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New indications for the life habits of long-legged aphidlion-like larvae in about 100-million-year-old amber
Larvae of lacewings (Neuroptera) are known to be fierce predators today. Most characteristic are their prominent piercing-sucking stylets, which are...
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Cave Fauna
Cave faunaCave fauna comprises an inconspicuous but important component of AustraliaAustralia’s biodiversity.
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Impact of agricultural pesticides on ecosystem and human health: a case study in lower Gangetic plain, India
Gradually, agro-ecosystem is losing its sustainability in terms of its inclusive relationship with the surrounding environment due to accelerated...
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Molecular identification and biochemical characteristics of a delta class glutathione S-transferase gene (FcδGST) from Chinese shrimp Fenneropenaeus chinensis
Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are a superfamily of multifunction enzymes involved in the regulation of redox homeostasis and innate immune...
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Bibliometric analysis of rice and climate change publications based on Web of Science
To clarify the current situation, hotspots, and development trends in the field of rice and climate change topic research, a massive literature...
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Promotion of rice–duck integrated farming in the water source areas of Shanghai: its positive effects on reducing agricultural diffuse pollution
The paper aims to study the effects of replacing the conventional rice farming by the rice–duck integrated organic farming on the reduction of...
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Cretaceous integrative stratigraphy, biotas, and paleogeographical evolution of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas
The Cretaceous Period is a vital time interval in deciphering the evolutionary history of the Neo-Tethys Ocean and the convergence of different...
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Identification of Reference Genes for Normalizing Quantitative Real-Time PCR in Urechis unicinctus
The reverse transcription quantitative real-time PCR (RT-qPCR) has become one of the most important techniques of studying gene expression. A set of...
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Potential overwintering boundary and voltinism changes in the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens, in China in response to global warming
The brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens (Stål) is a major rice insect pest in China and other Asian countries. This study assessed a potential...
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Simulation of rice brown planthopper,
Nilaparvata lugens (Stal.) population and crop-pest interactions to assess climate change impactBrown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens (Stal.) development studied at six constant temperatures, 19, 22, 25, 28, 31 and 33 ±1 °C on rice plants...
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Simulation of climatic change impact on crop-pest interactions: a case study of rice pink stem borer Sesamia inferens (Walker)
As climatic change impacts would depend upon complex interactions between climatic and biological factors, crop simulation models would play an...
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Transcriptome of intraperitoneal organs of starry flounder Platichthys stellatus challenged by Edwardsiella ictaluri JCM1680
Platichthys stellatus is an economically important marine bony fish species that is cultured in China on a large scale. However, very little is known...
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The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Insect Pests in Cultivated Ecosystems: An Indian Perspective
Climate change is a variation either in the mean state of the climate or variability in its components, persisting for an extended period. It...
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Soil Conditioner and Fertilizer Industry
A soil conditioner is a material added to soil to improve its overall condition, especially plant growth and health and simultaneously it corrects...
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New planthoppers of the tribe Achilini (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea, Achilidae) from Baltic amber
New taxa of Achilini (Achilidae) are described from Baltic amber: Paratesum rasnitsyni gen. et sp. nov., Protomenocria notata gen. et sp. nov., Psycheo...
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Insect migration and dispersal with emphasis on Mediterranean ecosystems
Insects migrate in many different scales ranging from a few metres to many hundreds of kilometres. The holistic conceptual model hosts a suite of...
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Global water problems and their causes
In this section, the Advisory Council attempts a prospective assessment of the global water crisis. This criticality assessment is one of the few...
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RADAR-OBSERVED ’’FINE LINES‘‘ IN THE OPTICALLY CLEAR BOUNDARY LAYER: REFLECTIVITY CONTRIBUTIONS FROM AERIAL PLANKTON AND ITS PREDATORS
Sensitive Doppler radars regularly detect fine lines ofenhanced reflectivity in mesoscale boundary-layer convergence zones. Recent studies have...