Making crops cry for help
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Issues are presented concerning the release of chemicals which attract a crop pest's predators as a means of safeguarding a plant crop which is under attack. The development of environmentally friendly strategies for pest control are discussed.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2001
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An indifference to boundaries
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The article discusses the process of dramatic departmental restructuring that is being undertaken by most of the world's largest universities to nurture the interdisciplinary research.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2008
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All creatures great and small
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Issues relating to sizes of living creatures, and the debate on biological scaling laws derived from a study of fractal geometry, are examined in detail.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2001
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