Boian Plain is a subunit of the Romanian Plain affected, at least in the last 20 years, by periods of dryness and agro-meteorological drought with non-uniformity fall precipitation and warm air masses invasions from North Africa. For 2008-2013 timeframe, such phenomena with agro-climatic risk were...

Neophytes belong to a group of non-native plants, which were introduced by man either intentionally or unintentionally in different ways. The discovery of America is a historical milestone for non-native plant research. Most scientists use the term neophyte for species introduced after the year...

The paper presents the first records of Tetraneura (Tetraneurella) nigriabdominalis (Sasaki, 1899) (Eriosomatinae, Eriosomatini) from Poland, an alien species that has been expanding its range northward, which is presumably connected with climate warming. Secondary hosts of this aphid are different ...

Parthenium hysterophorus L., commonly known as Parthenium weed is an invasive weed and was first reported in Malaysia in 2013. This alien weed is now found in many parts of the country but it has not been recorded in Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang in Peninsular Malaysia and Sarawak in East...

In the northern Interandean Valley of Ecuador, the agriculture based on monocultures lacks of sustainability due increasing soil and water degradation, and instability in market prices. This situation requires diversifying into crops and agrosystems. The aim of this paper is to attract attention to ...

Pyricularia oryzae is the causal agent of rice blast disease, the most destructive, and an important disease of rice worldwide. To identify of host plants for P. oryzae in the north of Iran, and separation of this species from P. grisea, the infected tissues were sampled from rice, corn, sorghum,...

The botanical composition of red and roe deer and mouflon diet was studied in the mosaic landscape in Drahanská vrchovina highlands, Czech Republic. We focused on the proportion and quality of agricultural crops and natural forest plants and estimated quality of the herbivore diet. Diet quality was ...

This study investigated the occurrence and damage status of weeds in green vegetable fields in nine counties of Shanghai. The investigations in spring/summer and autumn/winter found 67 weed species, belonging to 24 families and 54 genera, most of which are grassy and compositae weeds. Annual and...

In 1973-2011 in Poznań, aphid catches were carried out using Johnson's suction trap. Since then the suction trap located at the Institute of Plant Protection - National Research Institute in Poznań has continuously recorded the daily and seasonal dynamics of aphid flights. The collected results has ...

Global warming is an expression meaning rising temperature due to climate changes in the atmosphere. Our world has been facing the threat of global warming more and more for a few decades. According to studies, a global temperature increase of above 2°C may cause problematic situations in many...