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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Plant Foliage"”.
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Stress detection in loblolly pine using relative apparent temperatures
… from non-stressed loblolly pine by increased foliage temperatures was tested. The foliage temperatures of seedlings and trees were measured with an AGA Thermovision 680 system, imported by the AGA Corporation, Secaucus, New Jersey. The AGA Thermovision 680 system is a simple, easily …
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Analysing the influence of TNT on Southern African trees grass and shrubs using in-situ hyperspectral data
… detected using hyperspectral remote sensing of plant foliage, with the aim of being an area reduction aid. Increasing concentrations of TNT was administered to a study sample of five species of trees, five species of grasses and four species of shrubs, and leaf-clip readings were taken at …
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The Direct and Indirect Effects of Insectivory by Birds in Two Neotropical Forests
… predation can affect arthropod abundance and plant damage are few, however, and restricted to saplings in relatively low diversity systems. In two lowland tropical forests, I tested whether birds indirectly defend canopy and understory plant foliage from arthropod herbivores. The two forest …
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How availability and quality of nectar and honeydew shape an Australian rainforest ant community
… to consume nectar from extrafloral nectaries (34 plant species) or from flowers (14 plant species), and wound sap exudates (three plant species). Six nectar-foraging ant species attended trophobionts (including at least 12 species of homopterans and two species of lycaenid caterpillars) for …
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Analysis of organosilicone surfactants and their degradation products
… enabled investigation of Silwet L-77 uptake into plant foliage (Chenopodium album). The influence of Silwet L-77 and constituents thereof on herbicide uptake was addressed, and dosage, spread, surfactant structure, solvation and solubility were implicated as important for uptake enhancement. …