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FROM TURF TO TURF: FUNGAL INVASION OF ASCOCORYNE TURFICOLA IN A NORTHERN MICHIGAN BOG
… is the first paper to report <em>Ascocoryne turficola</em> Boud. 1905 (Helotiales: Ascomycota) within the United States. It is an obligate bog fungus native to Europe and Siberia, where it is extremely rare across most of its range. <em>A. turficola</em> appeared at Lily Pond Bog in …
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Protection Covers for Trafficked Turf
… such as concerts, rallies, and festivals, impact turf health when held on natural turfgrass surfaces. The impact associated with these events is due to the placement of physical structures such as stages and seating areas and pedestrian and vehicular traffic on the turf surface. Trafficked turf …
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Integrated disease management on winter sports turf.
… management (IDM) strategy for winter sports turf. (Winter sports turf, or coarse turf, consists primarily of perennial rye grass, Lolium perenne, which is used for football, rugby and hockey pitches because of its wear tolerant characteristics). IDM involves the use of a number of control …
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Ammonia Volatilization and Urease Activity in Turf
… were conducted with recently developed turf microecosystems to determine the extent and mechanisms of NH(,3) volatilization from turf whose underlying soil had an acidic pH. Eight different nitrogen fertilizers were evaluated for NH(,3)-N losses after application to turf. The rate and …
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Vegetation on Icelandic Turf Houses and in Surrounding Habitats
… verkefni er hluti af verkefninu The Icelandic Turf House: A more-than-human story sem miðar að því að skoða torfbæinn ekki aðeins sem mannvirki heldur einnig sem vistkerfi. Í verkefninu er lögð áhersla á að skilgreina torfbæinn sem eitthvað meira en bara sögulegt mannvirki með því að bæta …
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Establishment Method and Cultural Practice Effects on Sports Turf
… water infiltration, gas exchange, rooting, and turfgrass quality caused by soil layering. Core-aerification and sand topdressing may help alleviate the problems associated with soil layering from the use of soil-based sod on sand-based rootzones. Therefore, the objectives of this research were …
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Nitrogen cycling in tall fescue turf with added clippings
… clippings may be recycled onto nearby areas of turf as an alternative to disposal of clippings in landfills. In May, 1991, two field studies were initiated to evaluate grass clippings as a nitrogen (N) source for tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea, Schreb. Rebel’) turf, and to determine the …
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Turf Talk: Injury Rates, Mechanisms, and Prevention in Adolescent Field Hockey
This MSc thesis contains three projects focused on Canadian adolescent field hockey players. Project A: Game Video Analysis Objective: To describe physical contact (PC) incidence rates (IR), PC types, PC intensity, and suspected injury (SI) IRs in female adolescent high school (HS) and club field …
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An Evaluation of downland turf re-creation, using invertebrates as indicators.
… ESA) were used to evaluate re-created downland turf, a habitat created under one of the scheme management options. The novel habitat was compared to adjacent areas of established downland and to the edges of arable fields, by collecting vegetation data, and using invertebrates as indicators of …
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The Fate of Dcpa and Diazinon in Turf Using Model Ecosystems
The environmental fate of two pesticides, DCPA (Dacthal) and Diazinon, was examined using model ecosystems. Experiments were designed to determine the effectiveness of the model ecosystem in pesticide research and to measure the effect of thatch and irrigation frequency on the transformation and …
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An Alternative Planting Treatment for Turf Open Spaces in Conservation Subdivisions
… of the English Landscape School: acres of turf providing little wildlife habitat or environmental benefits. Many homeowners are sold on the idea of great expanses of turf similar to a golf course. The open spaces are generally left to the homeowners association to maintain. In some cases it …
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Adoption, Spatial Patterns, and Behavioral Mechanisms in California Turf Removal Rebate Programs
… implemented a $450 million-dollar regional turf removal rebate program which provided homeowners with a cash rebate for every square foot of natural turf removed from their yard and replaced with a program approved alternative. This dissertation is divided into three distinct papers that …
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Investigations of Ethylene and Ethylene Inhibition, Ball Lie, and Synthetic Turf Color
… of creeping bentgrass through (1) exposure of turf to exogenous ethylene and (2) testing an ethylene inhibiting compound for use to alleviate stress related injury. Previous research demonstrated a correlation of stress injury and ethylene and lessening of injury through ethylene inhibition, …
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Factors Affecting the Pathogenicity of Selected Fungi Isolated From Putting Green Turf
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T18:06:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6808103.pdf: 2172209 bytes, checksum: 8d9ff951361d2ca055769499d261ab9e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1967
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Probing biology on its home turf: Tools for ethology and protein dynamics
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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Tropical intertidal seaweed turf communities of Jesser Point, Sodwana Bay, South Africa
Algal turfs play an important role in both tropical and temperate reef ecology, supporting a diverse array of macrofauna as well as being primary producers within both intertidal and subtidal ecosystems. Biodiversity and biomass patterns of the intertidal algal turfs at Sodwana Bay, South Africa …
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Environmental influence on postemergence chemical control of crabgrass (Digitaria spp.) in turf
… pratensis) and bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon) turf. BAS 514 was significantly influenced by variable environment. Section two of the research studied control of southern crabgrass (Digitaria ciliaris) by BAS 514 as influenced by morphological and physiological factors. BAS 514 efficacy was …
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Spatial factors affecting white grub presence and abundance in golf course turf
… classification of six land-cover types (turf, woods, wetland, urban, bare soil and water) on four landscape scales derived from 10 km x 10 km buffer zones surrounding each golf course. Pearson's correlation coefficients were calculated to reduce the number of variables to a few that were …
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