Questions: Can cattle grazing help maintain plant diversity in coastal grasslands? What is the relationship between soil extractable nitrogen and plant diversity in sandy and infertile soils? How does ...

What special gardening technique was used 7,000 years ago in the Amazon jungle but only recently has reappeared in modern gardening? The answer is biochar, which is a specific type of carbon used as a ...

Gardening in the Colorado mountains presents a unique set of challenges. Temperature, intense sunlight, low humidity, short growing seasons, desiccating winds, extreme weather fluctuations, infertile ...

Rainforests on infertile wet soils support more than half of all plant species. Shrublands on infertile dry soils in southwestern Australia, jokingly called "knee-high tropical rainforests", support ...

Thus a major challenge for making better use of these marginal lands is not only to select but also to evaluate and optimize the adaptability and crop productivity under extreme climatic conditions ...

IT is well known that the United States Bureau of Soils does not attach the same importance to a chemical analysis of the soil as is usual elsewhere. The argument adopted is that all soils contain the ...