberg, Russell W. Carlson

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Judged by migration of its lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in gel electrophoresis, the O antigen of Rhizobium etli mutant strain CE166 was apparently of normal size. However, its LPS sugar composition and staining of the LPS bands after electrophoresis indicated that the proportion of its LPS molecules that possessed O antigen was only 40% of the wild-type value. Its LPS also differed from the wild type by lacking quinovosamine (2-amino-2,6-dideoxyglucose). Both of these defects were due to a single genetic locus carrying a Tn5 insertion. The deficiency in O-antigen amount, but not the absence of quinovosamine, was suppressed by transferring into …

Germination, Growth Pattern And Competitive Ability Of Erect Spiderling (Boerhavia Erecta L.), Corsennie U. Abordo-Mabayag

Graduate Student's Output

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Interest Rate Liberalization On The Supply Of And Demand For Agricultural Credit In The Philippines, Irene B. Binohlan

Graduate Student's Output

No abstract provided.

Air Pollution Damage From An Aluminum Sulfate Manufacturing Firm In Mambugan Antipolo City, Philippines, Jhoana Virtucio Alcalde

Graduate Student's Output

No abstract provided.

Is Reproduction By Tree Swallows (Tachycineta Bicolor) Cost-Free?, Michael T. Murphy

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

We manipulated brood sizes of Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) in 1996 and 1997 to test for the existence of intra- and intergenerational costs of reproduction. Modal clutch size was six eggs, but experimental brood sizes ranged from two to nine young. Nestling starvation was higher in 1996 (and dependent on brood size) than in 1997, but in both years enlargement of brood size resulted in increased productivity. Nestling mass near fledging was negatively correlated with brood size, but tarsus length and wing chord were not. Food deliveries by parents increased steadily between broods of two to six young but then …

Morus Alba L., John E. Ebinger

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Improved Beef Demand Benefits Nebraska Cattle Producers, Richard T. Clark

Cornhusker Economics

From 1979 until 1997 inflation-adjusted, retail beef prices in the U.S. declined by over 30%. During this same time period, per capita consumption declined about 10 pounds. These two facts, declining prices and declining consumption, lead to the conclusion that demand for beef in the U.S. declined over this time period.

A New North American Swallowtail Butterfly: Description Of A Relict Subspecies Of Pterourus Troilus (Papilionidae) From The Southern Tip Of Florida, Ronald R. Gatrelle

The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey

A neotype is designated for Papilio troilus Linnaeus, 1758 from Middleton Place Plantation, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States. A neotype is designated for Papilio ilioneus J.E. Smith, 1797 from Burke County, Georgia. Abbot’s ilioneus figures in Smith are the first published representations of nominotypical Pterourus troilus troilus. Papilio troilus variation texanus Ehrmann, 1900 was described from Houston, Texas. The texanus type is in the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The name texanus was restricted (by original description) to a gray male form and is not subspecifically available under International Code for Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) article 45.5 or …

Spiranthes Cernua (L.) Rich., Preston Skultety

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes, September 23rd, 2000, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Next Meeting Date.; Long Range Planning.; Membership.; Treasurer.; Website.; Magazine.; Merchandising.; History.; Dale Longanecker.; Life Membership Project.; Reimbursement.; 2nd Vice President Vote.; Paid Help for Merchandising.;

Spiranthes Cernua (L.) Rich., Tad M. Zebryk

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Environmental Finance Charette, Hyannis Park On Lewis Bay: A Case Study, New England Environmental Finance Center, Environmental Finance Center Of University Of Maryland

Water

The town of Yarmouth currently has a $30 million septic sludge treatment plant and transport lines in place. The vast majority of the dwellings and businesses in the Hyannis Park area are on septic systems that are viable and Title 5 compliant, regardless of age. Conventional, "non-failing" septic systems, however, were never intended to remove form their effluent nutrients such as nitrogen. These have become recognized as an environmental threat only as our understanding of the impacts of excess nutrients on ecosystems has increased in recent decades.

