Testing Restaurant Compost For Greenhouses
...te will provide enriched soil for community garden plots inthe greenhouses. We know this will work in Ithaca, and it should help anycommunity with commercial food wastes and vacant lots." Starting last fall, the 15-member student group conducted a mail survey of 120Ithaca-area restaurants then followed u...New Edition Of Ecological Monographs Is Now Available
...n populations of black ash (Fraxinusnigra). Study plots were designated around Lake Duparquet in Quebec to witness theeffects of flooding on black ash populations surrounding the lake. Both naturaland gradual fluctuations in spring flood levels have enabled black ashpopulations to adapt to their changing ......arage-door openers to pull a tent overexperimental plots at night. This blocks re-radiation of heat from th... soil andincreases nighttime temperatures over the plots by two degrees centigrade, whichwill help determine blue grama's response. Colorado State's ...Reusing Ag Drainage Water An Option For West Side Farm Sustainability
...eldednearly 1.3 cords per acre, while in untreated plots it yielded about half asmuch. The best yield, however, does not appear to offset the land, plant, labor,gypsum, irrigation and other costs. But that doesn't mean eucalyptus can't be tapped to help solve the ag drainageproblem. Agricultural economist ......land. The experimental study is using large fenced plots (exclosures) to determine whether removal of nutri...e or recover marsh vegetation. Twenty experimental plots were placed in the marsh requiring 1.5 miles of fencing; an additional 38 unfenced control plots als....... In 1990, researchers began monitoring 450 sample plots to determine thediversity of land animals at the 75,000-acre Golden Gate National RecreationArea near San Franciso. The monitored habitats consisted of coastal grassland,scrub and evergreen woodlands, some of which were under active grazing or hadexp...Soil Variation Important In Natural Plant Communities
... complex than originally thought." Garden plots are now underway to confirm that the degree of soilheterogeneity can influence competitive outcomes in natural soil settings.Ultimately, the researchers hope to predict how and why soil patches change intime, and how such patchiness alters the course...USGS To Present Diverse Research At ESA Annual Meeting
... The study examined vegetative richness in sample plots scatteredthroughout the park. The results indicate that forest areas with the fewestnative species exhibited no evidence of exotics, while vegetative areas that hadthe highest species diversity, averaged triple the number of exotics foundover all the...Purdue Golf Course Serves Double Duty As Research Lab
... round, the green is also the site of 18 research plots that are testing various cultivars of bentgrass f...s next to the course. Those are the turf research plots of the new William Daniel Turfgrass Research and Diagnostics Center, which is adjacent to the cours...Detecting Deer: New Method For Counting Population In Urban Areas
...nd terrain. The observers covered 65-yardtransect plots indicated by bright-colored, numbered plywood squa...to be made. But the GPS keeping us on our transect plots was the most important addedfeature to our study." Excessive deer pose several problems for research...USGS Responds to Amphibian Declines With Program In Great Smokey Mountains National Park
...hibians, USGS scientists will hike to remote study plots where they will eventually turn over almost every stick and stone and wade in most creeks. They will also drive park roads after severe thunderstorms looking for amphibians moving to mating ponds. Their inventory will provide information on the condi...Oak Regeneration In Some Ohio Forests Is Failing, Researchers Find
...amined the patterns of hardwoodregeneration in 108 plots in four stands of a mature mixed-oak forest inSoutheastern Ohio. The area studied gets as much as 10 to 15 percent of theavailable sunlight and has moderately dry soil. McCarthy collected data for the site condition study in 1995, a yearbefor...Fighting Wheat Scab In New York State
...esearch team will test biocontrol strains in field plots in New York in 1998. "Biological control may become an important component in controlling wheat scab and other cereal diseases, while at the same time increasing the quality of wheat grain for human consumption," Bergstrom said. "There is no quick s...No Such Luck: Nitrogen From Air Pollution Unlikely to Moderate Global Warming
...he effects of experimentally added nitrogen in 162 plots in three Minnesota grasslands. "We added nitrogen at rates equivalent to what's deposited from the atmosphere in Minnesota and the Ohio Valley, right up through the amounts of highly agricultural and industrial areas of Europe," said Tilman. "Two of...... vines were planted in experimental grape breeding plots in 1968. Fruit has been observed since 1974. Promising results have been reported from Marquis trials in Arkansas, Indiana, and Michigan. A Cornell trial of Marquis at the Lawrence Farm in the Hudson Valley has been very successful. Semi-commerci...