Michelle Lim, Macquarie University We all know action on climate change is urgently needed. But that doesn’t mean a forest should be razed to build a wind farm. Nor should vast fields of a single crop be grown year after year – reducing the number of other species that can live there – even if…
Month: July 2021
Friday Essay: Effects of Permaculture Practices on Soil Physicochemical Properties and Organic Matter Distribution in Aggregates: A Case Study of the Bec-Hellouin Farm (France)
Effects of Permaculture Practices on Soil Physicochemical Properties and Organic Matter Distribution in Aggregates: A Case Study of the Bec-Hellouin Farm (France) This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). Felix de Tombeur1*, Valentin Sohy1, Claire Chenu2, Gilles Colinet1 and Jean-Thomas Cornelis1 1TERRA Teaching and Research Centre, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of…
Friday essay: trees have many stories to tell. Is this our last chance to read them?
Gregory Moore, The University of Melbourne As tree scientist, I am fascinated by the magnificent biology of trees. I also find it enthralling and encouraging that trees are being appreciated by writers around the world right now. Three fresh books (chosen from a wider field of titles on the topic) exemplify how trees can be…
The secret life of fungi: how they use ingenious strategies to forage underground
Edith Hammer, Lund University and Kristin Aleklett, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences When you think of fungi, you’ll probably picture a huddle of chubby brown mushrooms, or the large, red-capped toadstools you stumble across in the woods. In doing so, you’re reducing fungi to their reproductive organs – tasty or striking as they may often…
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