Seedling

Between 2004-2014, carbon dioxide emissions increased at a shocking average rate of 2.5% annually.1 These carbon emissions come from a variety of sources such as homes, food production, and vehicle exhaust.2 The excess carbon in the atmosphere not only contributes to the greenhouse gas effect causing global temperatures to rise, but also has destructive effects on the environment such as extreme droughts, lowered biodiversity, and food source instability.3,4 In 2009, world leaders met in…

Rice-Wheat Farming Adaptation to Agro-ecosystem and Weather The rice-wheat farming system in the Indo-Gangetic plain occupies 13.5 M ha of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. In India rice-wheat farming system is the major source of food security as it produces 85% of cereal in 10 M ha. Initially large scale cultivation of in the North-western Indo-gangetic plain was wheat and Eastern Indo gangetic plain was rice due to the favourable climate. The adaptation and expansion of Rice-Wheat…

plants can relate to this Chinese philosophy. A lot of plants are good and try to help each other out. For example, when their attached to a harmful fungus they’ll send a signal to warn others. Another way trees show their good side is by helping seedlings that are in the shade and don’t get as much sunlight. They will send these plants more carbon than others to make sure they survive. Plants can also compromise, to an extent, with mycelia. Plants provide fungi with food in form of…

Good morning/afternoon, a rainforest is a forest that has annually 250 to 450 centimetres of rain. A tropical rainforest is a rainforest that is found close to the equator in the equatorial zone between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. Tropical rainforests are only found in environments that are the same temperature almost every day and are always wet. The reason Tropical rainforests are found in Nigeria is because Nigeria is located close to the equator which provides the…

This experiment was performed at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette campus on March 7, 2017. Pots were prepared using 30 0.95-liter black plastic pots. Each pot was labelled sequentially from 1 to 30 along with the soil treatment it would receive, either 100% vermiculite or 90% vermiculite, and the planting density, either 1, 2, 4, 8, or 16 seeds planted. The 100% vermiculite soil treatment was then prepared by using a clean 0.95-liter black plastic pot and adding 15 pots of vermiculite to…

He planted 10 seedlings from a tropical rainforest trees in a greenhouse. Some seedlings were allowed to grow in the same conditions as the rainforest, around 78 degrees fahrenheit. Others, he subjected them to a daily temperature of 95F and a peak of 102F. The results were surprisingly different from what we've grown accustomed to. Majority of the seedlings didn't die. Infact most of them thrived; growing faster and bigger under the…

II. Nature is not a Museum The gymnosperms are often called ‘Living Fossils’, or are dismissed as being primitive. Gymnosperms are indeed ancient: originating in the carboniferous period (Bowe, Coat, & dePamphilis, 2000). They can be divided into four monophyletic groups: ginkophytes, gnetophytes, cycads, and the largest of the four (with more than 600 extant species), conifers. Conifers account for the greatest diversity amongst the gymnosperms. This diversity might pale in comparison to that…

Becoming a forest ranger is more complicated than what people think. A bachelor's degree in forestry or an associate's degree with experience is required for this job. Is being a forest too dangerous? Throughout the job they may be exposed to chemical pesticides while battling forest pests, or use power equipment such as tools. Forest Rangers perform a wide range of tasks for state and national forests but being a forest ranger has some safety risks. Forest rangers jobs focus on protecting and…

Preface Bangladesh is a country of endless possibility. Especially in agriculture possibilities are so much luminous. The feasibility of success in oil palm cultivation can unveil a new era for the life style of the people of the country. Cultivation of oil palm will play a significant role to confirm food security, particularly to recover the crisis of edible oil in Bangladesh. By cultivating Oil palm we can easily save importing cost for edible oil as well as we can export a noteworthy figure…

There once was a village that lay deep in a dense forest. The village flourished, and the chief made the most use out of the village’s resources. The chief had a son who would often go to the forest outside the village to watch the birds flit from tree to tree, and would walk through it for hours on end. It was a clear, sunlit day when he was walking through the forest. As he ducked under a tree, he saw an unsettling sight. A section of the forest had been clearcut, and all that was left was a…