Semantic Web And Information Brokering: Opportunities, Commercialization, And Challenges, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

From the chairs' report published in SIGMOD record: The keynote address entitled 'Semantic Web and Information Brokering: Opportunities, Early Commercializations, and Challenges' was delivered by Amit Sheth (University of Georgia and Taalee Corp). Sheth characterized semantics as the next step in the evolution of the WWW and stressed the importance of semantically organized information for supporting ubiquitous, powerful, accurate and efficient access to this information. Sheth also reviewed proposals for semantic interoperability frameworks such as the DAML(DARPA Agent Mark-Up Language), the Oingo family of tools for defining concepts and extracting knowledge from large databases, as well as several scenarios on …

Viola Pratincola Greene, John E. Ebinger

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Employee Motivation, Lance L. Cummins-Brown

Cornhusker Economics

Currently in the state of Nebraska, there is a shortage of agricultural workers. As Nebraska’s population continues to move east, and the size of grain and livestock operations continue to increase, finding and retaining employees will become a necessity for more agricultural producers. Research is being conducted at the University of Nebraska to improve the leadership skills of producers. Even though there are many skills successful leaders need to have, one of the most important is being able to motivate your employees. A recent study looked at the relationship between an employee’s source of motivation and the type of behaviors …

Measurements Of Excess O3, Co2, Co, Ch4, C2h4, C2h2, Hcn, No, Nh3, Hcooh, Ch3cooh, Hcho, And Ch3oh In 1997 Alaskan Biomass Burning Plumes By Airborne Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (Aftir), Jon G. Goode, Robert J. Yokelson, Darold E. Ward, Ronald A. Susott, Ronald E. Babbitt, Mary Ann Davies, Wei Min Hao

Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Publications

We used an airborne Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (AFTIR), coupled to a flow-through, air-sampling cell, on a King Air B-90 to make in situ trace gas measurements in isolated smoke plumes from four, large, boreal zone wildfires in interior Alaska during June 1997. AFTIR spectra acquired near the source of the smoke plumes yielded excess mixing ratios for 13 of the most common trace gases: water, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, nitric oxide, formaldehyde, acetic acid, formic acid, methanol, ethylene, acetylene, ammonia and hydrogen cyanide. Emission ratios to carbon monoxide for formaldehyde, acetic acid, and methanol were 2.2±0.4%, 1.3±0.4%, and …

A Review Of "Vanishing Borders: Protecting The Planet In The Age Of Globalization" By Hilary French: Implications For Peace, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article reviews a recent book by Hilary French, vice president for research at the Worldwatch Institute.

Spiranthes Cernua (L.) Rich., Tad M. Zebryk

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Verbena Urticifolia L., Bryan P. Schroeder

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

A Conserved Mechanism For Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing?, Eleanor M. Maine

Biology - All Scholarship

Proteins with homology to RNA-directed RNA polymerases function in post-transcriptional gene silencing: in quelling in the fungus Neurospora crassa, RNAi in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, and co-suppression in the mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana. These findings are consistent with a conserved mechanism operating in these diverse species.

Is Grass The Cheapest Feed?, Richard T. Clark

Cornhusker Economics

A recent IRM meeting with cattle producers in Gering highlighted the fact that different producers have different approaches to answering this question. It was quite obvious that the answer is “it depends.” It depends on the availability and cost of alternative sources of nutrition for the animal, labor costs and producer goals.

Spiranthes Ochroleuca (Rydb.) Rydb., Tad M. Zebryk

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Biology Department Publications: 2000, Sam Lindgren

Biology Department Bibliographies

This document is a noncomprehensive list of publications made by graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and faculty members in the Biology Department in 2000. It indexes those publications available through major databases, and serves as an archival record of the Department’s robust scholarly contributions.

Humulus Lupulus L., Bryan P. Schroeder

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Agriculture, Trade And The Wto, E. Wesley F. Peterson

Cornhusker Economics

The Uruguay Round (UR) of trade negotiations, conducted under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), ran from 1986 to 1994. The final UR agreement brought agriculture under the full discipline of the GATT for the first time. It also established the World Trade Organization (WTO) which incorporates all of the earlier agreements included in the GATT as well as the Agreement on Agriculture and several other components. These agreements were officially signed in Marrakesh, Morocco in 1995 and entered into force that same year after they were ratified by national governments, including that of the …

Legume Logic Number 121

Legume Logic

Contents

Is Green/Brown manuring the answer?

Field peas on the increase

Lupin record!

The future of chickpeas at risk

Pulse points

Lupins storm in!

From the pools

Table Of Contents Volume 11, Number Four, Fall 2000, Risk Editorial Board

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Table of contents for the journal RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (ISSN: 1073-8673)

Food Safety In The United States And The European Union: Sequel To A Case Study, Bryan Harris

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

The author reports on recent regulatory and legislative developments in the United States and European Union relating to toys imbedded in candy.