Marking First Thinnings in Pine Plantations: Potential for Increased Economic Returns by Byron Love, Michael G. Andreu, Chris Demers

“…The greater number of high-quality and faster-growing trees remaining after a marked thinning is the main reason for immediate and future increases in value. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fr410 …”
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Preparing for and Recovering from Hurricane and Tropical Storm Damage to Tropical Fruit Groves in Florida by Jonathan H. Crane, Carlos F. Balerdi

“…As with the aftermath of previous hurricanes, growers are currently assessing their options, such as replanting, rehabilitating damaged trees, and repairing equipment and irrigation systems. …”
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Securing Bird Feeders from Florida Black Bears by Ethan T. Noel, Elizabeth F. Pienaar

“…Bears are excellent climbers and can access bird feeders that are suspended from trees. This 3-page fact sheet explains how to secure bird seed from bears so that they don’t become reliant on human food sources, a condition that puts them at greater risk of being killed from vehicle collisions, illegal shooting, or euthanasia. …”
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Bio-based Products from Biomass by Zhaohui Tong, Letian Wang, Clay B. Olson

“…Biomass is renewable biological materials, such as trees, plants, grasses, vegetables, algae, food wastes, animal manures, and other organic wastes. …”
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Improving Weed Control in Landscape Planting Beds by Chris Marble, Andrew Koeser

“… Because landscape beds often contain a variety of ornamental plants, shrubs, and trees, using herbicides to control weeds in these areas can be challenging; however, non-herbicidal methods can be labor intensive. …”
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Spondias Growing in the Florida Home Landscape by Jonathan H. Crane, Jeff Wasielewski

“… Spondias species (whose common names among English speakers include ambarella, Ataheite apple, mombins, and hog plums) are flowering trees native to tropical and subtropical regions. …”
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Asian Horntail Eriotremex formosanus (Matsumura) (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Siricidae: Tremicinae) by You Li, Jiri Hulcr

“…It is not considered an economically important pest because it only attacks dying or dead trees, but the species may someday prove to be a pest and its ecological impacts in North American forests remain unknown. …”
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Cottonwood Leaf Beetle Chrysomela scripta Fabricius (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomela) by Amelio A. Chi, Russell F. Mizell

“…Often it is a severe pest of urban ornamental trees. This leaf feeder has several generations each year, may cause extensive leaf loss, and can consequently reduce stem volume up to 70%. …”
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Crop Considerations for Citrus Lands by Stephen H. Futch, Brent A. Sellers

“…Sellers, discusses herbicide residues on citrus land where the trees have been removed due to citrus canker, and issues to address before the acreage can be converted to other agricultural uses. …”
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2019–2020 Citrus Pest Management Guide: Crop Insurance Policies Available to Citrus Growers by Ariel Singerman

“…Some policies offer coverage for trees, others for production, and others for farm revenue. …”
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Bagworm, Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis Haworth (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Psychidae) by Brooke L. Moffis, Steven P. Arthurs

“…North American bagworm can feed on over 50 families of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs. Severe infestations can damage the aesthetics and health of host plants, especially juniper and arborvitae species. …”
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Caribbean Crazy Ant (proposed common name), Paratrechina pubens Forel (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) by John Warner, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn

“…Thick foraging trails with thousands of ants occur along sidewalks, around buildings, and on trees and shrubs. Pest control operators using liquid and/or granular broad-range insecticides appear unable to control this nuisance ant. …”
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Sap Beetles (of Florida), Nitidulidae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) by Lisa Myers

“… Most species of sap beetles are attracted to the wounds of trees where they feed on sap. However, the habits of the Nitidulidae are quite variable (Parsons 1943). …”
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Tropical and Subtropical Fruit Propagation by Jeff Wasielewski, Carlos F. Balerdi

“…While sexual propagation (by seed) results in plants that are not genetically the same as the mother plant, asexual propagation (cuttings, division, air-layers, and grafting) creates offspring that are clones of the mother plant. Cloning fruit trees is important because it allows different cultivars to be preserved over time. …”
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Frost Protection Irrigation for Florida Peaches: Economic Considerations by Tori Bradley, Tatiana Borisova, Mercy Olmstead

“…This 7-page fact sheet describes a strategy for limiting water use for frost protection of peach trees in the winter to reduce producers’ costs, protect lakes and streams, and reinforce the public image of farmers as innovators and environmental stewards. …”
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Directory of Certified Deciduous Fruit and Nut Crop Nurseries in Florida by Peter C. Andersen, Robert C. Hochmuth, Sean R. McCoy, Lei Lani L. Davis

“…The nurseries listed in Table 1 offer fruit and nut trees and are listed as certified nurseries with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. …”
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Ecological corridor design for ecoclimatic regulation: Species as eco-engineers by Lirong Wu, Matteo Convertino

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HSRoadNet: Hard-Swish Activation Function and Improved Squeeze–Excitation Module Network for Road Extraction Using Satellite Remote Sensing Imagery by Xunqiang Gong, Yingjie Ma, Ailong Ma, Zhaoyang Hou, Meng Zhang, Yanfei Zhong

“…To prevent failed extraction of heterogeneous regions, fracture of extracted roads and others resulted from vehicles and trees when using very high resolution remote sensing images; a remote sensing image road extraction method based on Hard-Swish Squeeze–Excitation RoadNet is proposed in this article. …”
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Phytophthora Identification and Sampling in Citrus Nurseries by Jamie D. Burrow, Diane B. Bright, Tim D. Riley, Evan G. Johnson, James H. Graham

“… Phytophthora species are important soilborne, fungus-like pathogens that attack the root systems, trunk, and fruit of citrus trees at any age. The front of this identification sheet includes images of healthy and infested roots and descriptions of leaf and root symptoms. …”
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THE ECO-MAGNETIC TRAIN by Ana-Maria PĂTRĂȘCOIU

“…The present work describes a montage that contains a landscape decoration, an eco system, (trees, grass, water, sand) in which an eco-magnetic toy train, with propulsion, raised from the ground, without friction, at high speed, due to the lack of frictional force. …”
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