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Natural Resources (NR) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in natural resources throughout the world. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and engineers (on all academic and professional levels) all over the world to promote, discuss and share various new issues…
Juliana Guimarães Gerola, Juan Ricardo Rocha, Stella Cristiani Gonçalves Matoso, Leandro Dias da Silva, 1 1
Sandy soils have limitations for growing plants. In general, they have low fertility, high toxic aluminum content and low organic matter. The organic matter is responsible for most of the cation exchange capacity of these soils. Added to this, the low clay co…
Dalia Santa Cruz-Navarro, Rosa María Espinosa-Valdemar, Margarita Beltrán-Villavicencio, Alethia Vázquez-Morillas, Maribel Velasco-Pérez
Degradable plastic mulch is being used to overcome the negative environmental impacts of burning and landfilling agricultural plastic waste. In this study P. ostreatus was used to model the capacity of a vegetal species to degrade conventional and degradable…
Jaap Jan Schröder
Our attitude towards mineral nitrogen (N) fertilizers is ambivalent. N fertilizers have on one hand increased our supply of food, feed and other bio-based raw materials tremendously and also improved the use efficiency of land and labor, but have on the other…
Oyeniyi Abiola Oyewole, Oyeseyi Joshua Oyelade
The study of diversity and distribution of spiders was carried out at Obafemi Awolowo University, Southwestern Nigeria, in wet and dry seasons between October 2012 and April 2014. Spiders were collected from five different sampling sites in the study area: cu…
Silvana Alborés, Maria José Bustamante, Laura Franco Fraguas, Maria Pía Cerdeiras
Basidiomycetes are able to biodegrade waste and xenobiotic molecules through the production of extracellular enzymes. For example, white-rot fungi produce lignin-degrading enzymes which are capable of efficiently decolorizing dye solutions. Many mushrooms als…
Fabio Pinto Vieira, Valiya Mannathal Hamza
Updated data for 1417 localities have been assembled for purposes of assessments of geothermal resources in South America. Analyses of these data sets have allowed improved estimates of geothermal resource base and recoverable resources for thirteen countries…
Ephraim Ikechukwu Elenwo, Justine Ayaegbunem Akankali
The paper reviews environmental policies and strategies in the Nigerian oil and gas industry sector, assessing its efficiency, challenges and prospects. Essentially, the study established that the Environmental Policies and Strategies of Nigeria Oil and Gas I…
Greg Simpson, Michael E. Barnes, Timothy M. Parker, Jill Voorhees
The activities of all 1513 individuals who visited a public hunting and fishing area near Spearfish, South Dakota, USA, were recorded from May 16 to August 16, 2006. Over the entire period, slightly less than 60% of the visitors were engaged in fishing, and t…
Haileab Zegeye, Demel Teketay, Ensermu Kelbessa
The study was conducted on the islands of Lake Ziway, south-central Ethiopia. The aim of the study was to investigate the socio-economic factors affecting the vegetation resources and the indigenous resource management systems and practices on the islands. Da…
Nasir Ali, Muhammad Ammar Athar, Yasir Hayat Khan, Muhammad Idrees, Dawood Ahmad
Cellulases and hemicellulases are the main industrial sources from different microorganisms used to depolymerise plant biomass to simple sugars that are converted to chemical intermediates and biofuels, such as ethanol. Cellulases are formed adaptively, and s…
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