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Escaping social–ecological traps through ecological restoration and socioeconomic development in China's Loess Plateau

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 5, Issue 4, Page 1364-1379, August 2023., 2023
Abstract The social–ecological trap is an emerging concept that describes situations in which self‐reinforcing social and ecological feedbacks maintain or push a social–ecological system towards an undesirable state and threaten the sustainability of human societies.
Zhuangzhuang Wang   +5 more
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The domestic struggle for traditional medical knowledge rights

open access: yesDeveloping World Bioethics, Volume 23, Issue 1, Page 76-87, March 2023., 2023
Abstract In China, the local communities and various ethnic minorities still hold, sustain and develop traditional medicial knowledge (TMK), innovations, and practices within the original communities. TMK also has pharmaceutical option value, which has attracted interests in commercial use of TMK for pharmaceutical innovation in China.
Nan Xia
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Understanding Traditional Chinese Medicine to strengthen conservation outcomes

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 3, Issue 1, Page 115-128, February 2021., 2021
Abstract Numerous treatments in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) involve the use of wildlife products, including some that utilize ingredients derived from endangered flora and fauna. Demand for such endangered wildlife products in TCM can threaten the survival of species and pose serious challenges for conservation.
Hubert Cheung   +8 more
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Rewilding in the face of climate change

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 155-167, February 2021., 2021
Abstract Expansion of the global protected‐area network has been proposed as a strategy to address threats from accelerating climate change and species extinction. A key step in increasing the effectiveness of such expansion is understanding how novel threats to biodiversity from climate change alter concepts such as rewilding, which have underpinned ...
Carlos Carroll, Reed F. Noss
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Key n‐Gram Extractions and Analyses of Different Registers Based on Attention Network

open access: yesJournal of Applied Mathematics, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021
Key n -gram extraction can be seen as extracting n‐grams which can distinguish different registers. Keyword (as n = 1, 1‐gram is the keyword) extraction models are generally carried out from two aspects, the feature extraction and the model design.
Haiyan Wu   +5 more
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A Core Drug Discovery Framework from Large‐Scale Literature for Cold Pathogenic Disease Treatment in Traditional Chinese Medicine

open access: yesJournal of Healthcare Engineering, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021
Cold pathogenic disease is a widespread disease in traditional Chinese medicine, which includes influenza and respiratory infection associated with high incidence and mortality. Discovering effective core drugs in Chinese medicine prescriptions for treating the disease and reducing patients’ symptoms has attracted great interest.
Yun Zhang   +8 more
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Spatial composition and premise arrangement of traditional Manchu village in Northeast China

open access: yesJAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 3, Issue 3, Page 346-358, July 2020., 2020
Spatial composition has changed massively even also in Shengli Village, a traditional Manchu village, because of the land and agricultural policies carried out by the government after the foundation of People's Republic of China. Especially according to the political compactification of residential area executed in the late 1960's, farmland behind the ...
Akira Ushijima   +3 more
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Some Insects Are More Equal Than Others: A Comparison of Popular Large Language Model Chatbots' Treatment of Different Insect Groups 昆虫间的不平等——主流大语言模型 (LLM) 对不同昆虫评价的比较研究

open access: yesIntegrative Conservation, Volume 4, Issue 2, Page 254-267, June 2025.
Our research demonstrates that in mirroring prevailing human biases towards different insect groups, LLM chatbots oversimplify insect diversity by predominantly restricting “bees” to honeybees and “wasps” to yellowjackets, neglecting the majority of biodiversity that includes wild bees and parasitoid wasps, while also favouring Nearctic species in ...
Marina Moser   +2 more
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Threats to biodiversity from cumulative human impacts in one of North America's last wildlife frontiers

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 672-684, June 2018., 2018
Abstract Land‐use change is the largest proximate threat to biodiversity yet remains one of the most complex to manage. In British Columbia (BC), where large mammals roam extensive tracts of intact habitat, continued land‐use development is of global concern.
Nancy Shackelford   +3 more
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The Primate Name Yòu (狖) and Its Referents: Implications for the Future Conservation of François' Langurs in China 灵长类动物名称“狖”及其指代对象再钩沉: 对中国黑叶猴 (Trachypithecus francoisi) 未来保护的启迪

open access: yesIntegrative Conservation, Volume 4, Issue 2, Page 246-253, June 2025.
After the great Chinese poet Qu Yuan (屈原) was exiled to Xupu (溆浦) county in Hu' nan province, he described the forest there as follows: “mysterious is the deep forest, the place where Yuán yòu dwell (深林杳以冥冥兮,乃猿狖之所居).” What is the referent of the name Yuán yòu in this sentence?
Kefeng Niu
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