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Aug 19, 2025Open Access
Biofertilizers present a viable solution for enhancing soil fertility, improving plant nutrition, and advancing environmental sustainability in agriculture and forest ecosystems. These microorganism-based fertilizers not only supply essential nutrients to plants but also foster soil health, thereby reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizers. This review highlights various types of biofertilizers, such as mycorrhizal fungi, rhizobia, and compost, and examines their mechanisms of action and applic...
Sep 13, 2024Open Access
This study explores the ethnoecology, use of M. balsamina plant in traditional medicine and its magical environment in the Mongo-Léré region of Northern Chad. The plant is considered a celebrity due to its diverse uses, with tribal people having a rich knowledge about its diverse uses. However, the knowledge about M. balsamina is declining, and ethnomedicinal knowledge is mainly transferred to people and cultural festivals. The study aims to document the knowledge and practices...
Jan 31, 2024Open Access
Green spaces provide a variety of ecosystem services. Urban green spaces are particularly valuable because they provide cultural services to urban residents. This study examined people’s opinions of cultural ecosystem services in Ramna Park, Dhaka, Bangladesh. We examined the cultural ecosystem services that green places provide by surveying visitors in the study area about which cultural services they are frequently getting and what their primary activities are in such green areas, to learn how...
Feb 21, 2023Open Access
This research aims to highlight the effect of human activities and speculative fishing on the dynamic of Tiko mangrove landscapes. The study is based on the collection of bibliographical and factual data (field observations, botanical records) and the diachronic analysis of satellite images of the locality over the past five decades. The NDVI method was used to illustrate the dynamics of land use between 1976, 1986, 1996, 2006 and 2016. Botanical surveys were carried out in three transects 100 m...
Jul 19, 2022Open Access
For several decades, many households in rural areas have relied on surrounding forests for their livelihoods, safety nets and sustenance. This reliance is most often determined by the household’s characteristics, available forests and economic benefits. That notwithstanding, the demand for more farmlands and unsustainable harvesting of forest resources are pushing these forests into depletion. This rapid decline endangers the livelihoods of forest-reliant households, threatens biodiversity and i...
Jan 13, 2022Open Access
In many geographic areas influenced by tropical and temperate climates, natural forest ecosystems have been destroyed in favour of plantations of allochthonous trees which are economically profitable for different aspects of the timber industry. Some of these mature plantations degrade the soils and inhibit natural regeneration of the local flora; others, due to the physical constraints they impose, can contribute to the installation and the development of autochthonous taxa. The plantations of ...
Dec 24, 2021Open Access
The preservation of suburban agricultural land in the face of rapid urbanization in the West African region has been a major problem in recent decades. This paper examines the land tenure strategies used by farmers in relation to their assessments of the impact of urban growth. It is based on individual surveys conducted among farmers and landowners on the outskirts of the city of Lomé in Togo. This study reveals that perceptions differ according to gender and that women—although marginalized by...
Jun 29, 2020Open Access
Micronutrient or essential heavy metals viz. Copper (Cu), Zinc (Zn) and Iron (Fe) distribution trend were studied at the age of 6, 9 and 30 months old Heritiera fomes seedlings at three distinct saline zones viz. Chandpai (Oligohaline), Jungra (Mesohaline) and Munshiganj (Polyhaline) of the Sundarban mangrove forest. Among the observed micronutrients, Fe content comparatively lower than Cu and Zn. Relatively higher Cu was found in the root of 6 month age Heritiera fomes seedlings grown at the Ch...
Aug 20, 2019Open Access
Reforestation management goes through the knowledge of the tired out evolution after a forestry rest. The aim of this study was to assess biodi-versity concerning Terminalia superba Engl. & Diels and its undergrowth, and then quantify sequestered carbon stocks to appreciate the impact of reforestation on forest recovery and the enhancement of carbon stocks. The study was conducted at Bilala artificial forest in southeastern Re ...
Apr 19, 2018Open Access
A landscape is a mosaic of natural and/or artificial communities and wa-terbodies and may contain several distinct ecosystems. Human life depends on many services delivered by the water-based aquatic and land-based terrestrial ecosystems. A wide variety of aquatic ecosystems exist and alt-hough they represent a low percentage of the Earth’s surface, their roles and functions make them crucial. Aquatic ecosystems especia ...
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