Agricultural and Forestry Science

Climate change to shift Kenya's breadbaskets

Kenyan farmers and agriculture officials need to prepare for a possible geographic shift in maize production as climate change threatens to make some areas of…

Orangutans plan their future route and communicate it to others

In order to attract females and repel male rivals, they call in the direction in which they are going to travel. Anthropologists at the University of Zurich…

Climate Change May Speed Up Forests’ Life Cycles

Nearly 80 percent of the species aren’t yet shifting their geographic distributions to higher latitudes. Instead, they’re staying in place – but speeding up…

MSU lands first drone

MSU researchers are using its first unmanned aerial vehicle to help farmers maximize yields by improving nitrogen and water management and reducing…

Does crop diversity affect pest control by natural enemy on an EMS using a microlandscape?

Professor GE Feng and his group from State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of…

UCSB researcher explores relationship between landscape simplification and insecticide use

While there was a positive relationship in 2007 –– more simplified landscapes received more insecticides –– it is absent or reversed in all previous years. The…

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