Urban pollutants have been identified as a significant source of environmental pollution, posing a risk to human health, the environment, and are toxic to flora and fauna. Highways are recognised as one of the key sources ...

Earthworm casts on golf courses affect the playability of the turf and can potentially damage mowing equipment. Traditionally this problem has been limited using chemical controls. It is estimated that 0.6% of the total ...

Soil health is dependent on its diverse communities of microbes. Many of these microorganisms enhance plant growth and enrich the soil. However, the interactions between communities of beneficial microbes remain ...

Domestication of plant species has substantially contributed to human civilization, but also caused a strong decrease in the genetic diversity of modern crop cultivars by selecting for high-yielding dwarf crops which are ...

Urban areas worldwide are affected by the urban heat island (UHI) effect whereby towns and cities are warmer than their rural backgrounds, having a negative impact on human health and well-being, energy use, and ecology. ...

The effects of xenobiotics application on the composition and function of soil microbial community were investigated in mountain grassland (Slovakia) and agricultural (UK) soils. Slovak soil was Cambisol, sampled from ...

According to the second law of thermodynamics, no process can be 100% efficient and all processes must increase the total entropy of the system they occupy. Therefore, living systems require a constant influx of low-entropy ...

The Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) has long debated how to define best practices. We argue that a principles-first approach offers more flexibility for restoration practitioners than a standards-based approach, ...