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The direct influence of climate change on marginal populations: a review
Climatic changes and their impact on animals and plants at the margins of their distributions are evident in terrestrial, limnic, and marine...
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Finding Promising Candidates for Wet Growing Conditions: The Effect of Two Row Spacings on Biomass Production of Four Bioenergy Prairie Cordgrass Populations in a Wet Marginal Land
Demand for energy and the environmental consequences associated with fossil fuel emissions has created a need for alternative energy sources. To...
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Reproductive Success of Marginal Populations of Dactylorhiza maculata (L.) Soó (Orchidaceae)
AbstractPopulations at the border of ranges are considered more vulnerable than those in the center. However, some recent reviews contradict this...
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Living at the Edge: A Comparative Study of the Central and Marginal Populations of Dactylorhiza traunsteineri (Orchidaceae) in the European Northeast of Russia
AbstractPeripheral populations are considered more vulnerable than central ones, but recent studies have questioned the existence of clear patterns...
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Enhancing Above and Below-Soil Arthropods to Improve Production on Marginal Lands
Improving marginal lands to overcome challenges in land use, such as land abandonment prevention and biodiversity conservation, has garnered...
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Enhancement of Soil Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: A Step Towards Restoring Marginal Soils
Soil quality restoration and maintenance are fundamental to achieving food security for the world’s growing population. Despite the importance of...
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Marginal Areas and Indigenous People Priorities for Research and Action
Marginal environments are characterized by constrained agricultural potential and resource degradation attributable to biophysical and...
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The Use of Nanofertilizers as Micronutrients to Improve Marginal Soils and Crop Production
The quality of agricultural soils contributes to the amount of food produced globally for the entire world’s population. However, there are several...
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Tick range expansion to higher elevations: does Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato facilitate the colonisation of marginal habitats?
BackgroundParasites can alter host and vector phenotype and thereby affect ecological processes in natural populations. Laboratory studies have...
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Reclamation Technologies for Marginal Soils in Africa: Strategies, Challenges, and Future Directions
This chapter examines the pressing problem of African soil degradation and looks at reclamation options to restore marginal soils to ensure...
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Behavioral selection in structured populations
The multilevel model of behavioral selection (MLBS) by Borgstede and Eggert (Behav Process 186:104370. 10.1016/j.beproc.2021.104370 , 2021) provides a...
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Characterising the molecular diversity of ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) at its western marginal range in Europe — phylogeographic insights and implications for conservation in Ireland
A large proportion of the western marginal range for common ash ( Fraxinus excelsior L.) is located on the island of Ireland. However, the molecular...
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Climate Change Resilient Crops to Combat Food and Nutrition Insecurity in Marginal Lands
Food security and environmental conservation are crucial worldwide issues, especially given climate change’s uncertainty. The food system still deals...
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Strengthening Crop Production in Marginal Lands Through Conservation Agriculture: Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa Research
Conservation agriculture (CA) holds significant potential for enhancing crop productivity and soil health in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), a region...
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Can laboratory-reared aphid populations reflect the thermal performance of field populations in studies on pest science and climate change biology?
Laboratory insect rearing provides well-developed tested insects for research in general biology, pest science and development of pest management...
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Reduced pollinator service in small populations of Arabidopsis lyrata at its southern range limit
Even though a high fraction of angiosperm plants depends on animal pollinators for sexual reproduction, little is known how pollinator service...
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Promoting Low-Input Agricultural Practices to Improve Marginal Lands for Sustainable Crop Production and Food Security in Sub-Saharan African Countries
This book chapter discusses approaches to promoting low-input agricultural practices to improve marginal lands for sustainable crop production and...
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Increases in regional brain volume across two native South American male populations
Industrialized environments, despite benefits such as higher levels of formal education and lower rates of infections, can also have pernicious...
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Shared genetic architectures of educational attainment in East Asian and European populations
Educational attainment (EduYears), a heritable trait often used as a proxy for cognitive ability, is associated with various health and social...
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Similarity and diversity of genetic architecture for complex traits between East Asian and European populations
BackgroundGenome-wide association studies have detected a large number of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with complex traits in...
