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    • Opportunities for the Development of a Borderland Rural Territory: A Case Study of the Hlučín Region 

      Šťastná, Milada; Vaishar, Antonín (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 2023)
      The study evaluates the regional development potential of a specific rural micro-region with regard to its qualitative aspect. It aims to set a general strategy for further development. The method is a geographical analysis ...
    • Lectotypification of two names of Carex buekii hybrids (Cyperaceae) and notes on their morphology, ecology and distribution 

      Więcław, Helena; Řepka, Radomír; Koopman, Jacob (Pensoft Publishers, 2023)
      Lectotypes are designated for two Carex buekii hybrid names. The typification is supplemented with notes on their morphology, ecology, and distribution.
    • Creative Economy: Support of Creative Hubs by the Public Sector in the Urban Environment 

      Chaloupková, Markéta; Kunc, Josef; Koutský, Jaroslav (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 2023)
      Creative hubs are institutional organization of newly emerging creative industries. Economic activities associated with creative industries are very often business-oriented and strongly independent. However, there are often ...
    • Environmental and Genetic Traffic in the Journey from Sperm to Offspring 

      Sengupta, Pallav; Dutta, Sulagna; Liew, Fong Fong; Dhawan, Vidhu; Das, Biprojit; Mottola, Filomena; Sláma, Petr; Rocco, Lucia; Roychoudhury, Shubhadeep (MDPI AG (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute-MDPI), 2023)
      Recent advancements in the understanding of how sperm develop into offspring have shown complex interactions between environmental influences and genetic factors. The past decade, marked by a research surge, has not only ...
    • Partial asynchrony of coniferous forest carbon sources and sinks at the intra-annual time scale 

      Silvestro, Roberto; Mencuccini, Maurizio; García-Valdés, Raúl; Antonucci, Serena; Arzac, Alberto; Biondi, Franco; Buttò, Valentina; Camarero, J. Julio; Campelo, Filipe; Cochard, Hervé; Čufar, Katarina; Cuny, Henri E.; de Luis, Martin; Deslauriers, Annie; Drolet, Guillaume; Fonti, Marina V.; Fonti, Patrick; Giovannelli, Alessio; Gričar, Jožica; Gruber, Andreas; Gryc, Vladimír; Kašpar, Jakub; Treml, Václav; Urban, Josef; Vavrčík, Hanuš; + 48 Authors (Nature Publishing Group, 2024)
      As major terrestrial carbon sinks, forests play an important role in mitigating climate change. The relationship between the seasonal uptake of carbon and its allocation to woody biomass remains poorly understood, leaving ...
    • The palaeoclimatic potential of recent oak tree-ring width chronologies from southwest Ukraine 

      Sochová, Irena; Kolář, Tomáš; Árvai, M.; Bošeľa, M.; Čufar, K.; Kern, Z.; Kyncl, J.; Marčiš, P.; Mészáros, I.; Morgós, A.; Mursa, A.; Popa, A.; Roibu, C-C.; Sopushynskyy, I.; Rybníček, Michal (Elsevier GmbH, Urban und Fischer Verlag GmbH, 2024)
      Better insights into spatio-temporal climate signals are needed to understand more clearly the applicability to palaeoclimatic analysis and dendrochronological dating of the long tree-ring oak chronologies currently being ...
    • Mycorrhizal associations modify tree diversity-productivity relationships across experimental tree plantations 

      Luo, Shan; Schmid, Bernhard; Hector, Andy; Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael; Verheyen, Kris; Barsoum, Nadia; Bauhus, Juergen; Beyer, Friderike; Bruelheide, Helge; Ferlian, Olga; Godbold, Douglas Lawrence; Hall, Jefferson S.; Hajek, Peter; Huang, Yuanyuan; Hölscher, Dirk; Kreft, Holger; Liu, Xiaojuan; Messier, Christian; Nock, Charles; Paquette, Alain; Parker, John D.; Parker, William C.; Paterno, Gustavo B.; Reich, Peter B.; Rewald, Boris; Sandén, Hans; Sinacore, Katherine; Stefanski, Artur; Williams, Laura; Eisenhauer, Nico (Wiley-Blackwell, 2024)
      Decades of studies have demonstrated links between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, yet the generality of the relationships and the underlying mechanisms remain unclear, especially for forest ecosystems. Using 11 ...
    • What are the critical success factors for small farming businesses? Evidence from Zambia 

      Malesu, Maureen Lupunga; Syrovátka, Pavel (Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2024)
      Small farming businesses play a cardinal role in most countries, as they contribute to food security, employment creation, and rural development. However, small farming businesses face a number of challenges that have ...
    • Effects of plant diversity on productivity strengthen over time due to trait-dependent shifts in species overyielding 

      Zheng, Liting; Barry, Kathryn E.; Guerrero-Ramírez, Nathaly R.; Craven, Dylan; Reich, Petr B.; Verheyen, Kris; Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael; Eisenhauer, Nico; Barsoum, Nadia; Bauhus, Jürgen; Bruelheide, Helge; Cavender-Bares, Jeannine; Dolezal, Jiri; Auge, Harald; Fagundes, Marina V.; Ferlian, Olga; Fiedler, Sebastian; Forrester, David I.; Ganade, Gislene; Gebauer, Tobias; Haase, Josephine; Hajek, Peter; Hector, Andy; Hérault, Bruno; Hölscher, Dirk; Hulvey, Kristin B.; Irawan, Bambang; Jactel, Hervé; Koricheva, Julia; Kreft, Holger; Lanta, Vojtech; Leps, Jan; Mereu, Simone; Messier, Christian; Montagnini, Florencia; Rewald, Boris; Godbold, Douglas Lawrence; Yan, Enrong; Hautier, Yann; + 33 Authors (Nature Publishing Group, 2024)
      Plant diversity effects on community productivity often increase over time. Whether the strengthening of diversity effects is caused by temporal shifts in species-level overyielding (i.e., higher species-level productivity ...
    • Bio-based phase change material for enhanced building energy efficiency: A study of beech and thermally modified beech wood for wall structures 

