Urban environments are vulnerable to the introduction of non-native species and sometimes
contribute to their invasion success. Knowing how urban landscape features affect the …

We determined the temporal dynamic of cambial activity and xylem development of stone
pine (Pinus cembra L.) throughout the treeline ecotone. Repeated micro-sampling of the …

Agriculture consumes huge amounts of water in China and is profoundly affected by climate
change. This study projects the agricultural water use towards 2030 under the climate …

A sex pheromone trap was studied as a quantitative sampling device in a biological
monitoring scheme for codling moth populations in Michigan apple orchards. Factors …

Brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål), is an invasive pest of Asian origin
first detected in North Carolina in 2009. By 2015, it became an important pest in the …

Early leaf removal (ELR) applied in the grapevine cluster zone at bloom or pre-bloom (PB) is
a vineyard practice commonly utilized to reduce fruit disease and yield. In addition, the …

The generation time of Cydia pomonella (L.), measured as the number of degree-days
occurring from the start of a flight to the start of the following flight, was estimated for 176 …

Soil carbon (C) is a major driver of soil health, yet little is known regarding how sensitive
measures of soil C shift temporally within a single growing season in response to short-term …

A 3-parameter Boltzman and a 4-parameter Logistic non-linear regression model were
constructed to simulate the emergences and seasonal dynamics of the major moth pest …

Extending the "Degree Day" Concept of Plant Phenological Development to Include Water
Stress Effects Page 1 Ecology, 59(3), 1978, pp. 431-433 © 1978 by the Ecological Society of …