The Laborers of Nature: Economic Ornithology and the Role of Birds as Agents of Biological Pest Control in North American Agriculture, ca. 1880-1930

1995 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 172-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Evenden
2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrije Marković

Crop monocultures encourage the multiplication and spread of pest insects on massive and uniform crop. Numerous studies have evaluated the impact of plant diversification on pests and beneficial arthropods population dynamics in agricultural ecosystems and provided some evidence that habitat manipulation techniques like intercropping can significantly influence pest control. This paper describes various potential options of habitat management and design that enhance ecological role of biodiversity in agroecosystems. The focus of this review is the application and mechanisms of biodiversity in agricultural systems to enhance pest management.


2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Gagic ◽  
Cate Paull ◽  
Nancy A Schellhorn

Author(s):  
Ana Brígida Paiva

As works of fction, gamebooks offer narrative-bound choices – the reader generally takes on the role of a character inserted in the narrative itself, with gamebooks consequently tending towards being a story told in the second-person perspective. In pursuance of this aim, they can, in some cases, adopt gender-neutral language as regards grammatical gender, which in turn poses a translation challenge when rendering the texts into Portuguese, a language strongly marked by grammatical gender. Stemming from an analysis of a number of gamebooks in R. L. Stine’s popular Give Yourself Goosebumps series, this article seeks to understand how gender indeterminacy (when present) is kept in translation, while examining the strategies used to this effect by Portuguese translators – and particularly how ideas of implied readership come into play in the dialogue between the North-American and Portuguese literary systems.


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1999 ◽  
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pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan K. Knapp ◽  
John M. Blair ◽  
John M. Briggs ◽  
Scott L. Collins ◽  
David C. Hartnett ◽  
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