New Plants for Florida: Tropical Fruit by Alan H. Chambers, Jonathan H. Crane, Richard L. Jones, Mary Duryea, Berry J. Treat

“… Florida tropical fruit industry acreage has fluctuated during the past 70 years due to natural disasters, foreign competition and changes in the U.S. demographics. …”
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Soil, Water and Land Use: III. Wetlands by Nancy Johnson

“…Through better understanding of wetlands, students will be able to make more responsible and informed decisions about these natural resources. This information was produced jointly by the Soil and Water Science Department and the 4-H Youth Development Program. …”
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Peach Brown Rot by Ali Sarkhosh, Shirin Shahkoomahally, Logan Marie Richmond-Cosie, Philip Harmon

“…Fruit susceptibility fluctuates with the various stages of development; mature fruits are highly susceptible to disease, and fruit infection has the greatest impact on production. …”
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Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus sulphureus species complex) by Brianna Benitez, Claudia Paez, Matthew Smith, Jason A. Smith

“…Several Laetiporus species have been harvested to use as food colorants, to dye natural products such as wool, and for human consumption. …”
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The learning environment as a space for changes by Jolanta Nowak

“…This demands a personalized approach to the teaching/learning process, the consideration of new spaces serving to gain information and experiences, as well as making use of the dialogical nature of man to create a learning community. The child cannot be a background for teachers’ actions but an authentic real creator of his/her development. …”
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Narrative preaching - yet another perspective by J. J. van Rensburg

“…This article endeavours to stimulate further interest on an academic level by researching certain problems necessitating a warning against indulgence of narrative preaching without understanding its nature and challenges. The wrong approach may cause an abuse of narratives and a resistance against any attempt to communicate the gospel in this manner. …”
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Managing Whiteflies on Landscape Ornamentals by Eileen A. Buss, Catherine M. Mannion, Lance S. Osborne, Adam G. Dale

“…This 8-page fact sheet describes whitefly species, their identification and biology, the damage they cause, and best management practices to control them and still maintain healthy populations of natural enemies and other beneficial insects. …”
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Wildland-Urban Interface: Key Issues by Leslie Annie Hermansen-Baez, Jennifer Seitz, Martha C. Monroe

“…A result of the influx of new residents to the South is an expansion of urban areas into forests and other natural areas, creating areas referred to as the wildland-urban interface. …”
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Sistemas de Soporte de Decisión Espacial para Evaluaciones Ecológicas de Paisaje en el Estudio de Viabilidad del Suroeste de la Florida by Leonard Pearlstine, Donald L. DeAngelis, Frank Mazzotti, Tomma Barnes, Michael Duever, Janet Starnes, Marianna D. Conill

“…This publication describes the computer-based tools used for natural resource management that tightly integrate decision theory models with ecological models and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). …”
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Preventing Foodborne and Non-foodborne Illness: Vibrio parahaemolyticus by Anita C. Wright, Renée M. Goodrich-Schneider, Michael A. Hubbard, Keith R. Schneider

“…Schneider, describes this bacterium that occurs naturally in coastal waters throughout the world and is linked to illnesses associated with consumption of raw or improperly cooked seafood — type of illness, who is at risk of infection, how common infections are, how they occur, how to receive and store seafood and shellfish, and methods to prevent infection in high-risk individuals. …”
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Floridians’ Perceptions of Endangered Species by Mary Hannah Miller, Nicole M. W. Dodds, Alexa J. Lamm

“… In July 2014, the UF/IFAS Center for Public Issues Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources (PIE Center) initiated a study to explore the attitudes, perceptions, opinions, and knowledge of Floridians on endangered and invasive species. …”
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Multifunctionality of digestive system periodic activity (an age after discovery) by G. F. Korotko

“…Periodic activity of digestive system is one of 90-minute biorhythms of body of humans and animals in which motor and secretory functions of digestive organs and many parameters of other physiological systems change in natural pattern. The review presents main morphofunctional advances and chronology of their experimental and clinical establishment, of multifunctional role of digestive system periodic activity.Conclusion. …”
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Food Safety on the Farm – An Overview of Good Agricultural Practices by Renée M. Goodrich-Schneider, Keith R. Schneider, Douglas L. Archer

“…This document gives a basic overview of the eight topics (water, manure and biosolids, worker health and hygiene, sanitary facilities, field sanitation, packing facilities, transportation, and traceback) that will be covered in detail in this series. …”
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Competition between poly-, pluri- and multi- in official French neologisms by Jan Holeš

“…With regard to the distribution of terms according to the domains, the natural and technical sciences dominate over the social sciences. …”
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HOABINHIAN IN VIETNAM AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES FROM 20,000 TO 7,000 YEARS BP by Khac Su Nguyen

“…The research results have identified a number of key economic characteristics of Hoa Binh cultural residents and evaluated the effectiveness of human methods of finding and gathering food under the fluctuations of the natural environment during the late Pleistocene to early Holocene in northern Vietnam. …”
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Tributary by James Davoll, Paul Dolan, Pete Howson

“…Tributary is an experimental ethnographic film that traces the movement and harnessing of natural resources within the Icelandic landscape to support our digital lives. …”
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"Garden of Eden" or "Paradise of delight"? The Septuagint's rendering of ??? in the book of Genesis by H. Ausloos

“…as a toponym; on the other hand, in his word choice, it appears that the author aimed to characterise the specific nature of the “Eden” as a place of plenty and wealth. …”
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W.E.B Du Bois and the Place of African American Youth in Histories of Environmental Thought. by Katie Taylor

“…I finish by offering a case study of my research on the children’s magazine of W.E.B Du Bois, The Brownies’ Book and its representations of Black children’s relationships to the outdoors and nature.…”
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Lawn Caterpillars by Eileen A. Buss, Robert Meagher

“…This creates a ragged appearance (Figure 1) that may be hard to notice at first. Mature caterpillars eat a lot before they pupate and consume patches of turfgrass down to the crown. …”
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Mosquito-transmitted Highlands J virus in Florida by C. Roxanne Rutledge-Connelly

“… Highlands J virus (HJ) is a mosquito-transmitted alphavirus that is similar to eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEE) in its natural cycle; it is transmitted from Culiseta melanura mosquitoes to songbirds in freshwater swamps. …”
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