      Grzybek, Jakub; Nazari, Meysam; Jebrane, Mohamed; Terziev, Nasko; Tippner, Jan; Petutschnigg, Alexander; Schnabel, Thomas (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2024)
      This study investigated the impregnation of beech and thermally modified beech (TMB) with a ternary mixture of capric acid, palmitic acid, and stearic acid as a bio-based phase change material (BPCM). Finite element method ...
    • Semantic segmentation of plant roots from RGB (mini-) rhizotron images-generalisation potential and false positives of established methods and advanced deep-learning models 

      Baykalov, Pavel; Bussmann, Bart; Nair, Richard; Smith, Abraham George; Bodner, Gernot; Hadar, Ofer; Lazarovitch, Naftali; Rewald, Boris (BioMed Central Ltd., 2023)
      Background Manual analysis of (mini-)rhizotron (MR) images is tedious. Several methods have been proposed for semantic root segmentation based on homogeneous, single-source MR datasets. Recent advances in deep learning ...
    • Molecular Characterization of 'Candidatus Phytoplasma prunorum' in the Czech Republic and Susceptibility of Apricot Rootstocks to the Two Most Abundant Haplotypes 

      Kiss, Tomáš; Šafářová, Dana; Navrátil, Milan; Nečas, Tomáš (MDPI AG (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute-MDPI), 2024)
      'Candidatus Phytoplasma prunorum' is one of the most destructive pathogens of Prunus species, where susceptible species render unproductive several years after infection. In epidemiology, the molecular characterization of ...
    • Economic and Financial Condition of Farms in Poland and Czechia During the COVID-19 Pandemic 

      Stępień, Sebastian; Smędzik-Ambroży, Katarzyna; Svobodová, Eliška; Zdráhal, Ivo; Tošović-Stevanović, Aleksandra (Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics National Research Institute, 2024)
      The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the functioning of the entire economy. However, the strength of the impact was not uniform across sectors, with some affected more severely and others only slightly. Due to its importance, ...
    • The Impact of Natural Disturbances on the Central European Timber Market-An Analytical Study 

      Březina, David; Michal, Jakub; Hlaváčková, Petra (MDPI AG (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute-MDPI), 2024)
      Central European countries are strategic wood exporters in the European and international wood trade. In the context of wood exporters, Czechia, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, and Austria are the important countries providing ...
    • Study on the antioxidant potential of Catharanthus species and its thermal stability in sunflower oil model system 

      Awasthi, Yogesh Kumar; Sharma, RenuB.; Rustagi, Sarvesh; Thakur, Arti; Katyal, Mehak; Thakur, Sheetal; Dulta, Kanika; Aman, Junaid; Malik, Sumira; Sláma, Petr (Taylor & Francis AS, 2024)
      The studies analyze the efficiency of Catharanthus alba and Catharanthus roseus cultivars as a natural antioxidant measuring antioxidant potential through two methods. In the first method, antioxidant activity was estimated ...
    • Calculation and operational assessment of tyre contact areas in the tractor-and-trailer unit 

      Marušiak, Milan; Zemánek, Tomáš; Neruda, Jindřich; Nevrkla, Pavel (Česká akademie zemědělských věd, 2024)
      This paper deals with the verification of models for the calculation of the contact area with the soil using data measured during the testing of a tractor-and-trailer unit. The main emphasis was put on the method of ...
    • First observation of the beetle Sericoderus lateralis consuming Cladosporium fulvum in a greenhouse tomato: potential for biological protection or risk to the crop? 

      Psota, Václav; Bezděk, Jan; Harvey, Liam (Institute of Plant Protection, 2024)
      For the first time, the mycophagous beetle Sericoderus lateralis (Gyllenhal, 1827) was documented feeding on tomato leaf mold (Cladosporium fulvum Cooke, 1878) tissues. The phenomenon was observed during the years 2022 and ...
    • Mathematical modelling and optimization of the granulation process of loose compound feed for broilers 

      Yermukanova, Alma; Stankevych, Georgii; Podobed, Leonid; Zhiyenbayeva, Saule; Mrkvicová, Eva (Zdruzenie HACCP Consulting, 2024)
      The article presents the results of studying the indicators of the crumbling of granules and the specific energy costs of experimental batches of granulated feed for broilers. The process of granulation of compound feed ...
    • Hranický kras – analytická mapa 

      Sedláček, Jozef; Kohoutková, Kristýna; Vavrouchová, Hana; Klepárník, Radim; Oppeltová, Petra; Geršl, Milan; Ulrich, Ondřej; Chytrý, Kryštof; Kučera, Petr (Mendelova univerzita v Brně, 2024)
      Soubor map s odborným obsahem se věnuje Hranickému krasu - hydrotermálnímu krasu nacházejícímu se na výběžku karbonátových hornin devonského a paleozoického stáří u města Hranice v České republice. Cílem analytických map ...
    • Internal Image of Czech Tertiary Business Schools and Its Influence on The Interest of New Applicants for Study 

      Pavelková, Jana; Turčínková, Jana; Šácha, Jakub (Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze, 2024)
      Attracting prospective students could be difficult and expensive. Candidates, when choosing a future school for their studies, consider a great number of factors. Information from official university websites does not ...