Global warming and eutrophication may interact and increase the invasiveness of certain aquatic plants. To test this hypothesis, a mesocosm experiment was conducted to investigate the growth, biomass allocation and carbon/nitrogen balance of the invasive aquatic plant Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.)...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to elucidate the impact of plant on the activity, abundance, and the community composition of the ammonia oxidizers, including both ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and bacteria (AOB). Moreover, the relationship between AOA and AOB in mangrove sediment was also...

Clonal plants benefit from the ability to translocate resources among interconnected ramets through clonal integration to colonise ubiquitous heterogeneous habitats, which may contribute to the invasiveness of exotic clonal plants. To test this hypothesis, a greenhouse experiment was conducted to...

The aim of this study was to determine whether farming leads to changes in gastrointestinal function and nitrogen metabolism in farmed mink (FA), as compared with their wild-living counterparts. Three digestibility and balance trials were carried out. Experiment I was performed in May, and...

The study was conducted to compare the effects of feeding Acacia auriculata (AA), Gmelina arborea (GA), Albizia lebbeck (AL) and Butryospermum parkii (BP) tree forages as a sole feed for Nigerian goats. Four goats (Yankasa) averaging one year and weighing 11.7±1.8 kg were used to measure the feed...

The Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) Program's annual national technical report has three objectives: (1) to present forest health status and trends from a national or a multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources, (2) to introduce new techniques for analyzing forest health data, and...

Three feeding experiments were conducted to determine the feed intake, apparent digestibility and nitrogen retention of growing goats fed with Tithonia diversifolia and supplemented with rumen fermentable protein (cassava root chips and mulberry leaves) and bypass proteins (banana leaves, jackfruit ...

Four Sikkim local does (average body weight 19.1±2.44 kg) were randomly distributed in an experiment based on a Latin square design, comprising of 4 animals, 4 treatments and 4 periods of 21 days each, with a 14-day adaptation period and a 7-day collection period. Four dietary treatments were mixed ...

Two trials were undertaken with European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) to estimate the protein requirements for maintenance and growth as well as the effect of dietary protein level on the activity of hepatic acetyl coenzyme-A carboxylase (ACoAC). Six diets were formulated to contain graded levels ...

24 Dorset Horn ewes, pregnant with twins, were fed diets containing 79 (LP), 116 (MP) or 157 g CP/kg DM (HP), each with an estimated ME concentration of 2.7 Mcal/kg DM, between days 111 and 140 of pregnancy; all ewes had been fed the same diet (2.7 Mcal ME, 120 g CP/kg DM) for the previous 30 days. ...