The meters were constructed on site and installed onto the stem or branch sections of field growing plants in an experiment originally designed to study the effects of plant population density and drought on the productivity and water use of young tea clones.
The world's leading expert on ants and a consummate naturalist, he brilliantly compiles research data from a broad cross-section of fields to produce pictures of the innate complexity of life.
The river looked like a wide section of field that had somehow broken free, that had, for unknown reasons, been set in motion.
He went over steps he had taken to improve food safety, including creating a tracking system that linked every head of lettuce he sold to the section of field where it was grown and doing yearly tests of irrigation water for dangerous bacteria.
Additional file 1: Appendix 1 shows a short section of field notes to illustrate the data collection format (please note that it has been edited to remove all identifiable, and commercially sensitive information).
"Whatever they're giving the animal is probably killing anything that would have killed that infestation," said Algiere, who uses no antibiotics and often lets his chickens freely roam sections of his fields.
Scenarios considered in the analyses included: (i) each field separately, (ii) both fields together, and (iii) northern and southern sections of the field in Silstrup.
Sarah Gustafson creates her small collage abstractions by synthesizing various sections of Color Field or gestural monoprints.
He remembers the days when the tricks of the trade (sections of the field left intentionally soft, to slow opponents) were not, as he puts it, a lost art.
