• Urbanization Altered Bacterial and Archaeal Composition in Tidal Freshwater Wetlands Near Washington DC, USA, and Buenos Aires, Argentina 

  Gonzalez Mateu, Martina; Park, Cedric Evan; McAskill, Cullen Patrick; Baldwin, Andrew H.; Yarwood, Stephanie A. (MDPI, 2019-03-06)

  Urban expansion causes coastal wetland loss, and environmental stressors associated with development can lead to wetland degradation and loss of ecosystem services. This study investigated the effect of urbanization on ...

• A Study of Resistance to the Sweet Potato Wilt Pathogen, Fusarium oxysporum Schlecht f. batatis (Wr.) Snyder & Hansen, and of Histological Aspects of the Host-pathogen Complex 

  Wells, John Milton (1963)

  Research on Fusarium wilt of sweet potato, a vascular disease caused by Fusarium oxysporum Schlecht f. batatis (Wr.) Snyder & Hansen, was undertaken to determine the susceptibility of various sweet potato lines to ...

• BLOOM BIOSOLIDS: WHAT IS THEIR MICROBIAL COMMUNITY AND HOW DO THEY AFFECT SOIL AND PLANT HEALTH? 

  Baballari, Eni (2019)

  Biosolids are rich in nutrients and organic matter, and are known to improve and maintain productive soils and stimulate plant growth. D.C. Water’s new Class A biosolids product, Bloom, was evaluated for its impact on plant ...

• Nitrogen cycling by grass-brassica mixtures in the Mid-Atlantic 

  Gaimaro, Joshua Ruben (2019)

  Mixtures of cover crop species may be more effective than monocultures at internal nutrient cycling due to their ability to occupy different niches. Our study investigates nitrogen (N) cycling of radish (Raphanus sativus ...

• CASH, TRAINING OR COMMITMENT? EVIDENCE ON BEHAVIORAL AND FINANCIAL INTERVENTIONS FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 

  Bin Bakhtiar, Mohammed Mehrab (2019)

  This dissertation analyzes how poor households in Africa and South Asia respond to large-scale policy experiments involving conditional and unconditional cash transfers as well as interventions that have training and ...

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