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Public Engagement Provides First Insights on Po Plain Ant Communities and Reveals the Ubiquity of the Cryptic Species Tetramorium immigrans (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

open access: yesInsects, 2020
Ants are considered a useful model for biodiversity monitoring and several of their characteristics make them promising for citizen science (CS) projects.
Cristina Castracani   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of an ice-jam flood forecasting modelling framework for freeze-up/winter breakup

open access: yesHydrology Research, 2023
River ice-jams can create severe flooding along many rivers in cold regions. While ice-jams often form during the spring breakup, the mid-winter breakup can cause ice-jamming and flooding.
Apurba Das   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating the impacts of green spaces planning on social sustainability improvement in Tehran, Iran: a SWOT-AHP analysis

open access: yesLocal Environment : the International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, 2023
Green spaces are foundational to urban social sustainability and solidarity since they are accessible to all citizens without discrimination or restriction.
Mahla Tayefi Nasrabadi   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Historical drought patterns over Canada and their teleconnections with large-scale climate signals [PDF]

open access: yesHydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2018
Drought is a recurring extreme climate event and among the most costly natural disasters in the world. This is particularly true over Canada, where drought is both a frequent and damaging phenomenon with impacts on regional water resources ...
Z. E. Asong   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optimizing Energy Use, Cost and Carbon Emission through Building Information Modelling and a Sustainability Approach: A Case-Study of a Hospital Building

open access: yesSustainability, 2021
The construction industry (CI) has a significant impact on the environment and on climate change due to the emission of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. Globally accepted Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), specifically SDG 7 (Access to Affordable,
S. Khahro   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Inter-comparison of daily precipitation products for large-scale hydro-climatic applications over Canada [PDF]

open access: yesHydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2017
A number of global and regional gridded climate products based on multiple data sources are available that can potentially provide reliable estimates of precipitation for climate and hydrological studies.
J. S. Wong   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do It by Yourself: Larval Locomotion in the Black Soldier Fly Hermetia illucens, with a Novel “Self-Harvesting” Method to Separate Prepupae

open access: yesInsects, 2022
The neotropical insect Hermetia illucens has become a cosmopolite species, and it is considered a highly promising insect in circular and sustainable economic processes.
Daniele Giannetti   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Introduction of Green Finance: A Curse or a Benefit to Environmental Sustainability?

open access: yesEnergy RESEARCH LETTERS, 2021
In this study, we examine the role of green finance in achieving a sustainable environment for 11 of the top countries in terms of investment in environmental protection from 2006 to 2017.
A. Zakari, Irfan Khan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

New Tools for Conservation Biological Control: Testing Ant-Attracting Artificial Nectaries to Employ Ants as Plant Defenders

open access: yesInsects, 2020
Knowledge of the role of ants in many agroecosystems is relatively scarce, and in temperate regions the possibility to exploit ants as biocontrol agents for crop protection is still largely unexplored. Drawing inspiration from mutualistic ant−plant
Enrico Schifani   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

How design concepts influence carbon footprints of load bearing structures

open access: yesActa Polytechnica CTU Proceedings, 2022
In recent years, it has become essential to consider the total carbon footprint of a construction project. Commonly, the question has been: ’What is the best material to be used in this context?’ In this paper we argue that this question is incomplete ...
Anne Rønning   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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